Philip M Coffin

Practice Areas

-Litigation & Trial

-Professional Liability & Licensure

-Business & Commercial Disputes

-Health Care Litigation

-Product Liability, Toxic Torts, & Personal Injury Defense

Career

Phil is a seasoned trial attorney, having brought numerous cases to successful verdicts in both federal and state courts throughout Maine for nearly forty years.

His practice focuses on civil litigation with an emphasis on the defense of physicians, hospitals, nurses, and allied healthcare providers. Phil also represents physicians and other professionals in licensure investigations and applications and in related administrative proceedings. As a result of his considerable trial experience, Phil has been inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers.

Phil also has an active products liability defense practice and has successfully defended national companies as well as local retailers. Phil has served for many years as counsel to the Maine Chiefs of Police Association providing them with advice and representation as needed.

Phil is committed to active involvement in both professional and community organizations and has spoken at numerous seminars. In 1994, Phil was elected to the American Board of Trial Advocates, an organization that is committed to improving the ethical and practice standards of trial attorneys and preserving the right to trial by jury and the trial process and is past President of the Maine Chapter of ABOTA. He has also served on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court Committee on Professional Responsibility.

Professional Memberships

-Member, Cumberland County Bar Association

-Maine State Bar Association

-Defense Research Institute

-Maine Trial Lawyers Association

Public Service:

-Board Member, Maine Huts & Trails

-President, Village on the Green Association, Carrabassett Valley, ME

-Past Board Member and President of Bicycle Coalition of Maine

-Past Chair, Board of Directors of the Regional Transportation Program, Inc.

-Past Chair, Portland Chapter of the American Red Cross

-Past President, Maine Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates

-Past President, Tri-State Defense Lawyers Association

Personal

Phil and his wife, Susan Peck, also an attorney, have three grown daughters. They spend much of their free time in the Maine outdoors, skiing, bicycling, hiking, paddling, and gardening.