Douglas Carr brings his nearly forty years of experience and familiarity with Maine's political and business worlds to bear on his integrated practice of administrative law, business transactions, exempt organizations, retail and health care, and government relations. Mr. Carr advises Maine-based companies in connection with their daily business activities and is often called upon to assist businesses in developing their long term strategic growth and development plans. He has been involved in major national undertakings including a reverse triangular merger with a Canadian fabless chip manufacturing company and advising a national retailer in connection with national and state antitrust issues and a Maine-based company on commercial free speech and Lanham Act litigation. He serves as Maine legal counsel for a large national retailer in the health care and specialty retail fields. Mr. Carr also serves as General Counsel to a number of small Maine businesses and several not for profit foundations in the education, environmental and business research areas. He is Of Counsel to Perkins Thompson and has previously served as a shareholder and director and on the Firm's Executive Committee for thirty eight years.

He was nominated by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate to serve as Trustee for the Dirigo Health Plan. Mr. Carr was appointed in 1998 to the Maine Blue Ribbon Commission to Study the Effects of Government Regulation and Health Care Costs on Small Businesses. In 2004, he was appointed to the Maine Drug Return Implementation Group, and in 2005 he was appointed to the Governor's Committee to Study the Feasibility of Reimportation of Prescription Drugs. Mr. Carr is also Counsel to the Southern Maine Wetlands Conservancy. He has served as Counsel and Clerk to a U.S. subsidiary of a Canadian fabless semiconductor company and is currently Local Counsel and Clerk to a national retail pharmacy company.

He currently serves as a Board Member of the Center for Grieving Children (GCG) (2010); Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence (2005) and Maine Center for Enterprise Development (MCED) (2007). He is the former Board President and Clerk for the Maine Cancer Foundation (2004-2010) and the Maine Economic Research Institute (MERI) (2004-2010) and MCAHV (2005-2010).

He is past Board Member and Officer, Portland Symphony Orchestra; past Member and Chairman of Yarmouth School Board; past Member, Maine School Board Association; past Board Member and President of Center for Educational Services; past Board Member, Maine Coalition Excellence in Education; past Member and Chair, Yarmouth Planning Board; past President, Portland Club; founding Member and counsel to Casco Bay Education Alliance; past Board Member, Shalom House.

Mr. Carr has been a presenter of seminars on Governance of Non-Profit Organizations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Bill (2007); a presenter of Seminars on Legal and Financial Aspects of Tax-Exempt Organizations (2007, 2008 and 2009); Maine Pharmacy Association, Legislative Review (2006, 2007 and 2009) and Presenter, Maine Pharmacy Regulation and Law, UNE College of Pharmacy (2011).

Mr. Carr is a Fellow of the Maine Bar Foundation. He is AV Peer Review Rated for Ethical Standards and Legal Ability by Martindale-Hubbell. He received Rite Aid's Lobbyist of the Year Award 2010.

He is married to Deidre O. Carr, a teacher at Freeport High School. Doug and Deidre continue to live in Yarmouth and are enjoying "empty nester" status as their two married daughters have both completed their formal education; one having just completed her doctoral studies in the U.K. and is living in Mexico City with her husband, and the other lives and works in the Washington, DC area with her husband and their first child Lily, born Halloween 2007. Doug enjoys reading, art, golf, downhill skiing, travel, food, and antiquing.