Jerrol Crouter

Jerrol A. Crouter is an attorney with Drummond Woodsum in Portland, Maine, and a member of itsTrial Services Group. He focuses his practice on civil litigation, alternative dispute resolution, higher education and public utility regulation. Mr. Crouter has 35 years of experience as a civil trial attorney in both federal and state courts, including employment, commercial and construction litigation. He also has experience as a mediator and arbitrator in commercial, construction, employment, real estate, probate, family law, malpractice and complex personal-injury cases. His practice concentration also includes the representation of colleges and universities on a wide range of higher-education law issues, including student discipline, Title IX, faculty and staff employment, and tenure cases. Mr. Crouter regularly appears on behalf of public utilities and interested parties in water, electric and gas proceedings before the Maine Public Utilities Commission. He concentrates his trial practice on commercial, employment and construction cases. He has tried jury and jury-waived cases, including employment discrimination, antitrust, commercial torts, construction disputes, contract disputes and patent infringement. Mr. Crouteris listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the categories of Arbitration and Mediation, Commercial Litigation, Construction Litigation, Labor and Employment Litigation and Bet-the-Company Litigation, and he has been named as Maine’s “Lawyer of the Year” in the categories of both Mediation and Arbitration. In addition, he is listed in Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business andCommercial Litigation, and Benchmark Litigation has recognized him as a Maine Litigation Star. Mr.Crouter has served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Maine School of Law, where he taught trial practice. He received his B.A. in 1978 from Colby College and his J.D. in 1983 from George Washington School of Law.