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Bernstein Shur, one of northern New England’s largest law firms, announced today that elderly-housing development and energy-project finance attorney, Jamie Broder, has joined Bernstein Shur as a shareholder.
With 36 years of legal experience in Washington, DC, and Portland, Maine, Broder brings a national practice and extensive experience in the fields of real-estate law and energy-project development. He is general counsel to the nation’s fifth-largest nonprofit developer of housing for the elderly. Broder also acts as counsel to one of Maine’s largest long-term care providers in matters involving development, financing and acquisition of assisted-living and long-term care facilities throughout Maine. As special counsel to various nonprofits, he has helped to develop over 75 projects for the low-income elderly throughout the country.
Broder’s energy practice includes electric transmission infrastructure projects in Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Vermont and Hawaii and biofuels manufacturing in Maine. His role on these projects involved matters of project finance, permitting, contract law, and multi-state utility power-pool regulatory work.
Broder has been dedicated to meeting the needs of America’s elderly in the public-policy arena as well as in his law practice. He worked as a congressional staffer in the early 70s, when he drafted the revised HUD Section 202 program (housing for the elderly) and shepherded it through Congress. President Reagan appointed him to serve for two terms on the Federal Council on Aging, where he focused on housing-policy issues.
After moving to Portland in 1982, Broder became an 18-year member and subsequent president of the board of the Cedars, Portland’s Jewish Home for the Aged. He was also appointed as a trustee of the Maine Health and Higher Educational Facilities Authority, the state’s specialized bond issuer for college, hospital, nursing facility and special-needs housing projects.
In 1994 and again in1998, Broder served as finance chair of the Angus King for Governor campaigns and, in 1994, he took a brief leave of absence from his law practice to co-chair Governor King’s transition team.
A member of the Maine State Bar Association and American Bar Association, Broder is named in Best Lawyers in America® for the fields of energy and project finance law. He is a 1968 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Virginia and earned a J.D. from Georgetown University Law School in 1975. Broder served in the Navy for four years prior to attending law school. Later, as a member of Civil Air Patrol, a U.S. Air Force Auxiliary, he served as the Maine Wing Legal Officer.
Broder resides in Cumberland with his wife Lee. They have two married sons, Joshua and wife Eliza Ginn of Portland, and Los Angeles-based Jacob “Yank” and wife Lucy Davenport Broder and their daughter, Ella, age three, to whom Broder is and always will be “Gaga.”