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, 29^th 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, 17^th 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, 7^th 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, 3^rd 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, 3^rd 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, 17^th 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, 3^rd 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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