Memberships/Distinctions:

• Recognized as one of the top 100 lawyers by New England Super Lawyers
• Recognized by Benchmark, the Definitive Guide to America's Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys as a “Local Litigation Star”
• Listed in Best Lawyers in America for personal injury litigation and medical malpractice law
• Law clerk, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1980-1981
• Maine Bar Association
• American Board of Trial Advocates
• Academy of Catastrophic Injury Attorneys
• Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers (2004)
• AV® Rated by Martindale-Hubbell*

Admitted to the following bars:

Maine
U.S. District Court - District of Maine
First Circuit Court of Appeals

Profile:

Mr. Sweet graduated from Bowdoin College in 1971. After working for seven years in social services, he attended Northeastern University School of Law, graduating in 1980.
 
From 1980 until 1981, he served as a Law Clerk to Justice Frances Quirico on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Since 1981, Mr. Sweet has practiced at Berman & Simmons. At various times, Mr. Sweet has been listed in Best Lawyers in America under criminal law, divorce law, and civil litigation. At present, he concentrates his practice in serious cases involving medical malpractice or personal injury.
 
In 2001, Mr. Sweet obtained the largest verdict in Maine history for a medical malpractice plaintiff, $9 million in Cumberland County Superior Court. Since then, he has successfully handled medical malpractice cases involving general surgery, orthopedics, neurosurgery, obstetrics and gynecology, and internal medicine.
 
Mr. Sweet is a member of the Maine Bar Association, the American Board of Trial Advocates, and the Academy of Catastrophic Injury Attorneys. In 2004, he was selected as a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Mr. Sweet's practice is statewide, and he regularly handles cases in Maine's rural counties, including York County, Oxford County, Washington County, Franklin County, Piscataquis County, and Aroostook County.

* AV® is a registered certification mark of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies.