JOHN W. McCARTHY born in Augusta, Maine, is a graduate of Holy Cross College and the University of California School of Law at Davis. He served in Vietnam as an officer and platoon commander with the First Infantry Division and earned a Bronze Star for Valor in Combat. Prior to joining Rudman & Winchell in 1980, John was an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Maine and chief of the Attorney General's tort litigation section. In 1998 he argued Abbott v. Bragdon, the first case decided under The Americans with Disabilities Act by the United States Supreme Court.

• Areas of Practice
  • First Party Insurance-Health,Uninsured/Underinsured, Fire
  • Labor & Employment Law
  • Insurance Law
  • Litigation and Appeals
  • Business & Commercial Litigation
  • Products Liability Law
  • Personal Injury-Plaintiff
  • Personal Injury-Defense
• Bar Admissions
  • Maine, 1977
  • California, 1974
  • U.S. District Court, District of Maine, 1978
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit, 1991
  • U.S. Supreme Court, 1978
• Education
  • University of California at Davis School of Law Davis
    • California, 1974
    • J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
      • Honors: California State Scholar
  • College of the Holy Cross
    • Worcester, Massachusetts, 1971
    • B.A., Bachelor of Arts
      • Major: Economics