Bernstein Shur – Portland Office

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Bernstein Shur - Portland Office 04101

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Bernstein Shur Sawyer & Nelson is a Portland Maine-based law firm that advises clients across the U.S. and around the world. Our 125+ award-winning attorneys and professionals practice in more than 20 critical areas and a variety of industries. In 2020, Bernstein Shur was named one of Maine’s Best Places to Work for the ninth time. While we’re proud of our roots, accolades, and wide-ranging expertise, it’s not only our substance that sets us apart; it’s also our approach. We relish simplifying the complex. We believe that sophisticated doesn’t have to mean stuffy, and we’re not just accessible—we’re approachable. We fight hard for our clients, but calm persistence and collaboration are often our weapons of choice.

Located In: Middle street plaza

Service Options: Online appointments· Onsite services

Appointments: bernsteinshur.com

Hours

Friday8AM–5PM
SaturdayClosed
SundayClosed
Monday8AM–5PM
Tuesday8AM–5PM
Wednesday8AM–5PM
Thursday8AM–5PM

Address and Contact Information

Address: 100 Middle St, Portland, ME 04101

Phone: (207) 774-1200

Website: https://www.bernsteinshur.com/

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Services

Law Firm
Corporate litigation
We can guide you through the inevitable changes you’ll be called upon to navigate, and offer counsel on fundamental matters such as the composition of boards, charters by-laws, shareholder agreements, limited liability company agreements and corporate executive compensation scheme. We also step in during moments of crisis to represent you during investigations.
Government litigation
Government relations are complicated. You need a team that understands policy, knows the law inside and out, has the right connections, knows how to make an airtight case, and can provide the auxiliary support to advance your goal from all angles. Bernstein Shur’s government relations group is that team, and we have the track record to prove it.
Insurance litigation
A wholly owned subsidiary of Bernstein Shur, Monument Title Company provides title insurance and escrow services for commercial transactions throughout Maine and New Hampshire for lenders, developers, and retailers. We work collaboratively with Bernstein Shur to provide clients with the best title insurance coverages available at competitive rates.
Intellectual property litigation
Your intellectual property is likely your most valuable business asset. But understanding how various laws protect these intangible assets can be difficult. That’s why we’re here. Our interdisciplinary intellectual property lawyers helps you identify, protect, and monetize your goodwill, creativity, and imagination.
International law
We understand and embrace the complexities, uncertainties, and potential of international business—and as a result are highly valuable to our clients. Good business is good business the world over, and we’ll help you find and capitalize on great opportunities.
Legal consulting
We are a team of professionals with unique knowledge and experience working in international business, sports, and entertainment. We collaborate with Bernstein Shur attorneys to drive growth for our clients.
Nonprofit litigation
Our non-profit lawyers represent a diverse section of leading nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, from small public charities to major private foundations.
Property dispute litigation
The right legal partner can help you defend your interests in—and often outside—the courtroom, while helping manage your reputation and advance your long-term goals. We know because we help clients do that every day—and genuinely enjoy seeing them come out of a tough situation stronger.
Small business litigation
Whether you’re concerned about competing more effectively in your regional or global market, keeping your data secure, navigating the tax code, planning for the future of your company, or simply addressing the day-to-day challenges of running a successful business, we can help.
Trust & estates litigation
As your trusts and estates team, our highest priority is getting to know you and taking the time to understand your values, priorities, and goals. From there, we draw on the experience of our multistate interdisciplinary team to help you articulate your plan for the future in the way that works best for you and your family.
Asset Management & Securities
We regularly work with members of the investment management industry, fund service providers, those in need of regulatory guidance, and those dealing with SEC examinations or enforcement matters.
Business Lawyer
Whether you’re concerned about competing more effectively in your regional or global market, keeping your data secure, navigating the tax code, planning for the future of your company, or simply addressing the day-to-day challenges of running a successful business, we can help.
Business Restructuring
The Business Restructuring and Insolvency Practice Group represents clients throughout the United States, including the busy reorganization courts in Delaware and the Southern District of New York.
Business Restructuring & Insolvency
The Business Restructuring and Insolvency Practice Group represents clients throughout the United States, including the busy reorganization courts in Delaware and the Southern District of New York. Within New England, the group plays a significant role in the majority of business bankruptcy and Chapter 11 cases filed, with an emphasis on the representation of debtors in Chapter 11, as well as purchasers of assets. Outside New England, members of the group have represented asset purchasers in section 363 and plan sales of assets, as well as major parties-in-interest in Chapter 11 cases and business bankruptcy-related litigation.
Commercial & Governmental Finance
Our team focuses on providing commercial lender representation, assisting with subsidized housing/HUD programs, and serving as bond counsel on bond deals including representing borrowers, lenders, and issuers. Because we know the law well, we’re able to get deals done particularly efficiently and cost-effectively.
Construction
Hospitals and schools. Roads, piers, and utilities. Power plants. Large residential condominium projects. Pretty much any residential or commercial project you can imagine. We’ve done it all.
Corporate Governance
We can guide you through the inevitable changes you’ll be called upon to navigate, and offer counsel on fundamental matters such as the composition of boards, charters by-laws, shareholder agreements, limited liability company agreements and corporate executive compensation scheme. We also step in during moments of crisis to represent you during investigations.
Crisis Management & Public Relations
No matter what industry you’re in, and how careful you are, you could find yourself facing a complicated communications crisis. Sometimes the best strategy is not to say anything. Sometimes the best strategy involves taking an aggressive, proactive approach and speaking to the media. We help our clients manage media scrutiny, protect their business interests, and control the public narrative—and with it, public opinion.
Education
Working with a diverse array of schools has given our education law team truly unique collective and cross-institutional knowledge. We routinely leverage our group’s insight and expertise to help clients tackle labor disputes, faculty tenure and personnel matters, collective bargaining, interest and grievance arbitration, student misconduct and academic issues, FERPA issues, governance, and pension and health care plans, among other challenges.
Energy
We love what we do and are passionate about every part of it, from development financing, permitting/authorizations, construction contracts, insurance, and real estate/title clearances. But we’re not just energy attorneys; we’re also business partners for our clients, helping them get new products to market efficiently and cost-effectively and strategizing about the best ways to advance their long-term goals.
Financial Regulation & Compliance
Today’s regulatory environment is challenging, to say the least. However, our financial regulation and compliance team is unusually prepared to help you navigate today’s ever-changing regulations.
Food and Beverage
