Our firm represents people, not businesses or institutions. We focus on personal injury litigation and employment law. We represent people who have been injured due to the fault of others and employees in disputes with their employers or former employers.Why? We want to make our living doing work that is worthwhile. Early in my career, I represented all sides in many kinds of disputes. But I simply didn?t find it satisfying to represent insurance companies and big businesses. It is true that businesses must pay attention to the bottom line. But many companies don?t seem to care about anything ...
I'm a trial lawyer. I'm admitted to the Vermont Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, the New York Bar, and U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont. I'm a member of the American Association for Justice, the Vermont Association for Justice, the Vermont Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the NYSBA, the NYSTLA, and the DC Bar Association. My practice focuses on plaintiff's personal injury....
Tristan Christopher Larson is a trial attorney who focuses on insurance claims and lawsuits for personal injuries, medical malpractice, and family law. He has represented injured Vermonters since 2007. "Helping people navigate our complex legal system is a great privilege. I am proud to stand beside my clients, whether they are dealing with serious injuries or facing difficult permitting problems. I provide them with outstanding legal representation."Tristan grew up on a dairy farm in Rutland County before heading to Michigan for undergraduate school. After college, he returned to Vermont to ...
I have been with the firm for almost 20 years, and I am a partner. I specialize in helping people with their workers? compensation and personal injury claims because it is personally rewarding for me when I am able to help an injured person get the benefits that they deserve, and I am able to hold an insurance company accountable. Having an injury can be very difficult and I know that insurance companies often do not treat people fairly. My clients like me because I am passionate about their claims and don?t give up! It is obvious that I enjoy what I do. I understand that the legal process is...
Erin Gallivan has been representing Vermonters in workers compensation claims for 21 years. She graduated from Lehigh University in 1993 and Northeastern University School of Law in 1998. After law school, she clerked with a federal judge in Vermont. Erin also does estate planning, real estate, and advise condo/homeowner associations, small businesses, and independent schools. She lives in Brandon, Vermont with my husband and two children....
Bill concentrates his practice on matters involving negligence including products liability, medical malpractice, wrongful death, brain injuries, and cerebral palsy claims. Bill has successfully resolved (either through trial or settlement) complex personal injury claims for over 30 years including those involving:? A brain injury which occurred when the surgeon entered into patients brain while removing sinus polyps? Cerebral Palsy and other brain injuries caused by an anesthesiologist who administered an adult dose of anesthetic to a six-month-old infant? The death of a nineteen-year-old cau...
I became an attorney so I could help ordinary people fight for the things they are entitled to. Before becoming an attorney, I worked in the construction industry, where I saw firsthand how hardworking people do not always get a fair shake. At Biggam Fox Skinner LLP, I focus on helping people win workers? compensation and personal injury claims. I work closely with my clients and our paralegals to present the strongest case possible. I am very detail-oriented and learn the specifics of each case by really listening to my clients and what they need. Although the legal process can be long, I ma...
A native of Dummerston, Vermont, Will is a graduate of Yale University (history) and received his law degree in 1992 from the University of New Mexico School of Law. He began his law career as a litigator, as one of only two associates working with the nationally recognized trial lawyer, Randi McGinn, in Albuquerque, NM. His trial lawyer practice focused on wrongful death, catastrophic injury, employment discrimination and insurance bad faith litigation. For eight additional years, Will operated his own firm and expanded his specialties to include business transactions, business formation, com...
Aggressive Criminal Defense and Plaintiff's Personal Injury....
Vermont personal injury lawyer Steven A. Bredice limits his practice to plaintiff?s civil litigation, with a heavy emphasis on accidents, medical malpractice, products liability and wrongful death cases. Admitted to all state and federal courts in Vermont as well as the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Attorney Bredice has successfully tried numerous cases to verdict before juries throughout Vermont. A former insurance defense lawyer whose practice is now devoted to representing only the injured, attorney Bredice has a behind-the-scenes knowledge of insurance company settlement and litigation...
Kalter, Kalter & Mabey are top Vermont workers? compensation attorneys, dedicated to representing workers who have been injured at work.Karen is a native Vermonter who has spent most of her life living in the Rutland area. After graduating from Vermont Law School, cum laude, she worked as a defense attorney with a particular interest in professional malpractice. Since founding Kalter & Kalter with Todd, she ?crossed the v? and has represented injured and disabled persons, in workers? compensation, social security disability and personal injury....
I have been practicing law in Vermont since 1979 and am a founding partner of the firm. I take great satisfaction in fighting for injured workers or accident victims who are being treated unfairly by insurance companies. Before starting my legal career, I worked in many different job settings. I was a schoolteacher, hospital aide, factory worker, construction laborer, and farm hand. I understand the difficulties that face workers in these different job sites, and the problems that arise when you are injured. One important legal issue I helped clarify was the right to vocational rehabilitatio...
Mike has many years of experience as a partner at one of the Upper Valley?s personal injury law firms and is passionate about helping injured persons get the compensation they deserve. Mike is uniquely caring and personally supportive of his clients while at the same time diligent, aggressive and knowledgeable in fighting the insurance companies in personal injury and workers? compensation cases throughout Vermont and New Hampshire. Being licensed to practice in both Vermont and New Hampshire affords Mike tremendous flexibility when handling complex personal injury cases that have jurisdictio...
