Practice Areas
Whether you are seeking legal representation for a complex transaction, a commercial dispute or a personal matter, our attorneys have the knowledge, experience and skills to help you achieve your goals.
Affordable Housing & Community Development
The need for affordable housing in all regions of the United States is growing rapidly and Drummond Woodsum is able to offer unparalleled service and deep expertise in the areas of affordable housing law and community development law.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies exponentially improve, the legal landscape surrounding them becomes increasingly complex. At Drummond Woodsum, our AI Law Practice Group is dedicated to guiding clients through these challenges with expert legal counsel and innovative solutions.
Banking & Financial Services
Our attorneys recognize the unique and complex needs of financial institutions and other financial service providers, particularly in light of the ever-changing landscapes that they face.
Bankruptcy, Restructuring, & Creditors' Rights
Our extensive bankruptcy, restructuring, and creditors’ rights practice means that clients will find attorneys ready, willing, and able to undertake efficient and immediate action in any distressed commercial situation. We pride ourselves on providing practical advice to our clients in northern New England and across the country from the first sign of distress through the most complex chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Learn More About Bankruptcy, Restructuring, & Creditors' Rights
Business & Corporate
Our business and corporate attorneys serve a wide range of clients, from start-ups and early-stage companies to multinational corporations.
- Business & Corporate Overview
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Non-Profit & Tax-Exempt Entities
- Restaurant, Hospitality, Specialty Food & Beverage
- Securities Law
- Venture Capital & Emerging Companies
Employment & Labor
Too many people choose to resolve employment law, labor law, and personnel problems in ways that result in costly litigation and simply create other problems. Because we truly understand people and the realities of the workplace, we know what solutions will work – not just to resolve today’s issue, but to avoid problems tomorrow.
• Practice Overview
• Collective Bargaining
• Conflict Management
• Employee Benefits
• Employment Litigation
Energy & Public Utility Law
Our team provides the full range of public utility law services required by today’s large utilities and natural resource companies. Using an interdisciplinary team approach, we help clients with public utility law regulatory proceedings before the Maine Public Utilities Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, equity offerings and bond issuances, mergers and acquisitions, and services such as litigation, employment law, and tax advice.
Environmental & Natural Resources
Drummond Woodsum’s environment and energy team is a dynamic group of attorneys with specialized expertise in environment and energy law and with backgrounds in litigation, real estate and land use law. Together, this team serves a diverse group of clients from many business sectors, including natural resource protection, manufacturing, renewable energy, real estate, banking, municipalities and educational institutions. Our team is distinguished by its focus on providing each client with cost-effective solutions and zealous advocacy.
Estate Planning & Administration
In our estate planning, estate and trust administration, and personal tax practices, we are committed to providing prompt, innovative solutions, built upon a thorough understanding of our clients’ circumstances, an appreciation of their personal goals, and an application of our technical expertise.
Government Relations & Campaigns
Our Government Relations & Campaigns professionals provide advice and representation that dramatically affect both public opinion and public policy. We are respected and well-known in the governmental arena.
Health Care
Our Health Care practice offers sophisticated legal counsel for a rapidly changing health care industry. Our multi-disciplinary group of attorneys bring practical, efficient and business-oriented solutions to our clients’ problems.
Higher Education
Our attorneys serve as General Counsel and Special Counsel to colleges and universities throughout the United States. We take pride in providing sound and practical advice that draws upon decades of legal experience, as well as leadership roles on campuses and at the U.S. Department of Education. We work as a team to track the ever-changing landscape of higher education law to ensure clients receive up-to-date insights and guidance.
Immigration
Our immigration team represents businesses, individuals and families on all aspects of immigration law and procedures throughout New England and the country.
Intellectual Property, Technology & Licensing
Drummond Woodsum’s intellectual property law attorneys understand the critical importance of intellectual property issues to our clients and in the marketplace.
Learn More About Intellectual Property, Technology & Licensing
Land Use & Conservation
Our land use and conservation attorneys have vast experience representing landowners, land trusts, conservation organizations, environmental non-profits and local governments in their efforts to protect wild, scenic and ecologically sensitive areas. We seek creative solutions to complex problems, utilizing strategies such as conservation easements, sales to federal and state wildlife and conservation agencies, purchases by land trusts, and opposition to permitting of inappropriate development where necessary.
Litigation
Our trial attorneys are involved in every type of civil and criminal litigation in federal and state courts, administrative agencies, and arbitration panels. They are thoughtful, strategic, and assertive in their representation of clients from the initial stages of a dispute through resolution.
