Melissa Hewey Email & Phone Number

I am a trial lawyer at Drummond Woodsum in Portland, Maine. I am listed in Best Lawyers in America in the categories of Labor and Employment Law, Education Law ,Municipal Litigation and Commercial Litigation and Chambers and Partners’ USA Guide, an independent guide to the top lawyers in the United States, under the categories of Employment Defense and Commercial Litigation. I was also selected by New England Super Lawyers as one of the top 100 attorneys in New England, by Benchmark as one of the top 250 female attorneys in the United States and I was the first woman in the State of Maine to be inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers.I focus my practice on employment law, school and higher education law, insurance defense and general civil litigation. Although being in the courtroom -- primarily in the state and federal courts in Maine and New Hampshire -- is what I love best, I spend a fair amount of time, through counselling and training, helping my clients stay out of court.I am also deeply committed to proving pro bono services to those in need. I am on the pro bono panel of the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project where I represent applicants for asylum before the U.S. Immigration Court. I also provide pro bono representation through the Maine Equal Justice Project and serve clients through Maine’s Volunteer Lawyers Project.Specialties: Trial, labor and employment, school law, commercial litigation, employment investigations, training

Listed skills include Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Trials, Litigation, and 20 others.

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  Trial Lawyer

  Drummond Woodsum

  Sep 1987 - Present