
Menawarmet Hotel,
current site of
Griffin Law Offices
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Our Firm CARL R. (CHIP) GRIFFIN III, Attorney at Law
ANNE D. MOSHER, Certified Paralegal
MARY T. SPROUL, Certified Paralegal
SANDY PAXSON, Certified Paralegal
KATI HUNT, Certified Paralegal
KEVIN BOWLER, Office Manager
SARAH E. GILES, Assistant
BELLA GRIFFIN, Official Greeter
OUR MISSION

CARL
R. (CHIP) GRIFFIN, 29th
year, grew up in Boothbay Harbor, attended public
schools for 12 years in the Boothbay Region, and
graduated from Boothbay Region High School in
1973. Selected Phi Beta Kappa, he graduated Summa
Cum Laude from Bowdoin College in 1977. He was a
Dean's List student at the University of Maine
School of Law, graduating in 1980. He has owned
and managed his law firm in Boothbay Harbor since
1980. Memberships include: American Bar
Association, Maine State Bar Association, and
past president of the Lincoln County Bar
Association.
A
member of the Real Estate Section and Trust and
Estates Section of the Maine State Bar
Association, Chip is also part of the Law
Practice Management and Real Property, and Trusts
and Estate sections of the American Bar
Association. He has been a faculty member since
1999 of the Maine State Bar Association's
"Bridging the Gap" seminar, writing and
speaking on law practice management.
He
is the only Lincoln County Attorney who is a
member of the Elder Law section of the Maine
State Bar Association and the National
Association of Elder Law Attorneys. Areas of
concentration include estate planning, estate
administration, elder law, real estate, business,
and land use. He has served on several volunteer
boards, including his church, Boothbay Harbor
Rotary Club (a past president with over 25 years
perfect attendance), Boothbay Region YMCA,
Boothbay Region Student Aid Fund, Rebuilding
Together, Boothbay Harbor Historical Society, and
Safe Passage (helping the children of the
Guatemala City Garbage Dump).
Chip's
lifelong passion is his family and community. He
and his wife, Denise, have two daughters. They
enjoy traveling, biking, and hiking together. He
enjoys delving into local history, moderating
town meetings, and daily reading in a broad
variety of subjects.
Chip
has published two local history books, Coming of
Age on Damariscove Island, published in 1981, and
I'm Different, a biography of Ethelyn Pinkham
Giles and a twentieth-century history of the
Boothbay Region, published in 1999. He has
published many articles and has taught estate
planning for adult education over the past 15
years.
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ANNE D. MOSHER,
17th year,
travels each day from Bath, where she was born
and raised. Following high school she studied
retailing, merchandising, and advertising at two
colleges, in both Maine and Florida. Initially
she managed a women's clothing store and later
held positions as Merchandising Manager for women
& fashions and Advertising Manager and
Merchandising Coordinator with J.C. Penney.
For
ten years Anne was involved in various types of
sole proprietorships, including sales agent of
two different consumer product lines, as well as
a partner of two wholesale/retail seafood markets
in both Bath and Topsham.
Anne
and her husband live in Bath and are parents of
four adult children, and two grand-dogs. Anne
owned and operated a state-registered day care
for four years while pursuing a degree in
business administration and paralegal
certification, graduating from Andover College
first in her class.
Working
weekends for Chip in 1991, she began her
full-time duties as a paralegal with the firm in
June 1992. She deals primarily with real estate
planning, contracts and real estate closings,
performs abstracting, and is also responsible for
all of the firm's title insurance. Participated
in community groups in Bath and Rebuilding
Together here in Boothbay Harbor.
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MARY T. SPROUL,
20th year, graduated with honors from
Holyoke Community College as she worked full-time
as a store manager for AAFES at the Connecticut
Air National Guard and at Westover Air Force Base
in Massachusetts. Mary went back to school in
2001 and earned her paralegal certificate in 2002
from Andover College in Portland.
As
we have grown over the years, Mary has been
instrumental to many aspects of the practice,
including office and information technology;
marketing, website design, office brochures,
questionnaires, and newsletters; bookkeeping and
billing; and office and file management.
Mary's
legal experience includes real estate, business
law, debtor/creditor law, estate planning, and
estate administration. She is primarily working
in the fields of real estate as well as business
entities and planning.
