Topsham, ME

Phillip E. Johnson

Phillip E. Johnson has served as a trial lawyer since 1975, and is the founding partner of Johnson & Webbert, LLP. Over his lengthy career, he has amassed a broad range of experience in cases ranging from personal injury to complex antitrust. He currently specializes in cases involving professional liability (including legal and medical malpractice), aviation, product liability, personal injury and employment law. He also regularly serves as a mediator helping plaintiffs and defendants achieve settlements in lawsuits. Phil is listed in Best Lawyers in America and New England Super Lawyers. He served on the Board of Governors of the Maine State Bar Association and the Board of Governors of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association. He also served on the Professional Ethics Commission of the Board of Overseers of the Bar from 2000 through 2007, holding the position of Chair during the last five years of his term. He served on the Ethics 2000 Task Force established by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to improve Maine’s ethics rules. Phil regularly serves as a consultant to lawyers and law firms on ethics matters, and he has qualified on numerous occasions as an expert witness in state and federal court in legal malpractice cases. He has authored nearly 100 articles on professional responsibility for the Maine Lawyers Review and The Ethical Lawyer published by the Maine State Bar Association, and he is a frequent speaker at legal seminars in Maine and around the country.

Suzanne L. Johnson

For the past two decades, Suzanne has represented longshore workers advocating for their rights under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Act. She has been particularly recognized by the National Asbestos/Mesothelioma Trial Lawyers Association and the Workers’ Injury Law & Advocacy Group for her representation of workers diagnosed with a disease related to their occupational exposure to asbestos products. In addition to workers’ compensation benefits, she has recovered substantial settlements for her clients and their family members especially shipyard and paper will workers against the manufacturers and suppliers of asbestos-related materials. Suzanne also regularly appears at Social Security Disability hearings advising her clients from the initial round of social security disability filings through the hearing process. In the decades of her legal career Suzanne has blended representing injured workers to secure the benefits they are entitled to, with their need for long range planning for their personal and family security. She has drafted hundreds of wills, administrated numerous probate estates and assisted as a financial fiduciary managing the probate and financial needs of her clients. She has been called to serve as Trustee of trusts created due to long term disability, or tax planning needs of her clients. Since the inception of her career in Connecticut and Boston, Massachusetts Suzanne has experience working both with high net worth individuals and with working families. She has been approved as a FINRA Dispute Resolution Arbitrator for disputes arising against financial advisors and stockbrokers. She resides in Brunswick, Maine with her husband, where they raised their children. When she is not advocating for her clients, she enjoys spending her time volunteering with several local non-profit organizations, exploring Maine’s coastline, and gardening.

Charlie March

Charles March has been practicing workers compensation, employment disability, and injury law throughout Maine for thirty years. He now represents injured contractors from war-support employers, defense base injuries, worldwide. His clients have suffered severe injuries that often terminate their careers in the workplace. His specialty is helping workers transition their lives, first with disability benefits and then with career assistance. Most of Injured Workers’ Legal Center’s clients are highly skilled employees who are threatened with a permanent loss of employment or earning capacity because of injuries and an employer- insurer denial of benefits. His team fights for top recoveries in court or through settlements for people with complex medical issues causing disability such as severe spine injuries, shoulder and arm injuries, traumatic head injuries, psychiatric syndromes, PTSD, shoulder and leg injuries, pulmonary, and other serious illness or injury. His clients include teamsters and delivery drivers, defense base contractors, shipbuilders, longshore and harbor workers, construction trades, nurses and other medical professionals and all other workers with work injuries or other disabling conditions. Charlie practices nationwide to advocate for contractors injured in foreign countries under the Defense Base Act who are now living throughout the U.S. and in foreign countries. He has forced the largest companies and insurers to follow the law and compensate injured employees through a federal or state court or agency orders. He and his team appear before the U.S. Department of Labor, Social Security Administration, Maine Workers’ Compensation Board, and all State and Federal courts. He works collaboratively with other attorneys specializing in all aspects of the law throughout the United States, particularly on work injuries, disability and insurance claim denials. He is proficient in Spanish and has served as a union business agent and then employment attorney for forty-five years.

