About Sean Murphy
Sean P. Murphy is a trial lawyer at Gideon Asen LLC representing individuals and families in complex personal injury, medical malpractice, industrial workplace accidents, and other serious civil cases. Sean's career spans federal prosecution, appellate advocacy, and complex civil litigation. After earning his J.D. cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law in 2014, where he received the Rickert Award for Excellence in Advocacy and tried federal civil rights cases as a student, he worked as a federal prosecutor in Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., handling cases involving transnational drug trafficking, firearms, and money laundering. Following the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack, Sean volunteered to serve on detail to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, where he became a founding leader of the Capitol Siege Section and served as Federal Assault Coordinator.
In private practice, he litigated environmental and toxic tort cases involving PFAS contamination, AFFF firefighting foam, CERCLA claims, and Federal Tort Claims Act cases. Born in Utah and raised in Vermont, Sean was drawn back to Northern New England to join Gideon Asen's mission. He is admitted in New York State and multiple federal courts, with Maine and Vermont admissions pending.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Gideon Asen LLC
These results are credited to Gideon Asen LLC. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
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. Maine's cap on wrongful-death companionship damages cut the $10 million half of that award to $750,000, leaving a judgment of $15.75 million. Both sides have appealed.
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.
An eight-member federal jury in Maine awarded $4.5 million to Julia Russell, finding Philip Chenevert liable for sexually abusing her beginning when she was six years old in 1992.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
