Brent A. Singer

Brent A. Singer is senior counsel at Rudman Winchell in Bangor, Maine. His practice focuses on business and corporate matters, employment and labor law, and civil litigation. He counsels for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations on business formation, transactions, workplace questions, and disputes involving contractual obligations. His work combines transactional planning with extensive experience representing clients in state and federal court proceedings.

Brent earned a B.A. in Philosophy with distinction in 1982, an M.A. in Philosophy in 1985, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1987, all from the University of Colorado. He later graduated cum laude with a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1992. He participated in Harvard’s 1991 Ames Moot Court championship team and clerked for a Colorado Supreme Court justice before joining the firm in 1993.

His employment litigation experience includes more than one hundred proceedings involving employers, federal employment statutes, Maine human rights law, and employee benefit disputes. He helped prepare successful briefs in Bragdon v. Abbott before the United States Supreme Court in 1998. His corporate work includes private asset and equity transactions, company formation, governing agreements, nonprofit compliance, and advice concerning tax-exempt organizations and benefits requirements.

Brent A. Singer also prepares appellate briefs and has handled matters before Maine’s highest court and the First Circuit Court of Appeals. His representative work includes Voisine v. Berube and Hearts With Haiti, Inc. v. Kendrick. Outside his legal work, he has served on the Housing Foundation’s board and Orono’s Board of Assessment Appeals. This combination of business advice, litigation, and nonprofit service informs his guidance to organizational clients.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Rudman Winchell
• Member, Maine State Bar Association
• Board Member, Housing Foundation
• Board of Assessment Appeals, Town of Orono

Licensed State

• Maine

Education

• Harvard Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD) (Cum Laude)
• University of Colorado
  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Philosophy
• University of Colorado
  Master of Arts (MA) in Philosophy
• University of Colorado
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Philosophy

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