Adam M. Dumville

Adam M. Dumville is a Director at McLane Middleton and Chair of the firm’s Administrative Law Department. Based in Portsmouth, with additional office listings in Concord and Manchester, he focuses on environmental and energy matters. His work includes environmental permitting, compliance counseling, energy facility siting, enforcement defense, environmental litigation, real estate, land use, and government regulation for businesses, municipalities, and individuals.

Adam earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Vermont Law School and his B.A. from Providence College. In law school, he served as an article editor on the Vermont Law Review and completed a judicial internship with Judge Peter W. Hall of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He also interned with US EPA Region 1 and the Environmental Protection Unit of the Vermont Attorney General’s Office.

Adam advises clients on federal, state, and local environmental requirements involving statutes such as the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, CERCLA, RCRA, and other regulatory programs. His representative work includes air and water matters, hazardous-waste disputes, energy facility permitting, CERCLA actions, industrial wastewater, mining permits, brownfields, PFAS regulation, wetlands, shoreland matters, and environmental due diligence. Earlier roles included assistant district attorney, judicial law clerk, and environmental claims adjuster.

Adam M. Dumville is admitted in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and the US District Court for the District of New Hampshire. His recent recognitions include Best Lawyers in America for Environmental Law for 2027, Chambers USA Environmental recognition in 2025, and Chambers USA Up and Coming recognition for Environment in 2023 and 2024. His practice combines regulatory counseling, litigation, permitting, and enforcement defense across environmental and energy matters.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, McLane Middleton
• Member, New Hampshire Bar Association
• Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
• Vice Chair, New Hampshire Bar Association, Environmental and Natural Resources Section (2015-2017)
• Member, American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER)
• Executive Board, Boy Scouts of America, Daniel Webster Council (2022-Present)
• Vice Chair, Board of Professional Geologists, Office of Professional Licensure and Certification (2017-2021)
• Sustainability Committee, Town of Exeter (2021-2024)
• Member, New Hampshire Business and Industry Association, Manufacturing & End Users Committee
• Member, Environmental Business Council of New England
• Member, Leadership New Hampshire (Class of 2020)

Licensed State

• New Hampshire
• Massachusetts

Education

• Vermont Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Providence College
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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