We work with clients in all sectors of the food and beverage industry. They range from suppliers and manufacturers, to packagers, brokers, distributors, retailers, restaurants, and food trucks, to guilds and other trade associations. We aren’t just lawyers; we’re brewers, distillers, chefs, farmers, buyers, and consumers. We know why you’ve chosen to do what you do, and we’re ready to show you how to take the next step.
Fund & Investment Product Formation
In recent years, there’s been a lot more competition in the mutual fund and hedge fund space, as well as the growth in the markets for exchange-traded funds (ETFs), collective trust funds (CTFs), and non-depository trust companies (NDTCs), which makes it hard for many industry members to distinguish themselves and what they offer. However, we can help.
Global Consulting & Talent Revenue Strategies
We are a team of professionals with unique knowledge and experience working in international business, sports, and entertainment. We collaborate with Bernstein Shur attorneys to drive growth for our clients.
Government & Politics
Our versatile government and politics work helps those holding and running for office manage and advance their candidacy, advocate for certain issue areas, find the best way to get complicated projects done, and mitigate threats to their team or administration.
Government Relations
Government relations are complicated. You need a team that understands policy, knows the law inside and out, has the right connections, knows how to make an airtight case, and can provide the auxiliary support to advance your goal from all angles. Bernstein Shur’s government relations group is that team, and we have the track record to prove it.
Health Care
The health care attorneys at Bernstein Shur represent physicians and other health care professionals, physician group practices and associations, joint ventures, hospitals, nursing homes, home health care agencies, mental health agencies, pharmacies, and a wide range of other health care providers throughout northern New England.
Intellectual Property
Your intellectual property is likely your most valuable business asset. But understanding how various laws protect these intangible assets can be difficult. That’s why we’re here. Our interdisciplinary intellectual property lawyers helps you identify, protect, and monetize your goodwill, creativity, and imagination.
International Business
We understand and embrace the complexities, uncertainties, and potential of international business—and as a result are highly valuable to our clients. Good business is good business the world over, and we’ll help you find and capitalize on great opportunities.
Labor & Employment
As labor and employment attorneys, we know how hard it is to find, train, and hold on to good employees and great managers—all while protecting your company and growing your business. However, with years of experience in labor and employment law, we know firsthand that it’s more than possible to create and enforce policies that are legally compliant and create a better workplace. And we look forward to helping your company do just that.
Land Use & Environmental
Whether you’re a developer, municipality, or individual, it can be hard to navigate the tricky labyrinth of local, state, and federal environmental and land use laws. Fortunately, our hardworking team of environmental and land use attorneys can make your life a lot easier.
Legal Counsel
Legal Guidance
Legal Services
Whether you are a small business owner, local municipality, or Fortune 500 company, we deliver smart, practical legal solutions that work over the long term.
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
The right legal partner can help you defend your interests in—and often outside—the courtroom, while helping manage your reputation and advance your long-term goals. We know because we help clients do that every day—and genuinely enjoy seeing them come out of a tough situation stronger.
Mergers & Acquisitions
From planning to execution, we assist in all aspects of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures. Our clients include bidders, target companies, venture capital and investment companies making financial acquisitions, strategic buyers, company founders implementing exit strategies, financial advisors, and more.
Municipal & Governmental Services
Our nationally-recognized municipal law team is one of the largest groups of its kind in the region, providing seasoned, responsive counsel on land use, municipal litigation, public finance, and tax-exempt bonds, labor and employment, tax increment financing, and property tax and valuation, among other areas.
Nonprofit and Tax Exempt
Our non-profit lawyers represent a diverse section of leading nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations, from small public charities to major private foundations.
Political Campaigns & Consulting
With extensive expertise across a variety of issue areas—from natural resources to energy to taxation, transportation, and insurance—and deep relationships with both political parties, our Political Campaigns and Consulting team is just as effective at supporting candidates running for office as helping change public perception around controversial issues.
Private Capital
Our private capital team counsels entrepreneurs on various structures and avenues for raising early-stage capital; represents mature operating companies in all stages of raising capital in equity, debt, and hybrid financings; represents private investment funds in connection with capital raising activities; and provides strategic advice to investors in private capital transactions.
Pro Bono Services
Pro Bono Work
Property Tax and Valuation
For more than seven decades, Bernstein Shur has counseled municipalities and private clients on local property taxation, property valuation, and assessment. Businesses, developers, municipalities, and not-for-profit entities rely on our team of nationally respected attorneys for guidance in how property will or should be locally assessed for property tax and economic development purposes.
Real Estate
Whether you’re working on an energy project, tax-financed development, or national tenant lease, you’re likely facing a lot of moving parts and complex documentation requirements. Our team provides smart, strategic counsel and manages all the pieces—ensuring that everything comes together the way you want it to.
Succession Planning
When it comes time to transfer, expand, or set parameters for changing ownership of your business, do you know where to turn? You may have been so busy building your company that you may not have had the time to consider your own end game, or where to seek advice on how to navigate it. That’s where we come in.
Tax
Tax rules are as complicated—and potentially costly—as they are important. Whether you’re considering forming or acquiring a business or performing a complicated like-kind exchange, we can help you find the most cost-effective, tax-efficient way to structure your transaction.
Tax Increment Financing
Technology, Outsourcing & Data Security
New technologies. New competitors. New regulations. It’s a tight market for the talent you need to grow your business. In most industries, getting—and staying—ahead requires taking a holistic approach to strengthening your company, adapting new technologies, improving your business processes, and finding new ways to break away from the competition at home and abroad.
Title Insurance & Closing Services
A wholly owned subsidiary of Bernstein Shur, Monument Title Company provides title insurance and escrow services for commercial transactions throughout Maine and New Hampshire for lenders, developers, and retailers. We work collaboratively with Bernstein Shur to provide clients with the best title insurance coverages available at competitive rates.
Trust & Estates
As your trusts and estates team, our highest priority is getting to know you and taking the time to understand your values, priorities, and goals. From there, we draw on the experience of our multistate interdisciplinary team to help you articulate your plan for the future in the way that works best for you and your family.
Workplace and Campus Investigations & Consulting
As seasoned labor and employment attorneys, we have years of experience conducting investigations for a broad range of clients, including major corporations, public and private academic institutions, non-profit organizations and state and local governmental entities.
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Reviews

