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Nov. 17, 2025Edition

🔒Newsworthy people and performances for Nov. 17, 2025

A roundup of new hires, promotions and achievements at businesses, nonprofits, health care operations and professional services firms in Maine.

🔒On the Record: Portland law firm Bernstein Shur eyes regional expansion

Kaveri Subbarao Nauhaus, who took the helm earlier this year, shares her take on Maine's legal landscape and growth plans for the firm.

🔒Lawyering up: Expansions, alternative models and a closure reflect churn in Maine’s legal industry

The legal industry across Maine is seeing changes in recent years, including growing staff, migrations between firms, new service models and the entry of a New Hampshire practice.

🔒Generous perk or employer headache? Maine businesses get ready for paid leave law

Maine’s new benefits law will give employees the option of taking up to 12 weeks of paid time off at up to 90% of their compensation rate. The plan is the most generous in the country, but employers, large and small, see challenges.
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🔒Building Business: In Cumberland, Great Falls Construction starts school expansion

New construction across the state includes school expansion in Cumberland, a new hotel in Bridgton, additional showroom and service space for a car dealer in Brunswick and affordable housing for seniors in Gray.

🔒Ask ACE: How do we protect the business without creating a bunch of red tape?

ACE member Laura McDowell, a certified Entrepreneurial Operating System implementer based in Portland, shares how we can protect the business without creating a bunch of red tape.

🔒Made in Maine: Shaw & Tenney’s new owners consider themselves stewards of the brand

The Orono manufacturer produces oars, paddles and spars, each drawn from time-honored patterns, then cut, refined, sanded and richly varnished.

🔒Editor’s note: Law firms not immune to change

In the past year, we’ve seen the demise of one law firm and changes in the rankings of Maine’s top firms.
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