Family Law

• Divorce
  Collaborative divorce is a process in which the parties focus on cooperative problem-solving without taking their case to court. Each party hires a lawyer who is specially trained to use negotiation tools and methods designed to meet the interests and needs of the parties to the dispute. In many cases, a licensed mental health practitioner works with the parties and their attorneys as a neutral facilitator to keep the process moving forward.
• Child Support
  Our attorneys handle divorces at all levels of complexity. We have particular experience in divorces involving family businesses, complicated compensation arrangements, and inherited wealth. Many of our family law attorneys have broad experience in business law, real estate, estate planning, and business litigation that gives us the ability to recognize and solve problems quickly and efficiently. We also help clients deal with parental rights and parent-child contact (visitation) disputes, child support issues, and spousal maintenance (alimony) issues. We are experienced advocates in mediation, and we have extensive training as mediators ourselves. We are experienced trial attorneys and fully prepared to present your case at trial in the event all reasonable efforts to collaborate, negotiate, and mediate cannot produce an agreement. Whatever the forum, our goal is to help our clients obtain as much financial and emotional security for themselves and their children as the circumstances allow, and to retain their dignity and self-respect throughout this difficult process.
• Child Custody and Visitation
  Our team works with grandparents who are being denied access to their grandchildren and need the court’s help to establish visitation with their grandchildren.
• Adoption
• Guardianship
  Our team can help clients obtain a guardianship for an elderly or sick person and we can provide financial and health care powers of attorney if needed.
• Spousal Support

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  We have successfully represented hundreds of clients in criminal proceedings. Our experienced criminal defense attorneys offer creative, client-centered representation in every variety of criminal case. We are committed to thoroughly investigating the law and facts in each case and developing the best strategy to protect and defend our client.
• DUI/DWI
  Biography Devin focuses his practice on litigation – primarily criminal law, DUI/DWI law, family law, and personal injury. He also frequently handles appeals to the Vermont Supreme Court and the...
• Wrongful Death
• Sex Crimes
  We represent clients charged with both misdemeanors and felonies, and have experience with a range of cases, from minor infractions to homicide. Our work covers DUI and other traffic-related charges, drug crimes, fraud and embezzlement, property crimes such as burglary and robbery, and violent crimes including assault, sexual assault, and homicide.
• Robbery
• Burglary
• White Collar Crimes
  Criminal charges in the business setting require special consideration and planning. We have the experience and the resources to evaluate a case and tailor a strategy designed to meet our client’s specific concerns.
• Misdemeanors
• Embezzlement
• Drug Crimes
• Assault
• Identity Theft
  The privacy and security of your information is important to us. You can be confident knowing your personal information is secured and kept private, protecting you against potential identity theft and fraud. We encourage you to read this Information Privacy Notice.
• Homicide

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Alison Bell has provided PCC with essential guidance in employment law for over 20 years. More recently her assistance has extended to general corporate law, particularly in the interpretation and creation of contracts. She has always done an excellent job walking the fine line between legal and practical advice, while appreciating our empathetic corporate culture. Her guidance has provided us the confidence to make difficult decisions quickly and effectively. Thank you, Alison!
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  We are seeking a lateral partner with experience in commercial transactional matters to join Langrock Sperry & Wool in our Burlington or Middlebury, Vermont offices. This is an opportunity to join a collaborative team of Partners to represent clients in a broad range of business and investment matters, including the purchase, sale and financing of real estate as well as business formation, mergers and acquisitions. Submit resume and letter of inquiry to Erin Miller Heins, Hiring Partner, Langrock Sperry & Wool, LLP, 210 College Street, PO Box 721, Burlington, VT 05401
• Business Formation
  We are accepting applications for an associate attorney with three to six years of experience in commercial transactional matters to join our firm. This is an opportunity to work with our team of transactional attorneys to represent firm clients in a broad range of business and investment matters, including the purchase, sale and financing of real estate as well as business formation, purchases and sales. Submit resume and letter of inquiry to Erin Miller Heins, Hiring Partner, Langrock Sperry & Wool, LLP, 210 College Street, PO Box 721, Burlington, VT 05401 eheins@langrock.com www.langrock.com
• Business Disputes
  We believe that good legal planning can often help avoid business disputes. When necessary, however, our experienced trial attorneys can represent clients—from small, family-owned businesses or farms to multi-national corporations—in all types of litigation. Our team approach, supported by a highly qualified staff, allows us to handle cases from the simple to the most complex in an efficient and cost-effective manner. We use common sense and creativity to solve problems, using negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and litigation as appropriate. Most of our trial attorneys also have transactional experience and we pride ourselves on understanding your business.
• Business Transactions
  We represent individuals and businesses in the purchasing, financing, leasing, and selling of all kinds of real estate, from single-family residences to multi-state commercial transactions. We are agents for First American Title Insurance Company, and can assist you with title insurance.
• Trade Secrets
• Unfair Competition
  We handle the full range of tort claims that businesses may encounter, including intentional interference with contract, breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and unfair competition.

