June 21, 2007
(Lebanon, N.H.) Three senior attorneys from the law firm of Daschbach, Csatari & Young, PLLC (DCY) are joining Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC (DRM). Their Lebanon office will become DRM's second New Hampshire office and seventh overall when the agreement reached this week is fulfilled on August 1.
The two law firms agreed on June 20 to incorporate DCY's general civil practice within DRM, the largest full-service law firm with offices in both Vermont and New Hampshire. On August 1, attorneys Joseph F. Daschbach, Thomas C. Csatari and Wayne R. Young and their current staff will continue their law practice in the DRM Lebanon office, and they will be supported by the resources of a full service law firm.
"We are pleased to have this opportunity to combine in the practice of law with DCY, an established and well-respected firm in a dynamic market," said John H. Marshall, managing partner and chief executive officer at DRM. "The addition of Joe Daschbach - a litigator and former judge, Tom Csatari - a trusts-and-estates and commercial attorney who has served as associate college counsel at Dartmouth College, and Wayne Young -- a skilled litigator -- to DRM's capable and collegial team will allow us to offer a broader range of services to new clients and to existing clients of both firms."
With an office in Littleton and two of its five Vermont offices on the New Hampshire border in St. Johnsbury and Brattleboro, DRM has worked with New Hampshire clients and courts for many years. DRM's expansion into the Upper Valley is consistent with the firm's vision of building its practice in areas of northern New England that require the services of a full service law firm.
Six accomplished DRM attorneys will assume new responsibilities for serving clients in the Upper Valley office. The six attorneys, their areas of concentration, and their current office locations are as follows: Kimberly M. Butler - commercial real estate, Littleton; Eric D. Jones - labor and employment, Burlington; Nancy S. Malmquist - public utilities and business law, St. Johnsbury; Robert A. Miller - public utilities and commercial litigation, St. Johnsbury; Peter D. Van Oot - environmental and regulatory law, Brattleboro; and James G. "Jake" Wheeler - business law, real estate finance and trusts and estates, St. Johnsbury.
"We strongly believe that this combination of practices will benefit the clients of both firms," said Butler, a graduate of Dartmouth College and head of DRM's transition team. "Together we offer 75 years of valuable service to clients. Our diversity of experience, combined with our emphasis on teamwork and collaboration among our attorneys and legal professionals, enables us to assess and address clients' issues from many angles."
"We are pleased that the practice we established here in the Upper Valley will instantly grow to provide the full variety of legal services that businesses and institutions need," Csatari said. "Until now, many of the complex and cutting edge businesses in the Upper Valley have had to engage large, distant firms with little knowledge of, or attachment to, the Upper Valley. Now, they will be able to get the services they need close to home."
DRM, with more than 80 attorneys and legal professionals in seven offices in Vermont and New Hampshire, provides legal services to local, national and international clients in practice areas which include litigation, business law, labor and employment, captive insurance, environmental law, estate planning, family law, tax law, public utilities, real estate, health care, intellectual property, creditors rights, venture capital and insurance defense. It represents clients in legislative, regulatory and public affairs through the Government Affairs group. DRM is the law firm member for Vermont of Lex Mundi, the world's leading association of independent law
