About Stephanie Mills
Stephanie J. Mills is a trial attorney at Gideon Asen LLC representing individuals in complex, high-stakes personal injury cases. She brings two decades of legal experience to the firm, including prior service as Chief Legal and Compliance Officer at InterMed, where she led contracting, compliance, and enterprise-wide risk management and advised senior leadership and the Board of Directors. Her executive-level healthcare experience gives her deep insight into how medical organizations evaluate exposure and navigate litigation.
After years advising institutions, Stephanie returned to representing individuals, applying her institutional knowledge to pursue accountability when standards of care are not met. She earned dual undergraduate degrees in Biology and Environmental Science from Tufts University and her J.D. cum laude from the University of Maine School of Law, where she was News Editor of the Ocean and Coastal Law Journal and a student member of the Gignoux Inn of Court. She is admitted in Maine, Connecticut, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
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.
