August 03, 2009
(Burlington, Vt.) Eric D. Jones, a director and chair of the Labor and Employment Law Group at Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC, presented a check for $1,000 on behalf of the DRM Community Fund to David Myers, director of the Shelburne Community School Wind Ensemble, on July 7. The ensemble has been selected to perform at Walt Disney World in March 2010 as part of the park’s “Magic Music Days” honors program, and the grant will help to defray the group’s travel and lodging expenses.
Through the DRM Community Fund, which was launched in 2000 to celebrate the firm's 50th anniversary, DRM has awarded more than $180,000 in small grants to approximately 180 private, non-profit organizations in Vermont and western New Hampshire to support innovative, grass-roots arts, education, economic development and historic preservation projects that strengthen community.
Since 2005, DRM Community Fund grants have supported organizations in which DRM directors volunteer or have some direct involvement. The grant to the wind ensemble was sponsored by Jones, whose daughter, Caroline, plays oboe with the group, along with saxophonist Charlie Maitland, the son of DRM director and labor and employment attorney John Maitland, and percussionist Amanda Whitbeck, the daughter of the firm’s legal nurse consultant Marie Whitbeck.
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for most of these students, who have practiced and performed together for hundreds of hours together to be eligible to audition and to be selected from among thousands of talented students across the nation,” Jones said. “The DRM Community Fund is pleased to be able to support the SCS Wind Ensemble and to help make this opportunity a reality.”
DRM is a full-service law firm with more than 60 attorneys and seven offices in Vermont, New Hampshire and New York. DRM provides legal services to local, national and international clients in practice areas that include bankruptcy and business restructuring, business law, captive insurance, energy and telecommunications, family law, health law, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, real estate and land use, environmental law, tax law and trusts and estates. The firm represents clients in legislative, regulatory and public affairs through the Government and Public Affairs group. DRM is the law firm member for Vermont of Lex Mundi, the world's leading association of independent law firms.
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