Mary
is an active leader of Senior Girl Scouts, has
served as superintendent of the Sunday School and
as a Sunday School teacher at the United
Methodist Church. She also served as president of
the Board of Directors for the Harbor Children's
Center, a non-profit child care, preschool, and
after-school-care program.
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SANDY PAXSON, 7th
year, moved here from Pennsylvania 13 years ago,
when she, her husband, and their two children,
fell in love with the Boothbay region on a visit
here and decided to settle right in. The family
enjoys going to Seadog games, traveling, and
walking the local Land Trust trails.
Sandy
is serving her fourth term as a member of the
Boothbay-Boothbay Harbor CSD school committee.
She has also worked on several non-profit groups
in the community, including the board of
directors for The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor,
the building committee for the Boothbay Harbor
Memorial Library, and as a former vice president
of the Boothbay Region PTA.
Sandy
obtained her paralegal certificate at Penn State
University and now works with our clients in the
areas of estate planning, estate and trust
administration, probate, and elder law and
Medicaid issues. In the past, she has also worked
with the office bookkeeping, marketing, and
office management.
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KATI E. HUNT, 3rd
year, moved to Maine in 1993
after graduating from Manhattanville College in
Purchase, NY, with a BA in American literature
and a minor in political science. Soon after,
while working at The First, she met her husband,
Dale, a painting contractor, as he was completing
paint renovations at the Damariscotta branch, and
now she helps with his thriving painting company.
Kati,
her husband and their two children, live in their
family home in Jefferson, Maine. Hobbies include
golfing, boating, travel and renovating their
family home. Kati is an active board member and
development membership chair for Wawenock Country
Club and is the treasurer of the Great Salt Bay
Community School PTO. Kati also help out with
Boosters Club at her children's school and
supports her children's various sports teams with
her husband. She looks forward to becoming even
more involved with her children's school and
Rebuilding Together program.
Kati's
responsibilities are in areas of estate planning,
estate and trust administration, probate, elder
law, and Medicaid issues.
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KEVIN BOWLER, 3rd
year, is from Virginia by way
of Pennsylvania and then Delaware. Kevin and her
husband left corporate life to find their way to
Maine and its way of life. Kevin has worked in
our community on various committees and
organizations serving on the board of the
Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce, past
chairman of the Windjammer Festival, past
president, treasurer and chicken barbecue master
for the Boothbay Civic Association, and assorted
Town committees. Kevin enjoys gardening, cooking
and quilting.
Kevin's
primary responsibilities are office management,
accounting, technology, website updates and
whatever task is requested.
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SARAH E. GILES,
17th
year, is a local native,
hailing from an East Boothbay shipbuilding
family. She graduated in 1963 from Boothbay
Region High School and is the proud mother of
three children and five grandchildren.
Sarah
attended Franconia College in New Hampshire after
high school. While raising her family, Sarah
continued with night courses at a local community
college. She received her Real Estate Broker's
License in 1972 in Connecticut, where she lived
for 11 years before returning to Maine. In 1977
she received her Maine Real Estate Broker's
License and was a Broker with Harbor Realty.
Sarah
enjoys cooking, gardening, needle work, knitting,
sewing, and reading. She also volunteers as
treasurer of the St. Andrew's Free Bed Fund, The
Boothbay Region Historical Society, and The East
Boothbay United Methodist Church; delivers Meals
on Wheels; and is a director of Rebuilding
Together and member of the Lincoln County Friends
of Safe Passage.
Sarah
is our "right-hand" receptionist and
office-ally extraordinaire. Sarah's great
attitude and humor, coupled with her willingness
to tackle any chore, keeps our phones, files, and
faxes flowing.
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BELLA GRIFFIN, 3rd
year, our Bernese Mountain
Dog, is our "official" receptionist as
she welcomes everybody who walks through the
door. Bella's listening skills and guarding
secrets, modeled after the staff's, eases clients
when she often joins in conferences with her dad,
Chip Griffin.
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OUR MISSION
Committed
to Community
MISSION
STATEMENT
We
serve by:
Validating our team
with loyalty, respect, and compassion, by
working and learning together for common
goals;
Empowering our clients
with an understanding of the law as trusted
advisors acting with integrity and empathy;
Committing to our
community through volunteering our
time, talent, and treasure, and sharing our
knowledge; and
Devoting our selves
to creating a positive difference in others'
lives, while enriching and transforming our
own.
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