KRZ - Key Persons
Barry represents many closely held Maine corporations serving all of their legal needs. He has extensive experience in employment and labor law representing management in union campaigns and grievances. Barry also practices regularly in the areas of estate planning and domestic relations. He received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University and his law degree from the University of Maine School of Law in 1970.
Barry authored "The Balance of Power in Professional Sports" for the Maine Law Review. He is admitted to practice in all the courts of the State of Maine and is a member of the American Bar Association and Maine Trial Lawyers Association. He was a member of the Maine Judicial Council, acted as Chairman on the Committee for Prepaid Legal Services and Co-Chairman for the Legal Education and Admissions Committee. He has been on the Board of Directors of Cedars Nursing Care Center for over 30 years and served three terms as its President. He served on the Board of the University of Maine Law School Alumni Association and was honored as the School's Outstanding Alumnus in 2006. Barry is married and has three adult children.
Barry has the highest Martindale-Hubbell rating of AV. An AV rating reflects an attorney who has reached the heights of professional excellence. He or she has usually practiced law for many years, and is recognized for the highest levels of skill and integrity. Barry is also listed in Best Lawyers in America for family law.
Job Titles:
- Kajima Construction Services, Inc
John A. McArdle, III, joined Kelly, Remmel & Zimmerman in 2007, and retired from practice at the end of 2023.
For over 30 years, John focused his practice on complex personal injury and professional liability in Maine and Massachusetts, devoting his career to helping injured people and their families prevail over people, corporations and insurers who would otherwise have the advantage to deny them justice. "It's an honor and a privilege to fight for and obtain justice for deserving and injured people."
John graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, in 1984 magna cum laude and Suffolk University Law School in 1987 where he was the Executive Editor of the Law Review. John then practiced at a premier personal injury firm in Boston before returning to Maine in 1989 as a senior associate in a prominent trial practice firm and then opening his own practice. John is a graduate of Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyer's College and a member of the Million Dollar Advocate's Forum.
When in practice, John was a member of the Maine State Bar Association and Massachusetts Bar Association. For over twenty years John served on the Board of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association and is the past President of the organization. John presented local and national seminars, taught Trial Practice at the University of Maine Law School and coordinated and taught at The Peoples Law School with a mission to teach substantive law to non-attorneys.
John Kelly practiced as a trial lawyer in Maine for five decades from 1967 until his retirement.
John received his undergraduate degree from Colby College and his law degree from Georgetown University. John worked for several years on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. as a Congressional Legislative and Administrative Assistant before he joined the Criminal Division of the Attorney General's office in Maine.
John began civil law practice in 1969 in Portland involving both defense and prosecution of civil litigation matters. As an active leader in his profession, John was elected President of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association, the Maine State Bar Association and the Maine Bar Foundation. John also served on a number of court and governmental advisory committees. In recognition of his professional leadership, John was a recipient of the Howard H. Dana Award.
John is a former chair of the board and is now a life trustee of the Board of Trustees of College of the Atlantic and a founding member of the Eco-Eco Public Policy Forum initiated at the College. In addition, John was Vice Chair of the Board of Gulf of Maine Research Institute.
While in practice, John had the highest Martindale-Hubbell rating of AV. An AV rating reflects an attorney who has reached the heights of professional excellence. The attorney has usually practiced law for many years, and is recognized for the highest levels of skill and integrity.
Lauri is an attorney, mediator and facilitator with an active legal practice focused on bicycle and pedestrian advocacy and personal injury work. She also is a general civil litigator and is active in the field of alternative dispute resolution.
Lauri is a Past President of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association and presently serves on the Association's Board of Governors. She is an active member of the Bike Law Network, a select group of attorneys in the United States and Canada with a shared commitment to effectively advocating for the rights of bicyclists in courts, legislatures, administrative agencies, municipalities, and on the road.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Maine Bar Association
R. Terrance Duddy joined Kelly, Remmel & Zimmerman in 1983 and retired at the end of 2023 after four decades of practice with the firm.
Before his retirement, Terrance focused his practice on civil litigation representing both plaintiffs and defendants in the state and federal courts in the State of Maine. Terrance is a 1980 graduate of the University of Maine School of Law. Prior to joining KRZ, Terrance served as the law clerk for the Hon. Thomas J. Lydon of the United States Court of Claims in Washington, D.C. and as an associate with the law firm of Carter & Associates of Bamberg, Germany, where Terrance tried approximately one hundred criminal cases representing American servicemen in Europe.
During his practice, Terrance litigated and tried many cases dealing with products liability, professional negligence, maritime injuries, and wrongful death. In recognition of his experience in these areas, Terrance has been a seminar speaker at numerous continuing legal education seminars sponsored by the Maine State Bar Association and the Maine Trial Lawyers Association. The topics on which he has been asked to speak include the use of experts in complex litigation; the use of expert economists in litigation; the interface of psychology and the law; bad faith insurance practices; and deposition techniques in civil litigation.
Terrance is a former President of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association. He has been selected in The Best Lawyers in America as one of the best attorneys in the areas of Admiralty and Maritime Law and Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs. Terrance also has the highest Martindale-Hubbell rating of AV. An AV rating reflects an attorney who has reached the heights of professional excellence. The attorney has usually practiced law for many years, and is recognized for the highest levels of skill and integrity.
