Chris is a lifelong resident of Maine, having grown up in the Augusta area where he attended local schools. His interest in the law was sparked from a young age.  His father was Maine’s chief forensic psychologist for many years, affording Chris a rare perspective on many of Maine’s most notorious murder prosecutions throughout the 1980’s and early 1990’s.  As a teenager, Chris visited the court a number of times to watch trials and also had the opportunity to go back into chambers with the lawyers to listen to off-the-record discussions.  With these formative childhood experiences, it was perhaps inevitable that he would enter the practice of law.  Chris is also proud to note that his great-grandfather, Neil Vincent MacLean, practiced law in Bangor, having been admitted to the Bar in 1904.  His certificate of admission to the Bar hangs on the wall in Chris’s Camden law office.

Chris began practicing law in mid-coast Maine in 1996 after graduating from the Maine Law School.  He has a statewide litigation practice and has handled cases in 15 of Maine’s 16 counties.  (He is still waiting to take on his first case out of Oxford County, in western Maine.) 

Chris practices in the areas of:

• Family Law
• Criminal Defense
• Contract Litigation
• Construction Litigation
• Administrative Hearings
• General Civil Litigation
• Appellate Law

Chris is currently chair of the Camden Planning Board, is a member of the West Bay Rotary Club, and has been involved in a number of other community activities, including coaching youth soccer and little league, and advising the mock trial team at Camden Hills Regional High School.  He is currently in his second three-year term on Maine’s Advisory Community of the Rules of Evidence.  He is also a member of the Maine Trial Lawyers' Association and Maine Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Chris is admitted to practice in all State and Federal Courts in Maine, as well as the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, and the United States Supreme Court.  He has also been admitted, Pro Hac Vice, in the United States Virgin Islands, where he was lead counsel in a complex divorce matter.  Chris is counsel of record in a number of court reported decisions from the Maine Law Court.

Chris lives in Camden with his wife and children.