We help entrepreneurs, communities, and mission-driven organizations build, protect, and defend the work that gives their own lives meaning.
Taking a general counsel approach to the practice of law, we provide a reassuring hand through a variety of business challenges and opportunities. We have an intentionally sharp and strategic focus on business, corporate, municipal, and employment law as well as a steadfast commitment to bringing empathy and humanity to every issue, transaction, or negotiation.
Whether this includes forming and organizing a business or nonprofit entity, drafting a tax increment financing agreement, assisting a professional practice acquire a new location or book of business, or representing a commercial lender in making a loan to a startup, we take our clients’ challenges and objectives to heart.
Michael S. Malloy, Esq.
Managing Attorney
Michael is a business lawyer and entrepreneur devoted to helping Maine professionals build and protect their life’s work. In 2016, after several years practicing at medium–sized firms, where he represented some of Maine’s largest private employers and municipalities, Michael launched The Malloy Firm as an independent practice based in Lewiston-Auburn, with a statewide reach.
Michael’s practice includes the areas of commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and employer compliance. He represents a number of lenders, businesses, and private practice professionals. Michael fully embraces technology as a tool to help bridge access to counsel challenges in Maine’s rural communities, and as a means to serve clients more efficiently and more securely, while maintaining a personal, high-touch connection with each one of his clients.
To further embrace these tools, and to lead with value, in 2023, Michael started a podcast called Private Practices in Maine to help licensed professionals (such as dentists, attorneys, chiropractors, veterinarians, and optometrists) get the guidance and actionable information they need to build a thriving business. It is free to listen to, and available here or wherever fine podcasts are available.
Involved in his community and within the bar, Michael is a frequent presenter and preferred business partner of the Maine Dental Association and is the past President of the Androscoggin County Bar Association. He is currently chair of the board of the Auburn Public Library and a member of the Board of Governors of the Maine State Bar Association. He has previously served as general counsel to the City of Auburn, a Director of the Lewiston-Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, a Trustee of the Catholic Foundation of Maine, the Chairman of his parish finance council, and a lector at Sacred Heart Church in Auburn. When not practicing law or learning a new technological tool to integrate into the practice, Michael is usually skiing or thinking about skiing with his wife and kids.
Originally from Medway, Massachusetts and a proud alumnus of Xaverian Bros. High School, Michael is an honors graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont and Suffolk University Law School. He has studied at the Université de Paris -III, Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Institut Catholique in Paris, France, and received NCAA All-America Honors in swimming. He is admitted to practice in Maine and Massachusetts.
Education
Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA
J.D., cum laude
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Bachelor’s degree with double major: International Politics & Economics, French.
Université de Paris, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France
Visiting Student
Institut catholique de Paris, Paris, France
Visiting Student
Kristen Morissette
Client Development and Special Projects Manager
Part paralegal, part marketer, part process improvement specialist, Kristen wears numerous hats at The Malloy Firm, and she wears them well. Kristen provides daily paralegal support while managing the Firm’s client outreach efforts, ensuring all special projects are executed well and completed on time. Organized and tech-savvy, Kristen is a natural systems person; she has taken to developing and refining The Malloy Firm’s internal systems to create more streamlined and efficient workflows.
Client development also motivates Kristen. She enjoys helping business owners through the many stages of their entrepreneurship journey, and is grateful to be a part of their successes. She also loves to be able to provide some piece of mind when it comes to important life decisions such as those involved in estate planning.
Before joining The Malloy Firm, Kristen worked as a social media assistant at Trinity College and interned at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, where she and her team received the Guest Service Award. An accomplished and dedicated swimmer, she has also lifeguarded at local pools and ponds. When not fixing workflows, overseeing legal projects, or connecting with clients, you’ll find Kristen playing with her cat, Meeko, helping her parents renovate their house, discovering new documentaries, dabbling in photography, and scoping out the best restaurants in Maine.
Kristen grew up in Leeds, Maine and graduated from Leavitt Area High School, where she played soccer, ran track, and was literally the entire swim team. She is a cum laude graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where she majored in American and Classical Studies. She has studied at Syracuse University Florence in Florence, Italy and was awarded Faculty Honors and was named to the NESCAC All-Academic Swim Team. She was inducted into the National Honorary Society for Classical Studies and the Chi Alpha Sigma Honor Society and co-captained the women’s swim team.
Education
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Bachelor’s degree with double major: American Studies and Classical Studies, cum laude
Syracuse University in Florence, Florence, Italy
Visiting Student
LOCATION
Two Great Falls Plaza, Suite 6A
Auburn, Maine 04212
PO Box 3171, Auburn, ME 04212
PHONE
207-333-6700