AUBURN — Attorney James E. Belleau of Skelton Taintor & Abbott, 95 Main St., received an AV rating by his professional peers through the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating system. An AV rating is an acknowledgment that an attorney’s peers of the highest level of professional excellence and unquestionable ethics.

Attorney Belleau is a 1993 graduate of Bowdoin College and a 1996 graduate of the University of Maine School of Law. He joined Skelton Taintor & Abbott in 1996 and is a director and shareholder of the firm. He is the firm’s hiring partner and serves on the firm’s management committee. His areas of practice are general civil litigation with an emphasis on personal injury, medical malpractice, commercial and municipal litigation.