LEWISTON — New England Super Lawyers has named 10 Berman & Simmons attorneys to its 2018 directory, a Thomson Reuters publication that recognizes the top 5 percent of lawyers for individual excellence in their practice areas. Attorneys Michael Bigos, Benjamin Gideon, Daniel Kagan, Jodi Nofsinger, Steven Silin and Julian Sweet were recognized as “Super Lawyers” […]
berman
Posted inBusiness, Noteworthy, sj-web
Berman & Simmons hires Boots
LEWISTON — Berman & Simmons announces that attorney Christopher Boots has joined the firm. He will represent clients in personal injury cases from the firm’s Lewiston office. A native of North Yarmouth, Boots graduated from the University of Chicago in 2010 and earned his law degree in 2014 from Stanford Law School, where he was […]
advertisement
Posted inBusiness, sj-web
Attorney Kagan recognized
LEWISTON — Berman & Simmons recognizes the national leadership of one of its attorneys, Daniel Kagan, as he celebrates his 20th year as a governor for the American Association for Justice, the pre-eminent national organization for trial lawyers. Kagan is a native of Bangor who works at Berman & Simmons’ main office in Lewiston. A […]
Posted inBusiness, sj-web
Kayatta joins Berman & Simmons
LEWISTON — Attorney Elizabeth Kayatta has joined the Berman & Simmons law firm as of Dec. 1, working at its central office at 129 Lisbon St. She will represent plaintiffs in medical malpractice, personal injury, wrongful death and other civil litigation matters. Kayatta grew up in Cape Elizabeth. She attended Princeton University and graduated magna cum […]
Posted inBusiness, sj-web
Faunce appointed state delegate
LEWISTON — Washington, D.C.-based American Association for Justice has appointed attorney Susan Faunce of Berman & Simmons to serve as state delegate for Maine. Faunce will serve a three-year term. The announcement was made by attorney Daniel Kagan, also of Berman & Simmons, Maine’s senior governor for the AAJ. Faunce replaces Benjamin Gideon of Freeport, […]
Posted inBusiness
Gideon named to Ethics Commission
LEWISTON — Benjamin Gideon, a lawyer at Berman & Simmons law firm, has been appointed to the Professional Ethics Commission of the Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar. Gideon’s four-year term on the commission began Jan. 1 and will continue through 2020. A Portland native, Gideon is a graduate of Cornell University and Yale […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
C. Martin ‘Sonny’ Berman, longtime Lewiston attorney, remembered
LEWISTON — C. Martin “Sonny” Berman was remembered Monday as a “bridge” to the founders of the Berman & Simons law firm of Lewiston. The 87-year-old former attorney passed away at his home in Naples after a brief illness. “Martin was a bridge to the original brothers, Benjamin and David Berman, who founded the firm […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
New legal challenge filed by Lewiston firm against El Faro’s owner
LEWISTON (AP) — Local law firm Berman & Simmons is representing the families of two Maine sailors lost on a freighter that sank during a hurricane this year. The families are challenging the vessel owner’s attempt to limit financial responsibility. The legal challenge was filed Tuesday in Jacksonville, Fla., by the families of 34-year-old Danielle […]
Posted inBusiness
Bramley named managing director
LEWISTON — Attorney Craig Bramley of Cumberland has been named managing director at Berman & Simmons, a personal injury and medical malpractice law firm with offices in Lewiston, Portland and Bangor. He has served as acting managing director since January 2014. He joined the firm in 1996 and has been a partner since 2007. As […]
Posted inBusiness
Berman & Simmons: 100 years of law
LEWISTON — When Benjamin Berman opened his law office on Lisbon Street in 1914, his first clients were mill workers injured on the job, going through divorce or facing steep debts. He and his staff worked seven days a week, plus nights, “to be able to meet the workers as they got off their shifts […]