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Francis Jackson
South Portland, ME Lawyer
Personal Injury and Social Security Disability
Before launching Jackson & MacNichol, Jack practiced general civil and criminal litigation, including employee benefits and personal injury cases. “We narrowed it down to doing Social Security disability cases,” Jack says. “I decided it was something I enjoyed, and I was good at it.” After he had established his Social Security disability practice, a change in federal legislation allowed Jack to expand the firm’s practice areas to include representation of veterans seeking disability benefits. “It’s nice to give back to people who served our country, and it’s an area where people need enormous help and support,” he says. In addition...
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Jordan Lee Zoretic
South Portland, ME Attorney with 7 years of experience
(800) 524-3339
Ext. 3547
238 Western Ave.
South Portland, ME 04106
Appalachian School of Law and Charlotte School of Law
Jordan holds a J.D. from Appalachian School of Law with Pro Bono Honors, after transferring there from Charlotte School of Law. Prior to law school Jordan earned her B.S. in English Literature from Austin Peay State University located in her hometown of Clarksville, Tennessee. It was there, near the Fort Campbell military base, that her passion for the fair treatment of veterans was born.
While in law school Jordan was a student attorney for the immigration clinic, a student representative for LexisNexis, a research assistant for her criminal law professor, a summer intern at Gilles Law in Charlotte, North Carolina, and...
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Alexandra Jackson
South Portland, ME Lawyer with 7 years of experience
Elder, Estate Planning and Social Security Disability
University of Maine School of Law
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Donald Grey Lowry
South Portland, ME Attorney
Civil Rights, Personal Injury and Social Security Disability
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Kristian T.F. Terison
South Portland, ME Attorney with 11 years of experience
Social Security Disability
University of Maine - School of Law
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Jeffrey Buhrman
South Portland, ME Attorney
Business, Divorce, Elder and Estate Planning
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Tyler Charles Hadyniak
South Portland, ME Attorney with 5 years of experience
Administrative and Military
University of Maine School of Law
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Elizabeth Valentine
South Portland, ME Lawyer with 10 years of experience
238 Western Ave
South Portland, ME 04106
Administrative and Estate Planning
Elizabeth's practice is focused on administrative law and estate planning. More specifically, she represents social security disability claimants in administrative hearings and in federal court. She also works with clients to develop estate plans that reflect the clients' priorities and values.
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Marcus K Peterson
South Portland, ME Lawyer
Business, Employment, Estate Planning and Family
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William T. Bly
Portland, ME Attorney with 19 years of experience
Criminal Defense, Domestic Violence, Juvenile and White Collar Crime
University of Maine - School of Law
Prior to going back to college at the age of 27, I was a member of the US Army and served in Korea, Saudi Arabia and Ft. Banning, GA as a Cavalry Scout (19D). During my time in service I made my way up through the enlisted ranks and eventually applied to OCA where I was accepted and began officer training. Unfortunately, due a serious injury sustained prior to the final phase of the course, I was unable to complete my training and eventually left the US Army, receiving an Honorable Discharge for my service to this country.
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John S. Webb
Portland, ME Lawyer with 32 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Domestic Violence and Personal Injury
Vermont Law School
I was born and raised in Sanford, Maine. Later, I attended Maine Maritime Academy (1983 Engineering), and worked at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Design Division (Code 260) on nuclear aircraft carriers. Next, I attended Vermont Law School where I graduated with honors.
I have been practicing law in southern Maine since 1992 and am the founder and CEO of the Webb Law Firm. The Webb Law Firm is a litigation law firm, focusing on Criminal Defense, misdemeanor or felony, personal injury cases, in both state and federal courts.
In the field of criminal law, OUI-DUI is a subspecialty of our...
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Matthew A. Crockett
Portland, ME Attorney with 24 years of experience
Criminal Defense, Divorce and Family
DePaul College of Law
Maine Criminal Defense attorney, Litigator, Divorce and Family Law attorney Matthew A. Crockett is a Marine Corps Veteran, former military Judge and former state prosecutor with extensive trial experience as a criminal defense attorney and litigator. Matthew is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and a Combat Veteran of the Iraq war.
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Dylan R. Boyd
Portland, ME Lawyer with 14 years of experience
Free ConsultationDomestic Violence
University of Maine School of Law
Choosing the right lawyer will make a significant difference in both the experience and the outcome of your case. Dylan Boyd provides outstanding legal representation both inside and outside the courtroom. He has the experience and skill necessary to help you through your legal challenge and to achieve the best result possible in your case.
