Meryl Poulin
About Meryl Poulin
Meryl Poulin is a trial lawyer and partner at Gideon Asen LLC whose practice focuses on medical malpractice, personal injury, and product liability litigation. A Maine native, Meryl graduated from Colby College, where she was a multi-sport varsity athlete and captain of the hockey and field hockey teams, and earned her J.D. cum laude from the University of Maine School of Law, where she received the Gignoux Award for Appellate Advocacy. Before joining Gideon Asen in 2021, she defended medical malpractice and personal injury cases at a large Portland firm and then represented low-income Mainers in housing and domestic violence matters at Pine Tree Legal Assistance, trying nearly twenty cases to verdict. Since joining the firm, Meryl has played a central role in trial teams that have secured more than $41 million in jury verdicts in Maine. She was part of the team that won the $25 million medical malpractice verdict in October 2025, the largest personal injury verdict in Maine's history. She also obtained a $5.5 million verdict in 2022 and a $4.5 million child sex abuse verdict in 2023. Meryl is recognized in Best Lawyers Ones to Watch and Super Lawyers Rising Stars.
Notable case results
A Cumberland County jury awarded $25 million to the mother of a 15-year-old girl who died five days after a physician at Mid Coast Medical Group misdiagnosed her acute leukemia as a hormonal condition, without ordering an X-ray.
A Penobscot County jury awarded Travis Getchell $6.5 million after finding Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center negligent for delaying emergency surgery by nearly 24 hours, leaving him partially paralyzed.
An Androscoggin County jury awarded Marielle Bischoff-Wurstle $5.5 million after Affordable Cremation Solution in Lewiston, Maine, left her father's remains unrefrigerated in an overheated basement for more than two weeks in summer 2021.
Jury verdict, medical malpractice case involving death of teenage girl from misdiagnosis, largest personal injury verdict in Maine history (October 2025)
Medical malpractice involving young man with Cauda Equina syndrome, second-highest verdict ever in Penobscot County (April 2026)
Funeral home malpractice for mishandling of a client's father's remains (September 2022)
Child sexual abuse case, one of the largest such verdicts in Maine history (January 2023)
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
