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Martha C. Gaythwaite is an honors graduate of the University of Massachusetts and a 1980 cum laude graduate of Suffolk University Law School. At Suffolk, she was a member of the Suffolk University Law Review. After graduating from Suffolk in 1980, she became law clerk to the Honorable Thomas G. Wilson, United States Magistrate for the Middle District of Florida. Thereafter, she was law clerk to the Honorable George C. Carr, United States District Judge in Tampa, Florida. Martha then came to Maine and joined the firm of Preti & Flaherty in 1983. Martha has successfully tried over a hundred cases in the areas of personal injury, medical malpractice, product liability and environmental law. She also has extensive experience in municipal law, representing a number of communities throughout the State. She is admitted in Massachusetts, Florida and Maine. She is a former co-chair of the Federal Practice Section of the Maine State Bar Association, former Maine State Representative to the Defense Research Institute, and a member of the American Board of Trial Attorneys. Martha also served for six years as a member and then chairperson of a Fee Arbitration Panel of the Maine Board of Overseers. Martha frequently presents lectures to various Bar organizations concerning trial techniques and other litigation-related topics. Martha lives in Gorham, Maine, with her husband John Tebbetts, and their two sons, Jack and Bill. John is a marine biologist who has been a stay-at-home dad since their sons were born. In addition to shuttling between soccer, basketball and baseball games, Martha is an active volunteer in the Gorham School Department and an Adult Leader in her sons’ Boy Scout troops.
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