Whether you are charged with a crime, going through a family problem, or planning for the future, Dylan Boyd can help. He has defended clients against violations of their constitutional rights, wrongful criminal charges, and unjust punishments. He has counseled and advocated for clients in divorces...
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Peter Thompson
Portland, ME Attorney with 30 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
University of Maine - School of Law
Peter Thompson has specialized in personal injury, medical malpractice, and employment discrimination law for over 25 years and has successfully resolved thousands of cases for his clients. Peter is "AV Preeminent" rated by Martindale-Hubbell ©, a well-respected peer review organization that rates lawyers based on input from judges and other esteemed members of the legal community. An AV Preeminent rating is awarded to the most outstanding lawyers in a particular field of law and is the organization's highest possible rating. He has also been designated a New England "Super Lawyer"© from 2007 to the present and is listed in U.S....
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Catherine Miller
Portland, ME Attorney with 27 years of experience
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Divorce and Family
University of Maine School of Law
MillerAsen is a boutique law firm located in Portland, Maine. Our focus is on the legal needs of individuals, their families, and their businesses. With over fifty years of combined experience, our lawyers offer a customized and practical approach to protect the interests of our clients on legal matters that affect their families and businesses during times of change. Whether you are going through a divorce, need to plan for your future, or need help with your business or real estate plans, we tailor our legal services to offer strategic, creative, yet affordable, solutions. Our team is known...
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Regan A. Sweeney
Portland, ME Lawyer with 18 years of experience
Free ConsultationAdministrative, Business, Landlord Tenant and Real Estate
American University
I am a solo practitioner, based out of Portland, Maine, with a unique practice that is both local and international.
Locally, I represent and advise individuals and small businesses in a wide array of legal issues, including, but not limited to: landlord/tenant matters, real estate transfers, LLC and small business formation, and small business consulting.
Internationally, I provide legal advice and guidance to consumer product manufacturers, importers, distributors, and retailers, to ensure compliance with all applicable U.S. federal and state laws and regulations. As a former Trial Attorney with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, I represent companies in compliance and other...
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Elliott R. Teel
Portland, ME Attorney with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Estate Planning and Real Estate
UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
I provide legal services for individuals and small businesses throughout southern Maine. I offer legal analysis and litigation services on real property issues. I represent buyers and sellers in real estate transactions. For business owners I can assist with formation, contract and general consulting matters. For many matters I offer services at flat-rate pricing.
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Sebastian Okun
Portland, ME Lawyer with 11 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice and Personal Injury
University of Maine - School of Law
My practice is focused on representing individuals who have suffered serious injuries in Maine and New Hampshire. I have years of experience in advocating for clients who have endured both physical and emotional damages due to motor vehicle accidents and hazardous premises conditions. I am a skilled litigator and a zealous advocate, committed to securing the most favorable outcomes for my clients and the justice they rightfully deserve. My practice is devoted to making sure that my clients obtain fair and just compensation from insurance companies and liable parties.
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Chad Hansen
Portland, ME Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Employment and Workers' Comp
University of Colorado Law School
Chad represents employees in all manner of employee rights litigation including disability discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, sex discrimination, whistleblower retaliation, sexual harassment, medical leave violations, and failure to accommodate claims. He has both first chaired and second chaired employee rights cases to successful verdicts. Chad is listed in U.S. News "Best Lawyers in America"© directory (Employment Law - Individuals), the oldest and most highly-respected peer review guide in the legal profession.
After graduating from the University of Colorado School of Law, Chad worked for the National Organization for Women (“NOW”) National Judicial Education Program which educates the judiciary with regard...
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Adrienne Hansen
Portland, ME Attorney with 21 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Workers' Comp
University of Colorado Law School
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Mark Dunlap
Portland, ME Lawyer with 49 years of experience
Free ConsultationAsbestos, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Social Security Disability
University of Maine School of Law
Mark Dunlap has specialized in personal injury law for over 30 years. Mark has an “AV Preeminent” rating by Martindale-Hubbell, a well-respected peer review organization that rates lawyers based on input from judges and other esteemed members of the legal community. An AV Preeminent rating is awarded to the most outstanding lawyers in a particular field of law and is the organization's highest possible rating. Mark has also been listed in the U.S. News “Best Lawyers in America” directory since 2008 in the area of personal injury law. Having been lead counsel in over 125 jury trials in his career,...
