Bradley M. Lown - a Portsmouth, United States General Practice Lawyer

Portsmouth General Practice Lawyer

Updated: 03/10/2026

Areas of Practice

General Practice
Workers Compensation
Bankruptcy
Business
Real Estate
Family Law

Attorney Information

Overview

I reside in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with my wife of 33 years, Christyn Sieve, a psychologist, and my three children, Frances (age 27), Abigail (age 25) and Peter (age 20). We are active in the St. John's Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, where I have served on the Vestry and for the past twenty years have taught Sunday School. I enjoy skiing, tennis, hiking, swimming, weightlifting, tennis and, most of all, like most people, spending time with my family.

Since I was graduated from the Maine Law School I have been in private practice. I began with the law firm where I had clerked after my second year of law school, Cleveland, Waters and Bass, in Concord. I left that firm in October of 1986, when I became an associate at Boynton, Waldron, Doleac, Woodman and Scott in Portsmouth. I was made a partner at the Boynton firm in 1993 and practiced there until January of 2000, when I moved to the new firm of Rainboth, Coughenour & Lown, PA in Portsmouth. I have been a partner at CRM and L since then and enjoy a broad general civil practice.

For 36 years I have regularly handled and tried civil cases of all kinds, including condominium matters, personal injury, workers' compensation, social security disability, business formation and commercial litigation, bankruptcy, real estate, probate and estate planning in both NH and Maine. I have appeared in all the Superior Courts in New Hampshire, in many of the Circuit Courts, Probate Courts and in the US District Court in New Hampshire. I have appeared before various Boards, including the Department of Labor, the Board of Land and Tax Appeals, and the Department of Safety. I have argued several cases before the New Hampshire Supreme Court. In Maine I have appeared or tried cases in York, Cumberland, Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Hancock, Kennebec and Androscoggin Counties, have had many cases in the York District Court and have appeared in other District Courts. I have had two appeals to the Maine Law Court and two cases in the US District Court in Maine. I handled divorce and domestic cases for about 20 years, until 2002.

Education

Legal Education
- University of Maine School of Law, Portland, Maine, 1985
  Law Review: Maine Law Review, 1983 - 1985
Non Legal Education
- Phillips Exeter Academy, 1976
- Harvard University, 1981
  B.A.
  Honors: cum laude
  Major: History

Current Employment Position(s)

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Partner at Rainboth, Murphy, Lown, P.A.
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Published Works

Articles

Author: “Boucher v. Maine Employment Security Commission, The Role of Acceptance in Maine Employment Security Law,” Maine Law Review, Spring, 1984
Author: “Remedies of Workers’ Compensation Claimants Against Workers’ Compensation Carriers,” New Hampshire Bar Journal, Fall, 1985

Bar Admissions

New Hampshire, 1985
Maine, 1987

Other Affiliations

Candidate, NH House of Representatives , 1988 - Present
Member, Portsmouth Building Code Board of Appeals , 1988 - 1990
Board member, Warner House Association , 1987 - 1990
President – Harvard-Radcliffe Club of New Hampshire , 1995 - 1998
President – Portsmouth Historical Society , 1999 - 2001
Chairman – New Hampshire Hearing Care Board , 1998 - 2001
Proprietor – Portsmouth Atheneum (, 1995 - Present
Chairman and Founder – Seacoast Citizens Overseeing Pease Environment , 1990 - 1999
Member – Portsmouth School Board , 1990 - 1993
Member – Portsmouth City Council (2002-2003) and (2012 to 2018)
Trustee – City of Portsmouth Trust Funds , 2007 - 2011
Commissioner – Wentworth Coolidge Commission – Portsmouth NH (appointed by Governor Lynch)
Little League Coach , 2008 - 2010
Youth Basketball Coach , 2008 - 2010
Member, St John’s Vestry , 1998 - 2001
Founder – Seacoast Academy – (now Heronfield School, Exeter)
President – Portsmouth Athenaeum (2020-2021), 2020 - 2021
New Hampshire Bar Association , 1985 - Present
Maine Bar Association , 1987 - Present
American Trial Lawyers Association
N.H. Trial Lawyers Association
New Hampshire State and Federal Courts , 1985 - Present
Maine State and Federal Courts , 1987 - Present

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Portsmouth, NH

439 Middle Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801

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