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PORTLAND, Maine – Bernstein Shur attorney Jeffrey A. Thaler has recently been elected co-chair of the Environmental and Energy Technology Council of Maine (E2Tech). He shares this position with Jim Atwell of Sevee & Maher Engineers in Cumberland. A shareholder at Bernstein Shur, Thaler has been on the board of the Council since its founding. His recent appointment highlights both his and Bernstein Shur’s continued commitment to the environment and the organization for which it was a founding member.
Thaler, a senior member of Bernstein Shur’s Energy, Environmental, and Litigation Practice Groups, has a wide-ranging practice that includes environmental and energy permitting, compliance, enforcement and litigation, as well as litigation for clients with commercial and legal disputes, insurance coverage, personal injury, or toxic tort problems.
A resident of Yarmouth, Thaler is a 1977 graduate of the Yale University School of Law and a 1974 magna cum laude graduate of Williams College. Thaler also presently serves on the Boards of the Land for Maine’s Future, and World Affairs Council of Maine, as a member of the Greater Portland Global Communities Task Force, and as Team Coordinator for the Center for Grieving Children’s Wednesday night bereavement program. Thaler is President-Elect of the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and North American Regional Vice Chair of the Environmental Practice Group of Lex Mundi, the world’s leading association of independent law firms.
About E2Tech
An association of private companies, government agencies, educational institutions and non-profit organizations, E2Tech is committed to advancing sustainable job growth, research and development and new product commercialization.