Mediation & Arbitration
Our attorneys have extensive experience and an excellent track record in mediation law and arbitration law including success serving as mediators in a wide range of disputes. Our mediators assist parties in reaching settlements in employment discrimination cases, commercial litigation matters, construction disputes, complex personal injury cases, medical and legal malpractice actions, and real estate disputes.
Municipal Law
We have provided practical, cost-effective legal advice to municipalities for more than twenty years. Our attorneys serve as general counsel for towns and cities in Maine and New Hampshire and as special counsel for towns and cities on matters requiring particular expertise such as contract negotiations, environmental law, election law, tax abatements, municipal investment, and appellate litigation.
Privacy & Data Security
Maintaining the privacy and security of sensitive information and valuable data is one of the most challenging tasks facing private and public sector organizations today. Fast-changing technology, increasingly aggressive hackers, shifting customer attitudes, intense media scrutiny, new laws and regulations, and evolving organizational models combine to make privacy and data security a top priority for organizations both large and small.
Public Finance
Real Estate
Our real estate attorneys are an active and knowledgeable force in structuring, negotiating, documenting and closing a wide spectrum of real estate transactions in the Northeast and the nation, as well as Canadian clients with real estate interests in the United States.
School & Education
We represent both public and private schools throughout Maine and New Hampshire. Our education attorneys and consultants provide advice and representation to schools and school boards in all areas of the law including student rights, policy analysis, collective bargaining, computer and technology, employment, employee benefits, freedom of access issues, special education, and litigation.
Tax
The core of our tax law practice consists of transaction-related tax planning law for individuals, business entities, investors, government entities and Indian tribal enterprises. We counsel on the full range of federal, state and Indian tax law issues that arise in structuring strategic, commercial and financial transactions. Our attorneys add significant value to these transactions by creating tax-efficient structures and providing innovative, practical solutions to the tax issues that challenge our clients.
Title IX & Investigation Services
As postsecondary institutions work to fulfill the wide array of their responsibilities under Title IX, Drummond Woodsum’s team of experienced higher education attorneys and consultants stand ready to assist. Our professionals have deep experience in Title IX matters and all areas of higher education law.
Tribal Nations Law
Our nationally recognized Tribal Nations practice provides the highest quality services to tribal nations and their enterprises and to companies that do business with tribes across the country. Our lawyers have served some of the country’s most successful tribal nations and enterprises for over 35 years. We have the highest peer-rated credentials, including listings in Chambers USA and Best Lawyers in America for our excellence in Native American Law.
Affordable Housing & Community Development
The need for affordable housing in all regions of the United States is growing rapidly and Drummond Woodsum is able to offer unparalleled service and deep expertise in the areas of affordable housing law and community development law.
Bankruptcy, Restructuring, & Creditors' Rights
Our extensive bankruptcy, restructuring, and creditors’ rights practice means that clients will find attorneys ready, willing, and able to undertake efficient and immediate action in any distressed commercial situation. We pride ourselves on providing practical advice to our clients in northern New England and across the country from the first sign of distress through the most complex chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Learn More About Bankruptcy, Restructuring, & Creditors' Rights
Energy & Public Utility Law
Our team provides the full range of public utility law services required by today’s large utilities and natural resource companies. Using an interdisciplinary team approach, we help clients with public utility law regulatory proceedings before the Maine Public Utilities Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, equity offerings and bond issuances, mergers and acquisitions, and services such as litigation, employment law, and tax advice.
Government Relations & Campaigns
Our Government Relations & Campaigns professionals provide advice and representation that dramatically affect both public opinion and public policy. We are respected and well-known in the governmental arena.
Immigration
Our immigration team represents businesses, individuals and families on all aspects of immigration law and procedures throughout New England and the country.
Litigation
Our trial attorneys are involved in every type of civil and criminal litigation in federal and state courts, administrative agencies, and arbitration panels. They are thoughtful, strategic, and assertive in their representation of clients from the initial stages of a dispute through resolution.
Privacy & Data Security
Maintaining the privacy and security of sensitive information and valuable data is one of the most challenging tasks facing private and public sector organizations today. Fast-changing technology, increasingly aggressive hackers, shifting customer attitudes, intense media scrutiny, new laws and regulations, and evolving organizational models combine to make privacy and data security a top priority for organizations both large and small.
School & Education
We represent both public and private schools throughout Maine and New Hampshire. Our education attorneys and consultants provide advice and representation to schools and school boards in all areas of the law including student rights, policy analysis, collective bargaining, computer and technology, employment, employee benefits, freedom of access issues, special education, and litigation.
