Darrick X. Banda
Specializing in : Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Legal Malpractice, Banking Claims, Insurance Claims, Criminal Law
Darrick X. Banda was born in Rockport, Maine, and raised in Bangor, Maine. Darrick is a 1994 Graduate of Bangor High School. He received Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Maine in both English and Political Science, graduating summa cum laude in 1998 and with the academic distinction of being nominated to the honor societies of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Tau Delta, Pi Sigma Alpha, and the 20th Maine Honor Society. Darrick also graduated from the University of Maine’s Army ROTC program in 1998, completing the program as a distinguished military graduate and having been selected as one of only twenty Army ROTC cadets nationwide to serve as a summer intern to the Secretary of the Army at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Maine School of Law in 2001 where he was twice honored as the school’s Justice Abraham Rudman Scholarship recipient.
Following law school, Darrick served as an infantry officer with the Maine Army National Guard, and was specially assigned in the spring of 2003 as an acting brigade Staff Judge Advocate in the 52nd Troop Command where he rendered legal assistance to hundreds of Maine soldiers preparing for deployment as part of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Hope. After six years of service and having achieved the rank of captain, Darrick was honorably discharged from the Army in February of 2007.
Prior to joining the firm, Darrick also served the people of the State of Maine for five years as an Assistant District Attorney. In this capacity, Darrick worked as a supervising prosecuting attorney in the Augusta District Court. His responsibilities included acting as legal advisor to several law enforcement agencies, including the Augusta Police Department, the Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office, the Maine Warden Service and the Maine State Police; teaching annual law enforcement training and re-certification classes as well as 4th Amendment law at the Maine State Police Canine School; and extensive criminal litigation work, comprising well over one hundred bench trials in the District Court and over two dozen criminal jury trials in the Superior Court. Darrick authored approximately one dozen appellate briefs filed in the Law Court on behalf of the State of Maine. He had the opportunity as a prosecutor to attend three specialized trial advocacy training sessions at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina, focusing on general courtroom advocacy, gang violence, and motor vehicle homicide cases.
Darrick is a member of the bar of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the United States District Court for the District of Maine. He is also a member of several professional organizations, including the Maine Trial Lawyers Association and the Maine Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Darrick was recently appointed as Justice of the Peace by the Chief Judge of the Maine District Court to help aid the court with the processing of warrants and probable cause determinations during non-business hours.
Darrick volunteers his time every summer to work in the American Legion Dirigo Boys’ State Program. As the director for the program’s mock judiciary branch, he strives to develop program activities that will expose delegates to the function and role of the courts in Maine state government.
