Mireille Thibodeau
Founding partner, Portland
Mireille founded the firm in Portland and leads its car crash and wrongful-death cases.
Mireille grew up in Lewiston, in a French-speaking family, and still talks with clients in French when they'd rather. She spent her first years of practice defending insurance companies, which is where she learned how adjusters value a claim and why the first offer is low.
She started the firm to take the other side. She keeps the Portland office, answers its line herself on Mondays, and drives out to anyone who can't come in.
Mireille's admissions and education
Bar admissions
Maine
2003
New Hampshire
2006
Courts
Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Maine Superior Court
U.S. District Court for the District of Maine
Education
J.D., University of Maine School of Law
B.A., Bates College
Languages
English
French
Memberships
Maine State Bar Association
Maine Trial Lawyers Association
What Mireille learned on the other side
Working for insurers taught Mireille that a claim's value is set by its file, not by how much it hurts. A missing record lowers an offer, and a gap in treatment becomes the adjuster's best argument.
So she builds the file from the first week: every visit, every bill, every day of work missed. When the offer comes, she can show what each figure is worth, and tell the client honestly whether to take it.
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