About Sarah Hall

Research and Writing Attorney Sarah Hall enjoys the challenge of building compelling cases from the ground up through meticulous analysis of facts and applicable law. She approaches each case like a puzzle and believes that with care and creativity, evidence can be pieced together to present a complete picture to the jury. Sarah is a key member of the Berman & Simmons medical malpractice team, where she applies her expertise and intellectual curiosity to evidence gathering and case construction.

She earned her law degree cum laude from the University of Maine School of Law and was an editor of the Maine Law Review. Earlier in her career, Sarah practiced at a Maine law firm where she represented criminal defendants. She is a member of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice, and the Maine State Bar Association.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Berman & Simmons

These results are credited to Berman & Simmons. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$25 millionVerdict

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.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · 2022Motorcycle AccidentsRead the full story →
$23.1 millionVerdictLargest in Maine

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.

Aroostook County Superior Court, Caribou, ME · 2026Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$22.5 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2014 · #17

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.

Chittenden County Superior Court, Burlington, VT · 2014Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$17 millionVerdictTop 10 in Maine · #2

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.

Kennebec County Superior Court, ME · 2026Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$6.5 millionVerdictTop 10 in Maine · #6

A Cumberland County jury awarded $6.5 million to the family of Peter Smith, a 25-year-old who died of Lyme carditis in July 2017 after a Mercy Hospital physician twice failed to diagnose his Lyme disease despite a textbook presentation of symptoms.

Cumberland County Superior Court, Portland, ME · 2023Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

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Education

University of Maine School of Law
J.D., 1998
Wesleyan University
Undergraduate, 1991

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