Thomas Haight
Rude and Dismissive. I inquired about help settling my wife’s estate and planning for passing my estate to my daughters. Initially it went well. A pleasant person called back to get my info. She said they needed to do a conflict check and she’d get back to me. About an hour later I got a call from someone who started to do the same thing. I told her I was currently waiting on the results from a previous call. Then later that day I got a terse email from someone who told me to call them by tomorrow or they’d consider the mater closed. I considered it closed after reading the email. Like I’m going to engage a firm that is that arrogant from thr start. NOT!!!
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Edy Kizaki
Contacted this firm’s lawyer Vera Buck for an hourly consultation. It turned out she is not licensed in Maine although she is on the Maine website. No apologies, and even though I suggested in a friendly way this could be avoided by a notation on each lawyer’s bio, there was no apology or indeed response. In terms of getting the consultation I needed, she was very unhelpful and didn’t refer me to a Maine colleague in her firm. When I asked for a referral her reply was useless. Either she was having a very bad day or the whole firm needs an attitude adjustment. Terrible service and terrible attitude.
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Liberty Bell Moving & Storage LLC
If you need to hire the best lawyers in Portland Maine, make this firm your first call. Friendly, savvy lawyers with a breadth of legal experience on all fronts! No matter what type of case you have, you’ll be in good hands with BernStein Shur. Eben Albert and Jamie Chiaravelotti were especially great to work with! Highly recommend
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Melanie Trudeau
Berstein Shur Shareholder Kai McGintee showed questionable ethics when interviewing students at a Vermont school in 2017. She communicated with me several times asking to interview my 16-year-old daughter regarding a very specific incident that happened at the school. When she had my daughter in the interview room, the line of questioning was mostly unrelated to the specific incident she had previously indicated in writing. The hour-and-a-half interview turned out to be a witch hunt against one of the school’s staff members. Not only did she mislead several school families, she never suggested that the minors have a lawyer present during her investigation. Ms. McGintee’s blatant deceitfulness is a disgrace to the legal profession.
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Chris Kelley
Great firm, best in Maine.
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ted olivo
Not as causually secret as needed
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Lori Schmitz
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Nicholas Vintzileos
Positive: Professionalism, Quality, Responsiveness, Value
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Samantha Masabny
Positive: Professionalism, Quality, Responsiveness, Value
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