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Luke Rioux
Portland, ME Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Free ConsultationAppeals, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Domestic Violence
University of Maine School of Law
I am a Criminal Defense Lawyer based in Portland, Maine. I defends clients charged with Operating Under the Influence (OUI), Drunk Driving, Operating After Suspension or Habitual Offender Revocation, Drug Possession and Trafficking, Marijuana Offenses, Assault, Sexual Offenses, Prostitution Charges, Probation Violations, Extradition Cases, and all other Criminal matters.
I Practice in State and Federal Court at the Trial and Appellate Level and handel cases throughout Cumberland, York and Androscoggin Counties.
While, I specialize in Criminal Defense, I work with seven other Lawyers at the FIrm, Fairfield & Associates. Other Attorneys there handel Family Law and divorce, Juvenile Criminal Defense, Personal Injury,...
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David Lourie
Cape Elizabeth, ME Lawyer with 49 years of experience
Free ConsultationAppeals, Municipal and Personal Injury
Boston College Law School
I have been Corporation Counsel for the City of Portland and other municipalities as well as private clients in land use and related real property, and civil liberties disputes.
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Matthew Govan
Portland, ME Lawyer
(207) 774-2414
97 India Street, 2nd Floor
PO Box 17647
Portland, ME 04112
Divorce and Family
University of Maine - School of Law
Attorney Matthew Govan is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of Maine School of Law, and University of Southern Maine at Portland. He most recently obtained his masterâs degree in Social Work at the University of Southern Maine at Portland in May 2012.
Attorney Govan enrolled in every course that the University of Maine School of Law offered at the time in the areas of family law and childrenâs advocacy. He and a fellow student created the curriculum for and led a class titled The Child, Family and State. After becoming a member of the Maine Bar...
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Joe Lewis
Portland, ME Lawyer with 13 years of experience
Free ConsultationAppeals, Divorce, Estate Planning and Family
University of Maine - School of Law
I graduated with honors from The University of Maine School of Law. My practice focuses primarily on three areas: Family Law, Estate Planning, and Appeals. I set up Port City Legal with the idea that a small law firm effectively serving the regular legal needs of regular people with intelligence ~and~ compassion could do very nicely here in Portland, ME. Six years later, the idea has proved true. Along the way, I have enjoyed many successes both in and out of the courtroom. My client reviews have been excellent. I've won five of...
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Lisa Butler
Portland, ME Lawyer with 31 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Workers' Comp
University of Maine School of Law
Lisa has practiced employment law for employees in Maine, Florida and Maryland for over 15 years. For more than a decade she worked with legal services in Maryland and Florida representing migrant farmworkers on employment conditions, wage, health and safety and worker exploitation issues. Since returning to Maine in 2008, Lisa has represented employees on civil rights cases, including discrimination, retaliation and whistleblower claims in State and Federal Courts. Reported decisions on cases which she with co-counsel litigated include Carmichael v. Verso Paper, 679 F. Supp. 2d 109 (D. Me. 2010) and Osher v. University of Maine...
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Martin Tartre
Portland, ME Attorney with 7 years of experience
Employment and Workers' Comp
University of Maine - School of Law
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Richard Smith Berne
Portland, ME Attorney with 50 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Domestic Violence and White Collar Crime
Boston University School of Law
PORTLAND MAINE CRIMINAL LAWYER & ATTORNEY
Mr. Berne has been practicing criminal law for over forty-two years. He received a B.S. degree from Harvard College, cum laude, in 1970 and his law degree from Boston University School of Law in 1974.
Prior to establishing his office in Portland, Maine, Mr. Berne served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York and the Northern District of California, where he prosecuted cases involving narcotics, bank fraud, and various white collar crimes. Upon leaving the Government in 1981, he entered private practice with a nationally prominent white collar defense firm...
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Nicholas Walsh
Portland, ME Attorney
(207) 772-2191
120 Exchange Street
P.O. Box 7206
Portland, ME 04112-7206
Free ConsultationBusiness, Maritime, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
A former Coast Guard Officer, commercial fisherman and merchant mariner, since 1988 Nicholas H. Walsh has used his practical knowledge to assist hundreds of New Englanders. The firm has two areas of emphasis: Jones Act work for injured sailors, and injuries occurring because of deficient medical or nursing care (medical malpractice).
The “Articles” section of the site nicholaswalsh.com contains useful information on these areas of the law. “From Injury to Judgment: Medical Malpractice Law in Maine” and “Where Does it Hurt: A Survey of Seaman’s Personal Injury Remedies” are just two useful articles. We suggest you review that material, and give...