Employment Law

• Workers Compensation
• Wrongful Termination
  We defend employers against any wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, family and medical leave, overtime, or other employee claim.
• Employment Discrimination
  We work with clients to ensure compliance with the numerous and complex federal and state statutes and regulations affecting the workplace, including: discrimination statutes such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Vermont’s Fair Employment Practices Act; the federal and Vermont laws requiring family, parental, medical, and military leave; overtime laws including the Fair Labor Standards Act; benefits statutes such as COBRA and ERISA; and unemployment and workers’ compensation laws.
• Employment Contract
  Our attorneys handle a broad range of employment and labor-relations matters. From negotiating employment agreements to resolving work-place disputes, our team has the experience and expertise to guide clients through all aspects of the employment relationship. We provide proactive advice to minimize disputes and to seek solutions before problems become time-consuming and costly lawsuits. But when litigation is needed, we have the skills, resources, and resolve to advocate our clients’ interest. Whether preventing litigation or resolving it, we employ a common sense and cost-effective approach to problem-solving, and work as a team with our colleagues and our clients.
• Employment Litigation
  Our team of employment attorneys represents employers and employees in any wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, overtime, breach of contract, or other employment claim. We appear regularly in state and federal courts, and before government agencies (such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the United States and Vermont Departments of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Civil Rights Unit of the Vermont Office of the Attorney General), litigating the full scope of employment claims.
• Severance Agreement
  We routinely represent and consult with employers and employees in negotiating and reviewing all types of employment agreements, including contracts, covenants not to compete, non-disclosure agreements, non-solicitation agreements, anti-raiding covenants, trade secret agreements, and severance packages. We draft, review, and negotiate the terms of these agreements on behalf of employers and individuals, and we represent clients in disputes that arise from these agreements.
• Sexual Harassment
  We believe that good advice can often help prevent lawsuits. Therefore, we provide a full range of services designed to avoid claims, including: preparation of employee handbooks, policies, and procedures; training and counseling on issues ranging from sexual harassment to disability accommodation requests; and advice on discipline and terminations.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  We represent individuals and businesses, including title insurance companies, in all types of property law disputes, including title defects, boundary disputes, easement issues, adverse possession claims and public and private road issues.
• Premises Liability
  Biography Jim’s trial practice includes representing plaintiffs in personal injury and wrongful death cases, as well as automobile accidents, ski area liability, premises liability, fire and farming accidents, and professional...
• Construction Litigation
  Biography Kevin handles all aspects of insurance coverage, municipal, land use, personal injury, and construction law, both at the trial and appellate levels. Kevin also represents injured employees in worker’s compensation...
• Real Estate Transactions
  Biography Vince’s practice focuses on commercial real estate transactions, business deals, entity governance, and Vermont cannabis licensure. He provides counsel to both individuals and businesses to help them achieve their...
• Easement
• Land Use and Zoning
  Our attorneys have experience and expertise in all aspects of real estate and land use law, and are supported by a highly qualified staff. Whether you’re buying your first home or developing a major project, we can help you achieve your goals.
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
  Within the firm itself, our attorneys regularly act in a traditional pro bono sense—representing clients of limited means, without pay, in all sorts of matters, ranging from family law proceedings to landlord-tenant disputes to collection claims. We also answer legal questions, in appropriate circumstances, for those who cannot afford to pay. Living in a small and mostly rural state, we hope that no one will go without sound legal advice simply because of financial circumstances.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
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• Medicaid Planning
  Biography Ren represents clients in estate planning and administration, elder law, Medicaid planning, residential and commercial real estate, corporate law, municipal and land use matters (including property tax, planning, zoning...

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  It is often possible to correct even substantial estate planning problems after death. Over the years we have assisted clients in reducing or eliminating estate taxes, correcting flawed estate plans, and bringing into effect otherwise invalid estate planning documents—even after death.
• Wills
  Our attorneys defend and prosecute these claims. We represent clients in Probate Court, Superior Court, and the Vermont Supreme Court in cases challenging last wills, trusts, and estate plans.
• Trusts
  Charitable giving—the voluntary philanthropy that can leave lasting legacies in our communities—can be an important part of estate planning. We work with clients to achieve charitable giving goals by structuring gifts, creating charitable trusts, working with charities, or establishing a foundation of the client’s own design.
• Power of Attorney
  We provide both health care and financial powers of attorney, including Vermont’s Advance Directive for Health Care Decision-Making, to express clients’ wishes should they be unable to do so in the future.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
• Tax Law
  We are accepting applications for an associate attorney with two to five years of relevant experience or academic background in the areas of estate planning, tax planning, and/or estate and trust administration to join our growing Estate Planning and Probate practice. We serve a broad range of clients in personal, business succession, charitable, and sophisticated estate and tax planning matters. Excellent written and oral communication skills and research abilities are required. Candidates with a genuine interest in private client representation and document drafting are preferred. Submit a resume and letter of inquiry to Erin Miller Heins, Hiring Partner, Langrock Sperry & Wool, LLP, 210 College Street, PO Box 721, Burlington, VT 05401 eheins@langrock.com www.langrock.com