Ben Algeo is a member of the firm’s Municipal and Energy and Utilities Practice Groups. He specializes in land use, energy, and environmental law. He works with a diverse array of clients, including municipal governments, private developers, landowners, nonprofits, and Tribal Nations. Clients rely on Ben for advice on a wide range of issues, and for representation before courts, agencies, local boards, and at the negotiating table. Ben brings a practical, solutions-oriented approach, dogged advocacy, and careful attention to any matter he works on.

Before joining Drummond Woodsum, Ben served as a Law Clerk for the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, as a Legal Intern for New England Ocean Cluster and the Maine Public Utilities Commission, and as a Student Attorney for the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic. He was also a Judicial Extern for the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Ben graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Maine School of Law where he received a Certificate in Environmental and Oceans Law, received the Gignoux Award for Appellate Advocacy, and was the Head Case Note and Comment Editor for the Ocean and Coastal Law Journal. In 2022, Ben received the David Sive Award for Best Brief Overall from the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition, and in 2023 he received the award for Best Brief for a Party from the competition.

Outside of work, Ben enjoys running, snowboarding, fishing, and spending time with his wife, their animals, friends and family.