Dana Bisbee is the head of the firm's Environmental Practice Group, and also a member of the Energy and Regulatory Affairs Practice Group. He focuses his practice on environmental and land use law and government relations. On environmental matters, he provides advice and counseling on state, federal, and local permitting issues, enforcement, site remediation and transactional matters. His practice involves extensive negotiations with state and federal regulators; wastewater, wetlands, and hazardous waste permitting and enforcement matters, and administrative proceedings before state and federal quasi-judicial boards. His land use work includes representation of residential, commercial and resort developers, energy facilities and discrete matters for municipal clients. Dana is also a member of Devine Millimet's Government Relations Practice Group, representing clients on environmental issues in the state Legislature and on state agency rulemaking.

Dana joined Devine Millimet in 2009, after 6 years as a partner in the Environmental and Land Use Practice Group at the Portsmouth, NH office of Pierce Atwood, LLP. Prior to that he served as Assistant Commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES), a position he held for seven years. During his last 18 months with the agency he also served as its Acting Commissioner. He worked closely with stakeholders on water law and policy -- especially on large groundwater withdrawals, stream flow protection, and wetlands regulation. Dana was actively engaged in the resolution of complex permitting issues involving large industrial facilities, energy and transportation projects, and commercial development. He championed DES's development of a comprehensive compliance assurance policy, and dealt regularly with difficult enforcement matters. Among Dana's achievements at DES was the agency's renewed focus on strategic planning, performance-based management, the management of environmental information, and data quality. He co-chaired the State-EPA Information Management Workgroup, a high-level committee promoting the information management partnership between states and EPA.

Dana began his legal career in the New Hampshire Attorney General's office and served in that office for 14 years. In the last five years of his tenure there, he was the state's Deputy Attorney General. Before that, he spent eight years in the Environmental Protection Bureau, including two years as the Bureau Chief.

EDUCATION:

Dartmouth College (1974), A.B., magna cum laude, in French Literature
Georgetown University Law Center (1981), J.D., where he was a Law Fellow and instructor and co-director of legal research and writing and oral advocacy

BAR ADMISSSIONS:

New Hampshire
U.S. District Court, District of New Hampshire
U.S. Supreme Court