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Your Situation Is Unique. So Is Our Experience.
Real Results for Real People
When You Need to Win, We Won’t Stop Fighting for You
The Maine attorneys at Shaheen & Gordon, P.A. will approach your case with a resolve to help you reach solutions that matter. We’ll work with you to develop a personalized strategy that charts a path toward the possibility of achieving the best possible outcomes for your legal matter.
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Trucking Accident Causing Death Settlement $15 Million
$15 Million settlement in trucking accident causing death
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Wrongful Death Auto Accident $6 Million
Settlement in an auto accident that led to wrongful death.
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Auto Accident Led to Wrongful Death $2.8 Million
Settlement in an auto accident that led to wrongful death.
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Settlement in Wrongful Death Lawsuit $2 Million
D. Michael Noonan represented the parents of Jacob Goulet, a teen who died after being swept away in a storm drain, in a wrongful death case against the city of Nashua.
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Pedestrian Run Over by Tractor Trailer Truck $1.7 Million
Pedestrian injured by tractor trailer truck making illegal U-turn received a settlement of $1,700,000.00 as compensation.
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Settlement for Second-Floor Fall Victim $1.5 Million
A young man was injured in fall from unsafe second-floor sliding door received a settlement of $1,500,000.00 as compensation.
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Car Strikes & Injures Motorcycle Passenger $1.25 Million
Car runs a stop sign and strikes motorcycle on which plaintiff is riding as a passenger causing serious, permanent injuries.
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Motorcycle Passenger Struck by Car & Injured $1.25 Million
Woman passenger on a motorcycle injured in a car crash received $1,250,000.00 as compensation.
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Motorcyclist Killed in Collision With Automobile $1.25 Million
Family receives $1,250,000.00 in compensation in wrongful death claim.
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Settlement of Estate of Worker Killed by Electrocution $1.225 Million
Settlement was pieced together from four defendants, following the electrocution of a lineman for a cable construction company.

Our Clients Come First. Always.
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Creative & Cost-Effective Legal Solutions
With a large team of experienced Maine attorneys, our firm is able to pool resources and the extensive experience of award-winning legal minds for the benefit of our clients. Whether you are in need of legal representation following an injury, criminal arrest, or marital separation, or if you require top-tier solutions to your business, government, or health care needs, our firm is prepared to deliver the creative solutions needed to resolve your unique legal problem as swiftly and successfully as possible. Our firm's culture is unique because we take a team-oriented approach to addressing our clients' legal concerns. From board rooms to courtrooms, our lawyers in Maine blend tenacity and creativity to secure the best possible results. This wouldn’t be possible without the extensive experience and innovation of a truly gifted team.
Serving Maine & Northern New England
For decades, Shaheen & Gordon, P.A. has provided exceptional full-service legal representation to individual and institutional clients in a wide range of practice areas. As a result of our commitment to the families, communities, and companies we serve, we have established ourselves as one of the premier and fastest-growing law firms in Maine and Northern New England. Clients small and large throughout the region are confident about trusting their cases to our caring and capable team. From simple tasks to complicated cases, our award-winning Maine lawyers pride themselves on client satisfaction by focusing on personalized service, cost-effective strategies, and result-oriented problem solving. Clients throughout the state continually place their trust in our firm.
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We can’t change what happened, but we will do everything in our power to get you the justice you deserve. Our experienced legal team will go to the mat to make things right for you, supported by the resources they need to succeed.

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Meet Our Attorneys
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Attorney ProfilesAt Shaheen & Gordon, we have assembled a team of exceptional legal professionals who care about the lives and businesses they protect. Our award-winning attorneys are committed to being the advocates that our clients deserve when they are faced with legal challenges. Equipped with an unwavering determination to succeed and the experience to handle any roadblock, our attorneys will do everything in their power to protect what's important to you. We invite you to take the opportunity to get to know our attorneys by browsing their profiles.
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William H. Shaheen
Senior Counsel
A native of Dover New Hampshire, Bill has been practicing law throughout the State of New Hampshire for the last forty-six (46) years. In that forty-six years, he’s had many challenging and rewarding achievements. He first started practicing in 1973 with a retired judge. The practice focused primarily on civil litigation. -
Steven M. Gordon
Senior Counsel
Steve is one of the founders of the firm having first come to New Hampshire as law clerk to Federal Judge Hugh H. Bownes and then working as a federal prosecutor when Bill Shaheen was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Hampshire. He has an active and extensive trial practice, representing individuals and businesses in complex litigation in both state and federal courts. -
D. Michael Noonan
Partner
Michael is the President and Managing Director of Shaheen and Gordon, P.A. He has been practicing law in New Hampshire since 1990 and is also a member of the bar and handles cases in Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont. Michael's practice is now concentrated on the representation of victims and their families in serious personal injury and wrongful death cases.