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Sidney St. F. Thaxter
PORTLAND, ME Attorney with 52 years of experience
(207) 774-9000
Curtis Thaxter LLC
One Canal Plaza, Ste 1000
PORTLAND, ME 04101
Estate Planning
Boston College Law School
Sidney St. F. ("Pete") Thaxter is the chair of the firm's Litigation and Administrative Law and Estate Planning and Probate Practice Areas. For over 30 years, he has led the firm's litigation practice, which has focused on business disputes and property rights.
Pete also works with multiple generations of the firm's clients and their families to help them through their estate tax and business succession planning.
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Elizabeth Stout
Portland, ME Lawyer with 34 years of experience
Divorce and Family
University of Maine - School of Law
Elizabeth (Liz) Stout is the Executive Director, a mentor attorney, and a practicing attorney at the Maine Community Law Center, a non-profit law firm dedicated to increasing access to justice by providing low cost legal services to Mainers of modest means.
Liz received her law degree from the University of Maine School of Law and passed the Maine Bar in 1990. Since then, she has worked as an Assistant District Attorney, a business litigator, an Assistant Attorney General, and since 2002, as a family law attorney, guardian ad litem (GAL) and mediator.
Over the years, Liz has seen many families struggle...
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Elizabeth A. Kayatta
Portland, ME Lawyer with 12 years of experience
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Boston College Law School
Elizabeth Kayatta is an impassioned advocate for her clients with a track record of success in the courtroom. As a trial attorney at Berman & Simmons, she helps deliver justice for people who have suffered catastrophic and life-altering injuries. Her practice includes personal injury lawsuits arising out of medical errors, child sexual abuse, reckless driving, and dangerous premises.
Elizabeth has a reputation as a strategic and fearless advocate for her clients in medical malpractice cases. She takes on claims against medical providers and hospitals across Maine and Massachusetts. Her experience with handling complex healthcare negligence includes cases...
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Peter Clifford
Portland, ME Attorney with 33 years of experience
University of Maine School of Law
Pete has achieved Martindale Hubbell's highest independent Peer Review Rating, "AV- Preeminent," for both legal ability and ethical standards. He has been selected by his peers to inclusion in the publication "New England Super Lawyers," as one of the top 5% of attorneys in Maine. He has also been selected by his peers for inclusion in "Best Lawyers in America."
Pete has managed a statewide personal injury practice since 1991. In March, 2011, he completed his term as President of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association, which has more than 600 trial attorney members statewide. Pete handles wrongful death cases, personal injury...
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Michael Turndorf
Portland, ME Attorney with 32 years of experience
Free ConsultationLegal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Franklin Pierce Law Center
Highly experienced and highly rated trial attorney. Many jury trials and hearings under his belt. Practice areas include: personal injury, medical malpractice, products liability, criminal defense, family law and litigation.
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Nicole S. Williamson
Portland, ME Lawyer with 3 years of experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Domestic Violence
University of Maine School of Law
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Benjamin Rogoff Gideon
Portland, ME Lawyer with 24 years of experience
Free ConsultationMaritime, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Yale Law School
Ben grew up in Portland, Maine, attended public schools and graduated from Deering High School in 1989. Ben attended Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and earned his law degree from the Yale Law School.
Ben began his career in private practice at a large, multi-national law firm, Latham & Watkins, in New York City. He practiced there for several years before deciding to return to Maine to join Maine’s largest plaintiff’s law firm. In 2021, Ben left that firm and formed Gideon Asen LLC.
Over the past decade, no other plaintiff’s lawyer in Maine can match Ben’s level of success...
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Parke A Burmeister
Portland, ME Attorney with 14 years of experience
1 Union Street, Suite 501
Portland, ME 04101
Free ConsultationUniversity of Maine School of Law
As an estate, probate, and business attorney in Portland, Maine, I am proud to work with individuals, families, and business owners here in Portland, and across the state.
From drafting simple wills and trusts, to helping favorably resolve probate disputes, to business formations and contract negotiations, I strive to treat every client relationship as a partnership. My goal is to maintain a law practice that is easily approachable, immpeccably responsive, friendly, cost-conscious, and effective at helping clients reach their goals.
I earned my J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Maine School of Law in 2010, and my B.A....
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Misha C. Pride
Portland, ME Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness, Elder and Estate Planning
University of Maine School of Law
Misha is a passionate advocate for seniors and committed to providing excellent guidance and education for his clients and potential clients. To that end, Misha is available for house calls and often meets with clients in their homes. He has started his own networking group called the Maine Senior Education Collective, selecting the membership from other entrepreneurs who share his passion for helping seniors stay safe in their homes, or aiding them in the next transition in their lives. Misha went into the private practice of law in February of 2013 and spent his first two years establishing...