Richard R. Regan

Richard Regan is an attorney with over 30 years of experience, assisting clients in Topsham and throughout Maine with bankruptcy, personal injury, criminal defense, and probate matters. He founded Regan Law LLC in 2020 and is dedicated to providing client-focused legal help, ensuring personal attention and striving to protect and advance his clients' legal rights. He also handles student loan law services.

Paul J. Brunetti

Paul Brunetti is a lifelong Maine resident and a graduate of Bates College and the University of Maine School of Law. He formerly worked for the Maine Democratic Party as Director of the Maine House Democratic Campaign Committee and served as Special Assistant to the Commissioner of the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development. He joined Moncure & Barnicle in 2012, focusing on general litigation, family law, divorce, small business development, and personal injury. He is admitted to practice in Maine Courts and the US District Court for the District of Maine. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Maine Bar Association, and Androscoggin County Bar Association.

Kevin M. Noonan

Every injured worker in Maine-and all across the country-has the right to be protected under the law and compensated fairly for injuries sustained on the job. This is not too much to ask, it's a fact of life. I am here to give voice to working people who have not been fairly treated and face financial issues due to a work-related injury.

David G. Webbert

David G. Webbert specializes in employment, civil rights, and complex legal cases, trials, and appeals. He graduated magna cum laude from both Yale College in 1982 and Harvard Law School in 1985, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. David clerked for Judge Kenneth W. Starr of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and practiced for 5 years with a leading boutique litigation firm in D.C. He has been listed five times as one of only five Maine lawyers on Super Lawyers annual list of the Top 100 lawyers in New England and has been listed since 2003 in The Best Lawyers in America. Since 1998, David has been the President of the Maine Employment Lawyers Association. The Chambers USA guide to leading lawyers has listed David as the top attorney for employees in Maine, describing him as “in a league of his own” for “pure courtroom horsepower” and commending his legal strategy skills. Federal Judges have repeatedly praised David’s work. He is an elected Fellow of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, the highest recognition by colleagues of sustained outstanding performance in the field of labor and employment law. David has won many precedent-setting workers’ rights and civil rights cases, including a jury verdict of $3 million in a wrongful termination race discrimination case, class action settlements of $5, 3.3, and 1.45 million, individual case settlements of $1-2 million, an academic freedom verdict of $805,000 featured in the American Bar Association Journal, two of the largest Americans with Disabilities Act verdicts ever in Maine, a race discrimination and free speech verdict for the President of the Portland NAACP, a landmark ruling upholding a claim of family responsibilities and sex stereotyping discrimination by a woman unfairly denied a job promotion because she was the mother of young triplets, and fair housing cases reported in leading national newspapers. Many of David’s successes have been before appellate courts including a successful appeal of a class action case seeking overtime pay for truck delivery drivers in O’Connor v. Oakhurst Dairy, 851 F.3d 69 (1st Cir. 2017). This case turned on the absence of an Oxford Comma and was repeatedly covered in the New York Times while also receiving international attention. He also won an appeal upholding his client’s claim to a mortgage worth over $2 Million in Adams v. Slonim, 924 F.2d 256 (D.C. Cir. 1991); an appeal in the landmark civil rights case that upheld the rights of persons with HIV under the ADA to basic health care services, Abbott v. Bragdon, 107 F.3d 934 (1st Cir. 1997); and an appeal for a state court judge that a county violated the Maine Constitution when it tried to reduce his compensation. He has won awards from the Maine Civil Liberties Union and Disability Rights Maine. For over 20 years, David was a member of the Maine Federal Court’s Local Rules Advisory Committee. He is also an elected member of the American Law Institute, a group of leading judges, legal scholars and lawyers founded in 1923 to promote clarity and reform in judge made law and recognized as the most prestigious private American legal association. David served as the President of the Board of Directors of Disability Rights Maine, the protection and advocacy agency for people with disabilities. He has been recognized in the Congressional Record for his contributions to the enactment of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 and the Civil Rights Tax Relief Act. LawDragon has repeatedly selected him as one of the country’s 500 leading plaintiff employment & civil rights lawyers.