Education
Terrance did his undergraduate studies at the University of Maine at Orono, graduating in 1973 with high honors and Phi Beta Kappa. From 1973 until 1976, Terrance served on active duty with the United States Navy as a diving and explosives officer on board a ship deployed in the Western Pacific. Terrance remained active as a naval reserve special warfare officer/diving officer until 1994 at which point he had obtained the rank of commander.
Memberships
Terrance is a member of the Maine Bar Association, the Maine Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice and the Maritime Law Association and is admitted to practice in all courts of the State of Maine as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, the United States Court of Claims and the United States Tax Court.
Bob Crowley joined KRZ's Center for Conflict Resolution after his retirement as a retired Maine judge in 2010. Bob fully retired from the practice of law in 2024. Before his retirement, Bob's practice focused on private judging, mediation, arbitration and neutral evaluation of cases. He also acted as settlement counsel and as strategic counsel in litigated matters.
Before turning his professional focus to private dispute resolution, Bob had a long history of public service in the Maine Courts. Bob served as Judge of Probate for York County (1983 - 1987), a Judge of the Maine District Court (1987 - 1993), and as a Justice of the Maine Superior Court from 1993 through his retirement in 2010. Bob presided over hundreds of jury trials and adjudicated thousands of non-jury cases. While serving as a Superior Court Justice, Bob pioneered judicial settlement conferences in Maine and developed a reputation as a leader in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution. He trained Maine Judges and lawyers in judicial settlement conferences and Alternative Dispute Resolution and has been a frequent presenter on negotiated settlements at professional seminars.
Bob's dispute resolution experience spanned several decades and includes his successful mediation of thousands of disputes involving complex business and family, real estate, employment, probate and estate, personal injury and wrongful death, civil rights, product liability, partnership and corporate, construction, sexual harassment, class action, malpractice, public policy, education and health care cases.
Bob is a 1968 graduate of Georgetown University and a 1971 graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center.
Stephen has been a part of the KRZ team since graduating magna cum laude from the University of Maine School of Law in 2016 and was named Partner in 2022. Currently, Stephen's practice is focused in the fields of maritime and admiralty law, personal injury, family law, and general civil litigation. Stephen is admitted to practice law in all federal and state courts in Maine and Massachusetts, as well as the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
While in law school, Stephen competed as a member of the Trial Competition Team and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Ocean & Coastal Law Journal, earning the Edward S. Godfrey Leadership Award which is presented annually at graduation to the law student who made the most significant contribution to a student-edited law journal. Stephen also served as a Maine Association for Public Interest Law (MAPIL) Fellow with the Volunteers Lawyers Project (VLP), completed a judicial externship at the Lewiston District Court, and was a student attorney at the Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic.
Stephen currently serves on the Board of Governors for the Maine Trial Lawyers Association (MTLA) and is co-chair of MTLA's Amicus Curiae Committee. Stephen is also a member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), including AAJ's Admiralty Law Section, and participates in the Edward Thaxter Gignoux Inn of Court.
Stephen has been recognized as a Rising Star honoree in the annual list of New England Super Lawyers each year since 2019. Rising Stars recognizes attorneys who are either 40 years old or younger or in practice for 10 years or less. Each year, no more than 2.5% of the lawyers in New England are selected as Rising Stars.
Outside of work, Stephen volunteers as a coach for the Deering High School boys' soccer program and is a United States Soccer Federation certified referee. Stephen is married with a son and two dogs.
Tim Norton joined Kelly, Remmel & Zimmerman in 1988 and has been a shareholder in the firm since 1994. Tim graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 1985 with high distinction and graduated from the University of Maine School of Law in 1988 cum laude. While at the University of Maine School of Law, Tim was a member and editor of the Maine Law Review.
U. Charles ("Chuck") Remmel, II is a graduate of Yale University (1966) and the University of Michigan Law School (1969). His practice is very broad and combines multiple disciplines to the advantage of his clients' needs. Among those clients have been large and small businesses, medical and accounting groups, banks and banking associations, land development and land trust entities, and insuring entities. Current focus areas are business acquisitions and sales, business work-outs and restructurings, complex litigation both in Maine and in other jurisdictions, maritime and fisheries concerns, and industrial regulatory compliance. This broader experience can be brought to bear to assist clients with all aspects of their commercial needs, including banking, transactional and restructuring requirements, and business litigation.
Chuck has the highest Martindale-Hubbell rating of AV. An AV rating reflects an attorney who has reached the heights of professional excellence. He has been selected by the publications Super Lawyers in New England for the area of Business Litigation and Best Lawyers in America for the field of Maritime law. He has been designated as one of the Top Trial Lawyers in Maine by the American Trial Lawyers Association.
Chuck continues currently to teach as an adjunct professor at the University of Maine School of Law, having taught courses in admiralty law and advanced torts, and has presented seminars and courses for trade, legal and industry associations in a number of fields. Chuck also has the ability to present his clients' position in the courtroom, and has been involved with and written about many of the leading cases in Maine which have defined the ground rules for business transactions and responsibilities. Chuck is a member of the Maine Bar Association and the Maritime Law Association and is admitted to practice in all courts of the State of Maine as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. He has served on numerous non-profit boards and governmental commissions, including the Portland Public Library, the Portland Stage Company, the Maine Island Trails Association, the Maine Speak-Out Project, and the City of Portland Landbank Commission.
Chuck is married to Kathy Remmel, retired as the principal of the middle school at Waynflete School, a private school in Portland, Maine, and currently active in the non-profit area.