Our Organization

Rudman & Winchell is a full-service law firm located in Bangor, Maine. Our attorneys practice national caliber law while enjoying the many benefits of life in the unsurpassed beauty of Maine. We handle the same sophisticated legal challenges in litigation, securities, banking, energy, corporations, estate planning, employment, immigration, and environmental law as large city law firms across the country. At the same time, we practice in Maine courts and with the Maine bar, where civility and attention to quality remain the expectation rather than the exception.

Rudman & Winchell’s practice is organized into three sections: Litigation, Employment, and Transactions. Within these sections we offer a full range of legal practice areas. Our structure is flexible, however, and practice groups that cut across sections and practice areas are formed to meet client needs and provide integrated service.

Our proximity to Canada offers opportunities for international business practice. Our attorneys are encouraged to participate actively in the life of their communities. They serve on volunteer boards and in appointed and elected positions of leadership throughout the Penobscot River valley and across Maine.

Our Associates

With more than 30 attorneys, we are large enough to provide challenging and continually fresh practice opportunities and small enough to know and appreciate each of our colleagues and associates. New associates are selected and hired with the expectation that they have the ability and commitment to become a member of our Limited Liability Company.

Our associates are active and important members of our team as soon as they join our firm. Rudman & Winchell associates are encouraged to undertake independent work assignments and direct client contact early in their careers. We expect, and we underwrite, regular and continuing associate participation in Continuing Legal Education seminars and workshops.

Summer Internships

Normally two or three law students are offered an internship with Rudman & Winchell’s legal team each summer. An internship typically extends from late May through August and affords an opportunity to advance professionally while enjoying Maine’s unsurpassed summer. Capable summer interns are in a position to be offered permanent employment with Rudman & Winchell following graduation.

Rudman & Winchell summer interns divide their work among the firm’s Litigation, Transactions, and Employment Sections. Our attorneys assign interns active responsibilities in ongoing matters. Summer interns work closely with individual supervising attorneys in carrying out their assignments.

Throughout the summer our interns are actively encouraged to attend depositions, closings, document executions, hearings and trials, and appropriate meetings with clients. Interns regularly join our attorneys for weekly administrative meetings and enjoy a real opportunity to learn about Rudman & Winchell’s practice.

Compensation and Benefits

Rudman & Winchell offers competitive salaries and comprehensive employee benefits. Starting salary depends upon an applicant’s academic credentials and work experience. Benefits include:

• up to four weeks paid vacation per year,
• health, dental, life, disability and long-term care insurance,
• dependent care and medical expense savings plans,
• 401(k) retirement savings plan,
• ABA and Maine State Bar Association dues, and
• registration fees for Continuing Legal Education seminar attendance.

Contact Information

To learn more about professional legal employment opportunities at Rudman & Winchell, please contact our Hiring Member:

For more information regarding paralegal and support staff positions at Rudman & Winchell, please, contact our Human Resources Director:

About Bangor

The City of Bangor lies on the western shore of the Penobscot River 20 miles upriver from the Atlantic Ocean and Penobscot Bay, site of world class sailing. The Kenduskeag Stream flows through the city, emptying into the Penobscot River in the downtown area at the city’s attractive river front. A city of 33,000, Bangor is the gateway to the great northern Maine forest, a four-hour drive from Boston and an equal distance from Quebec City. The flagship campus of the University of Maine is six miles north of Bangor in the neighboring town of Orono. Acadia National Park and the recreation resources of Mount Desert Island, Mount Katahdin and Baxter State Park, the Allagash wilderness region, and the ski slopes at Sugarloaf Mountain and Sunday River are all an easy drive from Bangor.

First incorporated in 1791, Bangor by the 1850’s was the lumber capital of the world. The dominant forest product of the twentieth century is paper, and Bangor remains the source of commercial services for the important pulpwood and paper industry of central and northern Maine. Bangor is a commercial hub for northern New England and eastern Canada and provides legal, medical, banking and finance, accounting, entertainment, and retail services to the entire region of central and upper Maine, lower Quebec and New Brunswick, and the maritime provinces. Bangor has a major full-service international airport, big enough to handle the Concorde, and is the closest U.S. Port of Entry to Europe.

Bangor’s Eastern Maine Medical Center and St. Joseph Hospital provide sophisticated medical services including open heart surgery and advanced oncology care. Bangor enjoys a rich religious and ethnic heritage and sustains three Jewish synagogues, a Mormon stake, two Roman Catholic churches, a Greek Orthodox church, and two dozen Protestant churches. The venerable Bangor Symphony Orchestra, Bangor’s Penobscot Theatre, and the Maine Center for the Arts at the nearby University of Maine at Orono offer fine productions in music, dance, and theater arts year round.

The city’s low crime rate, affordable housing, excellent health care services, high quality public schools, university resources, cultural productions, and the recreational opportunities offered by the nearby ocean and by the mountains, woods, and waterways of Maine combine to make Bangor a jewel of a small city and a wonderful place to live and work.