News & Press Coverage
March 6, 2023

Preti Flaherty Welcomes Attorney Erin E. Jackson to the Firm

Preti Flaherty is pleased to announce that attorney Erin E. Jackson has joined the firm’s Real Estate and Finance and Corporate and M&A practice groups, working in the Portland, Maine, office.

Erin is a graduate of the University of Maine School of Law and Temple University. While in law school, she served as Case Note and Comment Editor of the Ocean and Coastal Law Journal and received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in the field of real estate transactions. She has held internships at a tax/trust and estates law firm in Portland and in the office of the Hon. Jon D. Levy of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, and was a Maine Association for Public Interest legal intern and fellow at the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands in Kapolei, Hawaii. Prior to law school, she worked in estate planning as a paralegal at a small firm in Portland. Most recently, Erin was a real estate Associate at a prominent Portland law firm.

Preti Flaherty’s Managing Partner, David Van Slyke, said, “In her short time as an attorney, Erin has already built an impressive foundation of knowledge and experience in real estate and financial matters. She has a bright future ahead of her, and we are excited that she has chosen Preti Flaherty as the place to build on that promise.”

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