Downs Rachlin Martin (“DRM”) was named by Best Law Firms in 2025 for several practice areas. The first group is Metropolitan Tier 1, Burlington, VT for Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Commercial Litigation, Commercial Transactions/UCC Law, Copyright Law, Corporate Law, Labor Law, Labor Law – Management, Land Use & Zoning Law, Litigation – Intellectual Property, Litigation – Land Use & Zoning Law, Litigation – Real Estate, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Real Estate Law, Tax Law and Trademark Law. DRM was also recognized for Metropolitan Tier 1, Concord, NH for Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Labor & Employment and Trusts & Estates Law, and Metropolitan Tier 1, Montpelier, VT for Energy Law, Environmental Law, Real Estate Law, and Trusts & Estates Law.
Metropolitan Tier 2 recognitions include Burlington, VT for Criminal Defense: White-Collar, Employment Law – Management, Litigation – Bankruptcy, Litigation – Construction, and Litigation – Insurance.
Metropolitan Tier 3 recognition in Burlington, VT was received for Litigation –Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs.
Earlier this year, twenty-five DRM lawyers were included in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and five were included in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America. Additionally, four lawyers were recognized as “Lawyer of the Year”.
Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers in America® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers recognitions are compiled based on an exhaustive Purely Peer Review evaluation. More than 116,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received more than 17 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world.
From offices located in Vermont and New Hampshire, the legal services provided by DRM attorneys include bankruptcy and business restructuring, business law, captive insurance, renewable energy, telecommunications, health law, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, white collar defense and government enforcement, real estate and land use, environmental, tax, and trusts and estates, plus legislative services and executive director support through the firm’s Government and Public Affairs group.