About Mr. Richard Lyman
Mr. Richard Lyman Hartley is an attorney whose trail to the law started in New England classrooms and wound into Maine courtrooms. He earned a B.A. in Russian records from Princeton University in 1989. He returned north for law program and acquired his J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law in 1994. Those educational years established the groundwork for a practice formed by courtroom work and appellate filings.
Early in his profession Hartley served as an Assistant District Lawyer in Sagadahoc County beginning in 1998. That position positioned him on the prosecutorial side of many local matters and gave him ordinary publicity to jury trials, pretrial practice, and evidentiary disputes. He later moved into personal practice as an affiliate at Billings & Silverstein in 2003, the place he broadened his courtroom experience and treated a range of felony things and associated legal proceedings.
In 2006 he set up his personal practice, serving as president and sole lawyer of the Law Office of Richard L. Hartley, P.C. Running a one-lawyer firm calls for balancing client work, court preparation, and the administrative duties of a private practice. For Hartley, that structure has intended direct client touch and manage over legal proceedings approach, from arraignment thru attraction.
Hartley has been lively in the Maine felony defense community. He served on the board of the Maine Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers from 2007 thru 2013, moving through officer roles that covered vice president for 2011–2012 and president for 2012–2013. Those positions concerned organizing educational packages, participating in statewide discussions approximately criminal justice policy, and representing protection practitioners in expert boards.
His licenses cover the state of Maine and the First Circuit. That dual scope reflects both trial work in state courts and handling appeals in the federal appellate court that serves this area. Colleagues describe him as a lawyer who spends most of his time in felony things, from trial practice to post-conviction and appellate work. He continues to serve clients through his company, focusing his recent practice on criminal defense and appellate representation in Maine and the First Circuit.
