Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

Specialties

DRM is a full-​service law firm with more than 60 attorneys and six offices in Vermont, New Hampshire and New York. Burlington is our flagship office, providing legal services to local, national and international clients in practice areas that include:

— bankruptcy and business restructuring

— business law (corporate, financial services, L3C, mergers & acquisitions)

— captive insurance

— energy and telecommunications

— government and public affairs

— health law

— intellectual property (patent, trademark, copyright, domain infringement)

— labor and employment

— litigation (commercial, construction, environmental, product liabilty)

— real estate, land use, permitting and environmental law

— tax law (New Markets Tax Credits)

— trusts and estates

Our experienced personal injury lawyers represent people with head, brain, spinal cord and other serious injury.

History

Established in 1950.

The law firm was founded in St. Johnsbury, Vermont by Sterry R. Waterman and John H. Downs. The Burlington office was established in 1976 by Robert D. Rachlin. Today, as the largest firm in Vermont, with six offices in Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York, DRM represents clients nationally and internationally. Despite its growth, DRM continues to be nourished by its rural roots and strives to project historic Vermont values: integrity, reliability, hard work.

Meet the Manager

Robert L.

Manager

Robert Luce is chairman of the firm’s Litigation Group. While he has extensive experience managing and trying complex commercial litigation matters, for more than two decades he has successfully represented brain and spinal cord injury victims and victims of other serious injuries.

Bob is a trial lawyer who concentrates his personal injury practice in the representation of head injury, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury victims and their families. In addition to understanding insurance law and liability law, he is knowledgeable about the biomechanics of neurological injuries, neurorehabilitation, and the special needs which accompany brain and spinal cord injury. Together with legal nurse consultant Marie Whitbeck, Bob Luce represents seriously injured Vermonters with exceptional skill, experience, and compassion.