Tribal Nations Law
Our nationally recognized Tribal Nations practice provides the highest quality services to tribal nations and their enterprises and to companies that do business with tribes across the country. Our lawyers have served some of the country’s most successful tribal nations and enterprises for over 35 years. We have the highest peer-rated credentials, including listings in Chambers USA and Best Lawyers in America for our excellence in Native American Law.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies exponentially improve, the legal landscape surrounding them becomes increasingly complex. At Drummond Woodsum, our AI Law Practice Group is dedicated to guiding clients through these challenges with expert legal counsel and innovative solutions.
Business & Corporate
Our business and corporate attorneys serve a wide range of clients, from start-ups and early-stage companies to multinational corporations.
- Business & Corporate Overview
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Non-Profit & Tax-Exempt Entities
- Restaurant, Hospitality, Specialty Food & Beverage
- Securities Law
- Venture Capital & Emerging Companies
Environmental & Natural Resources
Drummond Woodsum’s environment and energy team is a dynamic group of attorneys with specialized expertise in environment and energy law and with backgrounds in litigation, real estate and land use law. Together, this team serves a diverse group of clients from many business sectors, including natural resource protection, manufacturing, renewable energy, real estate, banking, municipalities and educational institutions. Our team is distinguished by its focus on providing each client with cost-effective solutions and zealous advocacy.
Health Care
Our Health Care practice offers sophisticated legal counsel for a rapidly changing health care industry. Our multi-disciplinary group of attorneys bring practical, efficient and business-oriented solutions to our clients’ problems.
Intellectual Property, Technology & Licensing
Drummond Woodsum’s intellectual property law attorneys understand the critical importance of intellectual property issues to our clients and in the marketplace.
Learn More About Intellectual Property, Technology & Licensing
Mediation & Arbitration
Our attorneys have extensive experience and an excellent track record in mediation law and arbitration law including success serving as mediators in a wide range of disputes. Our mediators assist parties in reaching settlements in employment discrimination cases, commercial litigation matters, construction disputes, complex personal injury cases, medical and legal malpractice actions, and real estate disputes.
Public Finance
Tax
The core of our tax law practice consists of transaction-related tax planning law for individuals, business entities, investors, government entities and Indian tribal enterprises. We counsel on the full range of federal, state and Indian tax law issues that arise in structuring strategic, commercial and financial transactions. Our attorneys add significant value to these transactions by creating tax-efficient structures and providing innovative, practical solutions to the tax issues that challenge our clients.
Banking & Financial Services
Our attorneys recognize the unique and complex needs of financial institutions and other financial service providers, particularly in light of the ever-changing landscapes that they face.
Employment & Labor
Too many people choose to resolve employment law, labor law, and personnel problems in ways that result in costly litigation and simply create other problems. Because we truly understand people and the realities of the workplace, we know what solutions will work – not just to resolve today’s issue, but to avoid problems tomorrow.
• Practice Overview
• Collective Bargaining
• Conflict Management
• Employee Benefits
• Employment Litigation
Estate Planning & Administration
In our estate planning, estate and trust administration, and personal tax practices, we are committed to providing prompt, innovative solutions, built upon a thorough understanding of our clients’ circumstances, an appreciation of their personal goals, and an application of our technical expertise.
Higher Education
Our attorneys serve as General Counsel and Special Counsel to colleges and universities throughout the United States. We take pride in providing sound and practical advice that draws upon decades of legal experience, as well as leadership roles on campuses and at the U.S. Department of Education. We work as a team to track the ever-changing landscape of higher education law to ensure clients receive up-to-date insights and guidance.
Land Use & Conservation
Our land use and conservation attorneys have vast experience representing landowners, land trusts, conservation organizations, environmental non-profits and local governments in their efforts to protect wild, scenic and ecologically sensitive areas. We seek creative solutions to complex problems, utilizing strategies such as conservation easements, sales to federal and state wildlife and conservation agencies, purchases by land trusts, and opposition to permitting of inappropriate development where necessary.
Municipal Law
We have provided practical, cost-effective legal advice to municipalities for more than twenty years. Our attorneys serve as general counsel for towns and cities in Maine and New Hampshire and as special counsel for towns and cities on matters requiring particular expertise such as contract negotiations, environmental law, election law, tax abatements, municipal investment, and appellate litigation.
Real Estate
Our real estate attorneys are an active and knowledgeable force in structuring, negotiating, documenting and closing a wide spectrum of real estate transactions in the Northeast and the nation, as well as Canadian clients with real estate interests in the United States.
Title IX & Investigation Services
As postsecondary institutions work to fulfill the wide array of their responsibilities under Title IX, Drummond Woodsum’s team of experienced higher education attorneys and consultants stand ready to assist. Our professionals have deep experience in Title IX matters and all areas of higher education law.