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Sean T. O'Connell
Partner
With more than 20 years’ experience providing legal services, he helps his clients manage the life and health of their businesses, including purchase and sales, acquisition, entity selection and creation as well as corporate dissolution, drafting, defending and challenging non-compete, and other restrictive covenants. -
Jared P. O'Connor
Partner
Jared has spent his legal career fighting insurance companies and moneyed interests on behalf of injured workers, the middle class, veterans, the disadvantaged and the disabled. He has successfully secured Social Security Disability, Medicare, Medicaid, and private disability benefits for his clients while fighting for them at the Labor Department and beyond.
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William E. Christie
Partner
Bill is the Chair of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group and concentrates in the areas of federal and state criminal defense, complex civil litigation, health care law, and election law. Bill has successfully litigated claims against the State of New Hampshire in the areas of Election Law and First Amendment Law.
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Timothy M. Harrington
Partner
Tim is a partner at Shaheen & Gordon and Co-Chair of the firm’s Criminal Defense Practice Group. A respected trial lawyer with over 24 years of experience, Tim focuses his practice on state and federal criminal defense, complex civil litigation, and family law. He has an exceptional ability to help clients favorably resolve their legal problems, both in and out of the courtroom. -
James D. Rosenberg
Partner
Jim is a Partner at Shaheen & Gordon, P.A. and the Chair of its Criminal Defense Practice Group. A native of Concord, New Hampshire, Jim brings substantial courtroom experience to Shaheen & Gordon’s litigation team, focusing his practice in the areas of criminal defense, white-collar defense and DWI / DUI defense.
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Christine M. Craig
Partner
Christine brings substantial experience to Shaheen & Gordon’s Litigation Team, focusing her practice on personal injury and consumer protection litigation. Clients rely on her history of success with plaintiffs’ litigation in New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. Since joining the firm in 1998, Christine has successfully litigated and/or resolved a variety of personal injury cases.
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Francis G. Murphy
Partner
Francis G. Murphy is a highly-skilled attorney with over 30 years of experience practicing law. Francis has successfully represented clients in diverse areas of civil litigation, including cases involving truck, car and motorcycle accidents, workplace injuries, employment discrimination, and more.
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Tracey Goyette Cote
Partner
Tracey provides creative, tenacious, and compassionate representation to individual clients needing assistance with issues relating to divorce and family law. Tracey serves on the Management Committee for Shaheen & Gordon and is the Chair of the Domestic Relations Practice Group.
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Benjamin Siracusa Hillman
Partner
Ben practices in the interrelated areas of estate planning, probate litigation, and elder law (including Medicaid eligibility). He assists clients with simple and complex estate planning, focusing on the needs of the elderly, retirees and near-retirees, high net worth clients, clients with special needs, same-sex couples, and young families.
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Tim McLaughlin
Partner
A native of Laconia, Tim is a civil litigation attorney with a wide range of trial and appellate experience in the federal and state court systems as well as in arbitration and various regulatory agencies. Tim also has significant experience in cases involving potential criminal issues and frequently works with Shaheen & Gordon’s Criminal Defense group to resolve them.
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Alexander E. Spadinger
Partner
Alex’s practice is focused on litigation and trial work of all kinds in the courts of Maine and New Hampshire. Alex has a wide range of experience including representing individuals in complex personal injury matters, representing local businesses in litigation, and the defense of individuals facing criminal charges. There is no case too big, or too small, for Alex to handle.
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Faye R. Goldberg
Partner
Faye R. Goldberg’s practice focuses primarily in the area of family law, including divorce, legal separation, parenting rights and responsibilities and post-divorce matters. She began practicing law in 1986 at Casassa and Ryan in Hampton, New Hampshire where she continued to practice for the next 30 years. While there, Faye’s practice also focused on family law.
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Anthony Carr
Partner
Anthony is a member of our personal injury team. He concentrates his practice on representing individuals who have been seriously injured as a result of the neglect of others. Anthony often handles personal injury cases involving nursing home/elder abuse, asbestos/mesothelioma and other toxic torts, traumatic brain injury, products liability, and other catastrophic injuries.
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Brian M. Quirk
Partner
As a partner at Shaheen & Gordon, P.A., Brian focuses his practice on government investigations, white collar defense, civil ... -
Lauren Breda
Associate
Lauren Breda is a member of Shaheen and Gordon’s criminal defense group. A native of New Hampshire, Lauren has over a decade ... -
Brittani Schanstine
Associate
Brittani Schanstine works with clients in a range of practice areas, including personal injury, family law, employment and ... -
Karyn P. Forbes
Retired
A native of New Hampshire, Karyn conducts an active business and real estate development and litigation practice. She graduated from Rivier College in 1979 and received her J.D. from Franklin Pierce Law Center in 1983. She was admitted to the practice of law in 1983, and appears in both New Hampshire and Maine, state and federal courts.
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