About Us
Our firm is comprised of highly educated, skilled, and experienced attorneys who are committed to achieving professional excellence, maintaining the highest standards of integrity, and ensuring client satisfaction.
We believe that negotiation and collaboration provide the most efficient and effective solutions for our clients, while simultaneously maintaining our readiness to pursue litigation when necessary to protect our clients’ interests. As active members of our community, we take pride in supporting local initiatives that impact the greater Concord area, as well as statewide and regional projects involving the arts, business development, and environmental stewardship. As colleagues, we cultivate a cooperative working environment that emphasizes teamwork and mutual respect.
Our approach combines extensive legal knowledge and practical experience with personal investment in each client’s success, ensuring that your experience with our firm is both positive and productive. We provide comprehensive counsel that carefully considers not only the legal implications of your matter, but also its personal and professional ramifications. We recognize that you deserve exceptional legal representation, and we have made it our fundamental goal to deliver precisely that level of service. Our commitment extends beyond mere legal expertise to encompass a holistic understanding of how legal matters intersect with your broader objectives and concerns.
Our History
Orr & Reno has played an important role in New Hampshire’s evolution and growth since 1946. Founders Dudley Orr and Bob Reno created a firm that attracted and nurtured some of the best legal minds in the region, while cultivating a work culture that’s animated by a firmwide, passionate commitment to providing transformational legal counsel to Orr & Reno clients. Their founding principles — community engagement — combined with exemplary legal counsel and outstanding service to individuals and businesses throughout New England and the nation — continue to guide and inspire us to this day.
Our Community Involvement
Orr & Reno recognizes the importance of giving back to the community, both with contributions of money and commitments of time. Our attorneys are active on boards, committees and as volunteers in a variety of organizations throughout New Hampshire including:
- Capitol Center for the Arts
- Boys and Girls Club of Central New Hampshire
- Concord Hospital
- Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce
- Kimball-Jenkins School of Art
- New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts
- New Hampshire Humanities Council
- New Hampshire Public Radio
- Red River Theatres
- United Way of Merrimack County
Our attorneys are also active participants in the New Hampshire Bar Association and American Bar Association, serving on committees that are designed to improve the quality and effectiveness of the legal profession. Clients benefit because our attorneys will always be at the forefront of their specialty area.
Meritas
Orr & Reno is a proud member of Meritas, an established global alliance of independent, full-service law firms.
Meritas was founded over 20 years ago in response to growing difficulties with finding and hiring qualified local counsel. Meritas engages in extensive due diligence prior to inviting like-minded firms to join the non-profit alliance for their mutual benefit. Today there are more than 175 Meritas law firms worldwide, in over 70 countries. To maintain membership, firms agree to perform under the alliance’s comprehensive Quality Assurance Program, ensuring that clients receive the same high quality legal work and service from every Meritas firm worldwide.
Meritas law firms are well established in their local markets, with years of valuable practical experience in local laws and business customs. Their working knowledge of local cultural and jurisdictional issues typically exceeds that of most international law firms and facilitates positive and timely outcomes.
The Meritas model provides essential peace of mind for business owners, in-house counsel and others who can easily connect with carefully qualified, independent business legal expertise worldwide.