For the past two decades, Suzanne has represented longshore workers advocating for their rights under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Act. She has been particularly recognized by the National Asbestos/Mesothelioma Trial Lawyers Association and the Workers’ Injury Law & Advocacy Group for her representation of workers diagnosed with a disease related to their occupational exposure to asbestos products. In addition to workers’ compensation benefits, she has recovered substantial settlements for her clients and their family members especially shipyard and paper will workers against the manufacturers and suppliers of asbestos-related materials.

Suzanne also regularly appears at Social Security Disability hearings advising her clients from the initial round of social security disability filings through the hearing process.

In the decades of her legal career Suzanne has blended representing injured workers to secure the benefits they are entitled to, with their need for long range planning for their personal and family security. She has drafted hundreds of wills, administrated numerous probate estates and assisted as a financial fiduciary managing the probate and financial needs of her clients. She has been called to serve as Trustee of trusts created due to long term disability, or tax planning needs of her clients.

Since the inception of her career in Connecticut and Boston, Massachusetts Suzanne has experience working both with high net worth individuals and with working families. She has been approved as a FINRA Dispute Resolution Arbitrator for disputes arising against financial advisors and stockbrokers.

She resides in Brunswick, Maine with her husband, where they raised their children. When she is not advocating for her clients, she enjoys spending her time volunteering with several local non-profit organizations, exploring Maine’s coastline, and gardening.

Bar Admissions

•  State of Connecticut
• District of Columbia
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• State of Maine
• U.S. District Court, District of Maine
• First Circuit Court of Appeals

Education

Vanderbilt School of Law 

• Juris Doctor

Duke University

• Bachelor of Arts, cum laude

Honors and Awards

• National Trial Lawyers, Top 100 Trial Lawyers, 2014
• Nation’s Top 100 Injured Workers’ Attorneys, Workers’ Injury Law Group

Professional Associations

• National Elder Law Association, Member
• Workers Injury Law and Advocacy Group (WILG)
• Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, rostered arbitrator
• Maine Bar Association

Community Involvement

Current

• Restoration Advisory Board | Co-Chair

The Restoration Advisory Board meets three times a year and brings together members of the Navy, environmental contractors, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Environmental Protection, local towns, the Redevelopment Authority, developers and interested citizens to review the identification and remediation of Superfund sites located throughout the Naval Air Station Brunswick Maine. The Naval Air facility opened in 1951 and closed in 2011 at which time there were 21 identified Superfund sites on the property. Remediation efforts continue along with redevelopment. Current efforts include PFAS and stormwater contamination concerns along with existing remediation of other contaminant concerns.

• Brunswick Area Citizens for a Safe Environment (BACSE) | President    

BACSE is a 501c(3) organization formed to organize citizen involvement with the clean up efforts of Superfund sites at the former Naval Air Station Brunswick. The organization is a grant recipient of funds from the Environmental Protection Agency used to hire professional environmental engineers and hydrogeologists to advise the group on areas of concern regarding site specific contamination and clean up options. The principals of the organization represent individuals appointed from the stakeholder towns of Brunswick, Harpswell and Topsham.

Past

• Maine Board of Bar Overseers – Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection, Trustee
• College Guild, Board Member
• Lincoln County Bar Association, President
• Damariscotta River Association, President
• Medomak River Land Trust, Advisor
• Skidompha Library, Board Member
• Duke University, Alumni Admissions Volunteer