Vermont Trial Lawyer who offer compassionate representation to injured people and workers' while fighting tirelessly to protect your legal rights and get you the benefits and settlement you deserve. My practice focuses on auto accidents, personal injury, and worker's compensation claims....
The Affolter Gannon law firm is uniquely suited to fight for the rights of victims injured in accidents because Mike Gannon and Dick Affolter used to be among Vermont's premiere insurance defense lawyers. The AG team were the attorneys insurance companies called when claims were asserted against them. In fact, Mike and Dick received awards from insurance companies and were asked to instruct their adjusters how to handle legal issues. A little more than ten years ago, AG made the decision to "switch teams" and to represent injured claimants who are being treated unfairly by insurance companie...
Kalter, Kalter & Mabey are top Vermont workers? compensation attorneys, dedicated to representing workers who have been injured at work.Todd has been an avid outdoorsman from an early age. Since graduating from Vermont Law School, he has focused solely on representing injured workers. He and his wife, Karen, established Kalter & Kalter in 1997. He has been named a Fellow of the College of Workers? Compensation Lawyers, named one of the Best Lawyers in America since 2004 and also named in the workers? compensation practice area of New England Super Lawyers. When not representing injured...
David I. Schoen has dedicated his working life to helping those who have been injured or have become ill. This means treating each individual with the respect that they deserve, relieving them of the stress resulting from the burdens of processing their claims and guiding them through the maze of obstacles standing in their way of making a full physical, mental and financial recovery....
I make it easy for injured people to get paid and move on after an accident. No one wants to find themselves on an injury lawyer?s website.You never imagined it would be you or someone you love who needs an injury lawyer. But everything changed in that instant and now you?re stressed and confused about what to do next.? Was the kid behind you texting and driving when she rear-ended your family at a stop light? ? Was an impatient driver passing on a busy stretch of Route 7, when he collided with your car head on? ? Were you out biking with friends along Lake Champlain when a driver clipped your...
I have been practicing law for more than 40 years, and I am a founding partner in the firm. I have chosen to specialize in helping people with personal injuries because I care. I represent injured workers in their workers? compensation claims and people who have been injured due to the negligence of others. One case that was particularly meaningful for me was when I represented a man who had been a laborer all of his life. He was essentially at the end of his career and he fell and injured his back. He had no high school diploma and he was functionally illiterate. My client was filled with co...
John has tried numerous cases to verdict and has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America for both Plaintiff?s Personal Injury and Commercial Litigation, and by The American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel as a top commercial litigation lawyer. He holds an AV rating from Martindale Hubbell. He frequently presents seminars on trial techniques and jury selection. He is a past president of the Vermont Association for Justice and served on its Board of Governors. From 1993 to 2006, he also was a member of the Board of Governors of the American Association for Justice. John served as the Vermont Bar...
David is a graduate of the University of Vermont and Vermont Law School, where he was awarded a Juris Doctorate, cum laude. He is licensed in Vermont since 1991 and has extensive experience in a variety of legal matters. His practice presently focuses on claims for bodily injury and representing debtors in bankruptcy. He has extensive courtroom experience in the State Superior Courts as well as Federal Bankruptcy Court....
Attorney Pettersen's practice includes employment law, family law, personal injury, probate, landlord-tenant, governmental law, and business transactions and litigation.Attorney Pettersen grew up in Montpelier, Vermont and graduated from the University of Vermont, majoring in Political Science and minoring in Economics. He graduated cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was an Associate Editor of the University of Illinois Law Review and a nominee for the Paul Lisnek Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy. Attorney Pettersen was a law clerk for two state trial co...
I focus my practice helping people who are injured in accidents to get compensated for their losses and to defend people who are accused of crimes....
I have been representing injured workers for 16 years. I specialize in representing injured workers in their workersâ compensation claims and people who have been injured due to the negligence of others. I get excited about championing the underdog or someone who has been treated unfairly.I enjoy technical medical and legal issues and pushing for what I think is right even if it is not a popular position or even if it may be very difficult or time-consuming.When I was younger, I was involved in competitive skiing and I was an NCAA four time All American, and competed in the 1988 Calgary Olymp...
John Brady has over 20 years of litigation and trial experience in state and federal courts. He has tried over 40 cases to jury verdict , and countless other cases which have resolved short of verdict, and has been lead counsel on 16 appeals. John has been practicing law since 1991, initially in Boston, Massachusetts and since 1993 primarily in Vermont. John was the president of the Windsor County Bar Association from 1996-2002 and is past Chairman of the Vermont Bar Association?s Tort Liability Committee. While with the Boston Firm Clinton & Muzyka, P.C., before moving to Vermont, Joh...
Board Certified as a Specialist in Civil Trial Law by the NBTA Past President, Vermont Trial Lawyers Association Listed in ?Best Lawyers in America? in personal injury and medical malpractice law ? the only Plaintiff?s attorney in Southern Vermont Rated AV by Martindale & Hubbell ? the highest rating given Listed in ?Super Lawyers of New England? Past State Delegate, Association of Trial Lawyers of America Vermont Coordinator, National Board of Trial Advocacy Member, American Board of Trial Advocates Member, Vermont Bar Association Member, Million Dollar Advocates Forum ? membership limite...