Experience

Mike assists hospitals and other providers on a wide variety of legal matters. He routinely assists clients with business transactions, including commercial leases, employment contracts, and service contracts. He is a member of the firm’s Certificate of Need team, assisting hospitals with CON applications and related matters, and also represents hospitals in reimbursement matters. He advises clients on general corporate matters, nonprofit governance, and medical staff issues.

The State of Maine regularly retains Mike to prepare state contracts and RFPs for health care services. Mike has substantial experience representing providers before state licensing and regulatory agencies and in judicial appeals of agency action. He has represented health care clients before the First Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States District Court for the District of Maine, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, and the Maine Superior Court. He also has considerable appellate experience, having argued more than 50 cases before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mike served as a Maine Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division and co-authored Maine’s treatise on criminal procedure, Maine Criminal Practice. He also has served as Associate Commissioner of the Maine Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services and as a consultant to numerous state agencies. He has written many legal articles, and has lectured at the University of Maine School of Law and at numerous legal seminars.

Honors & Distinctions

Mike is listed in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America for Health Care Law and Administrative Law and is also AV-rated by Martindale Hubbell.

Community Service

Mike is President of Augusta Trails.  He serves as a Director and is a former President of the Kennebec Valley YMCA.  He is a Director of the Friends of the Kennebec River Rail Trail.  He has served on served on the Lithgow Library Board of Directors, the Governing Board of the Capital Riverfront Improvement District, the Augusta Development Commission, and the Augusta Charter Commission.