October 23, 2009
(BURLINGTON) Burlington attorneys Robert B. Luce and Marc B. Heath of the law firm Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC have been selected as fellows of the Litigation Counsel of America. LCA is a highly selective, invitation-only trial lawyer honor society that recognizes superior ethical reputation as well as effectiveness and accomplishment in litigation, both at the trial and appellate levels. The organization’s membership represents less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers.
Luce chairs DRM’s Litigation Practice Group. As a practicing attorney for three decades, he has managed numerous complex commercial litigation cases in federal and state courts. He has represented brain and spinal cord injury victims and their families for more than 15 years and is a founding board member of the Vermont Brain Injury Association. Luce is a 1979 graduate of Boston University Law School
Heath has conducted more than 65 jury trials to verdict involving complex construction and product liability cases, premises and auto liability claims, construction contract disputes and commercial development appeals. A former chair of DRM’s Litigation Practice Group, Heath currently serves as the firm’s marketing director. He received his law degree from Catholic University of America in 1981.
DRM is a full-service law firm with more than 60 attorneys and seven offices in Vermont, New Hampshire and New York. DRM provides legal services to local, national and international clients in practice areas that include bankruptcy and business restructuring, business law, captive insurance, energy and telecommunications, family law, health law, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, real estate and land use, environmental law, tax law and trusts and estates. The firm represents clients in legislative, regulatory and public affairs through the Government and Public Affairs group. DRM is the law firm member for Vermont of Lex Mundi, the world's leading association of independent law firms.
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