Terry Garmey Attorney at Law

Terry Garmey has fought on behalf of plaintiffs for more than 40 years, has earned more 7-figure verdicts of any attorney in the state of Maine, and has received the highest awards and accolades in his field. Terry was the first lawyer from Maine to be invited to the Inner Circle of Advocates, an organization comprised of the top 100 plaintiff lawyers in the U.S. He was also invited into the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers and has repeatedly been named Personal Injury Litigator of the Year for Portland, Maine by Best Lawyers. Terry attended La Salle University in Philadelphia, taught at a reform school, went to broadcasting school and landed work as a disc jockey. That led him to Boston, where he hosted a show on WRKO. He worked at a drug rehab center and earned a master’s degree in education at Harvard University. After watching the court-appointed lawyers who represented clients of the rehab center, Terry decided to enroll in law school. In his third year, he worked for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. He was trial assistant in the highly publicized case of Commonwealth v. Susan Saxe, a former Brandeis University student who took part in a bank heist during which an accomplice shot and killed a Boston police officer. After graduation and another year at the DA’s office, Terry knew he wanted to work as a plaintiff’s lawyer. My approach is to take a complex problem and to make it as simple as possible by breaking it down into pieces. That intuitive aspect, scanning the surface of a problem and finding the important components quickly, I think that is one of my strengths,” Terry says. “But I think my greatest skill is the ability to surround myself with people who can help me do the job