Drummond Woodsum, an entrepreneurial full-service law firm in Maine and New Hampshire, announced today that attorney Richard A. Spencer will be spending 6 weeks in Thailand and Burma/Myanmar, assisting with an environmental law project under the auspices of The International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP).
Dick will work with one of Burma’s ethnic minorities (Karen) developing environmental laws to manage the region’s natural resources. Burma, officially The Republic of Myanmar, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia bordered by Bangladesh, India, China, Laos and Thailand.
This is Dick’s second ISLP assignment. In 2006, he spent four months working in Ulan Bator with the Centre for Human Rights and Development (CHRD), a small public interest organization that has become a leading player in Mongolia’s environmental movement.
Of his ISLP Projects, Spencer said, “I’m excited for this opportunity and pleased that my professional experiences in Maine can be put to use helping people in developing nations in other parts of the world.”
Dick is a member of Drummond Woodsum’s Environmental & Land Use Law Practice Group in the firm’s Portland, Maine office. His practice focuses on complex problems which require effective advocacy at the local and state levels and before administrative agencies, the state courts and the Legislature.
Dick is a cum laude graduate of Harvard College and earned his law degree from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar.
About Drummond Woodsum
Drummond Woodsum is an entrepreneurial full-service law firm with more than 60 attorneys in offices in Maine and New Hampshire. The firm, founded in 1965, maintains more than 19 practice areas spanning a broad spectrum of the law with a primary focus on business, litigation, and public sector practices. Drummond Woodsum provides a wide range of services to meet the varying legal needs of some of the nation's largest corporations, start-up companies, financial institutions, colleges and universities, Indian nations and tribal enterprises, municipalities, school districts, and individuals.
About ISLP
The International Senior Lawyers Project provides the pro bono services of highly skilled and experienced lawyers to promote human rights, equitable and sustainable economic development and the rule of law worldwide. ISLP assists governments, non-governmental organizations and other institutions working to build legal capacity and to advance the rights and well-being of their citizens.
