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Practice Areas

• Automobile Accidents
• Birth Injury
• Medical Malpractice
• Nursing Home Abuse
• Nursing Home Negligence
• Personal Injury
• Product Liability
• Wrongful Death

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You Deserve a Specialist

Your legal matter is not ordinary. Size can be an asset for some businesses, but it is overrated for purposes of choosing a personal injury law firm. And just as you wouldn't go to your family doctor for cancer treatment, you need a personal injury lawyer in Maine with personal injury trial experience. How many times have injured people like you gone to a large law firm and been overcharged and under-served by someone who does not know you, or care about you and your problems?

Our Personal Injury Attorneys Have The Experience You Need

The personal injury attorneys at Briggs & Counsel specialize in helping people who are injured. Our attorneys get to know you, work hard at understanding your particular injury, your legal needs and earning your trust. We have been doing this for twenty years and more. Like you, our clients are severely injured people in Maine whose lives has been disrupted through no fault of their own. Our clients look to us to solve problems beyond their resources or expertise. We understand the financial hardship and the emotions involved when facing threatening health issues and attack them with logic and confidence that only years and variety of experience can provide.

We Handle Cases In Maine Statewide

Briggs & Counsel is centrally based in the Midcoast, which allows us to handle cases throughout the entire State of Maine. We take advantage of our location to do just that. We meet clients in designated offices everywhere from Portland to Bangor, Augusta, Lewiston, Rockport and everywhere in-between. We practice in every courthouse and see clients in every area of the state, including Houlton, Presque Isle, Bath, Belfast, Ellsworth, Topsham, Rockland, Rumford, Bethel, Bridgeton, Wiscassett, Alfred, Brunswick, Machias, York and Freeport. Some of our clients are so badly hurt that they cannot travel. When that happens, we meet severely injured clients in their homes.

Don Briggs has been in practice for more than 25 years and has been practicing in mid-coast Maine since 1988. He is a board certified civil trial lawyer, a status held by less than 1 percent of Maine's lawyers, and an honors graduate of Suffolk University Law School. Mr. Briggs is also a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Past President of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association.

Alison Mynick has practiced personal injury law for more than 15 years.  Alison is on the Board of Governors of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association, and has participated in multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements on behalf of patients and their families, drawing on her past experience as a Registered Nurse. Her experience gives Briggs & Counsel's clients the advantage in litigating  the seriousness of their injuries from medical malpractice and other personal injury negligence cases.

Don Briggs and Alison Mynick with American Association for Justice President, Kathleen Flynn Peterson.

Ms. Peterson,one of the nation's top litigators in the field of medical malpractice, was elected President of AAJ for 2007-2008.

Ms. Peterson was chosen to lead the 52,000-member organization, the world's largest trial bar, during AAJ's annual convention in Chicago this past July.