About Joseph Gousse
A skilled legal researcher, writer, and strategist, Joe Gousse takes pride in being a steward of the Berman & Simmons legacy. Approaching his work with a critical eye and scrupulous attention to detail, Joe is a natural fit for high-stakes claims involving complex legal issues. He specializes in personal injury and sex abuse cases. As the team prepares for trial, Joe digs into the facts of a claim and maps out legal strategy, anticipating opposition arguments and how best to counter them.
Joe is a graduate of the University of New England and the University of Maine School of Law. While in law school, he served as Head Case Note and Comment Editor of the Maine Law Review, was a Teaching Assistant for the Legal Writing Program, and received the Wernick Prize for Legal Writing, awarded to a graduating student for outstanding legal scholarship. Joe has contributed his research and writing skills to many complex, high-profile cases to help secure settlements and verdicts for clients. He has been recognized by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star for 2025.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Berman & Simmons
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A federal jury in Pennsylvania awarded $25 million to Travis Sweigart after a tractor-trailer driver turned left across his path at the exit of Interstate 176, crushing Sweigart's pelvis and leaving him with injuries the treating surgeon described as unquestionably the worst pelvic fracture he had ever seen.
A jury awarded Robert Giordano $23.1 million after a Northern Light radiologist failed to report a large bony mass compressing his spinal cord, leaving him permanently paralyzed from the chest down.
A Vermont jury awarded $22.5 million, the second-largest verdict in state history at the time, to a Maine utility lineman who lost both legs below the knee after an ungrounded, defectively installed air-break switch at a Richford substation released a 5,000-degree electrical arc through his body.
Emily Mitchell went to Inland Hospital in Waterville for laparoscopic surgery to remove a benign cyst on her left ovary. The surgeon removed her bladder instead, and pathology on the excised tissue found bladder wall and no ovarian tissue at all. She now lives with a bladder rebuilt from her small intestine. A jury awarded her $15.75 million and her husband $1.25 million.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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