8:00-8:30
8:30-8:45
8:45-9:15
All 1Ls: Registration and Breakfast - Chase Breezeway
All 1Ls: Introduction/Overview of the Day - Chase Center
All 1Ls: Strengths Finder Overview with Marc Smiley, Decisions Decisions - Chase Center
9:15-9:30 Break
9:30-10:45 Group A:
Chase Center
Strengths Finder Workshop with Marc Smiley
9:30-10:45 Group B:
Court Room (Oakes 109/110)
Employer Perspectives - What Do Lawyers Do?
Attorney Panelists:
Laura Q. Pelosi, Anthony Iarrapino
Lori A. Anthony, Doug Ebeling
Mark Sciarrotta
Moderator: Matthew Houde - Office of Career Services
10:45-11:00 Break -- Students change rooms
11:00-12:15 Group A:
Court Room (Oakes 109/110)
Employer Perspectives - What Do Lawyers Do?
Attorney Panelists:
Laura Q. Pelosi, Anthony Iarrapino
Lori A. Anthony, Doug Ebeling
Mark Sciarrotta
Moderator: Abby Armstrong - Office of Career Services
11:00-12:15 Group B:
Chase Center
Strengths Finder Workshop with Marc Smiley
12:15-1:30 All 1Ls:
Chase Center
Lunch/Strengths Finder Wrap up/Ideas to Action/Q&A with Marc Smiley
1:30-1:45 Break
1:45 - 3:15 Group A:
Chase Center
The Fine Art of Small Talk - How to Start a
Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills - and Leave a Positive Impression! with Debra Fine
1:45 - 3:15 Group B:
Court Room (Oakes 109/110)
Employer Perspectives - How to Interview
Attorney Panelists:
Laura Q. Pelosi, Anthony Iarrapino
Lori A. Anthony, Doug Ebeling
Mark Sciarrotta
Moderator: Abby Armstrong - Office of Career Services
3:15-3:30 Break -- Students change rooms
3:30-5:00 Group A:
Court Room (Oakes 109/110)
Employer Perspectives - How to Interview
Attorney Panelists:
Laura Q. Pelosi, Anthony Iarrapino
Lori A. Anthony, Doug Ebeling
Mark Sciarrotta
Moderator: Matthew Houde - Office of Career Services
3:30-5:00 Group B:
Chase Center
The Fine Art of Small Talk - How to Start a
Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills - and Leave a Positive Impression! with Debra Fine

8:30-9:00
9:00-9:15
All 1Ls: Registration and Breakfast - Chase Breezeway
All 1Ls: Introduction/Overview of the Day - Chase Center
9:15-10:30 Group A:
Court Room (Oakes 109/110)
Student Perspectives on
How to Get a Summer Internship/Job
Student Panelists:
Jonathan Voegele JD ‘12
Molly Owens
Colin Hagan
JD/MELP ‘11
JD ‘12
Katie Polonsky JD ‘12
Siobhan McIntyre JD ‘11
Moderator: Abby Armstrong - Office of Career Services
9:15-10:30
Chase Center
Group B:
Business Etiquette Seminar with Dan Post Senning, The Emily Post Institute
10:30-10:45 Break -- Students change rooms
10:45-12:00 Group A:
Chase Center
Business Etiquette Seminar with Dan Post Senning, The Emily Post Institute
10:45-12:00 Group B:
Court Room (Oakes 109/110)
Student Perspectives on
How to Get a Summer Internship/Job
Student Panelists:
Jonathan Voegele JD ‘12
Molly Owens
Colin Hagan
JD/MELP ‘11
JD ‘12
Katie Polonsky JD ‘12
Siobhan McIntyre JD ‘11
Moderator: Abby Armstrong - Office of Career Services
12:00-1:00 All 1Ls:
Chase Center
Lunch/Business Etiquette Q&A Session with Dan Post Senning
1:00-4:30 All 1Ls: Mock Interviews
1:00-1:30
1:30-2:00
2:00-2:15 Break
2:15-2:45
2:45-3:15
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-4:00
Interview Session 1
Interview Session 2
Interview Session 3
Interview Session 4
Interview Session 5
Interview Session 6
4:30-6:00
Chase Center
All 1Ls, mock interviewers, and volunteers
Networking Reception
4:30-5:00

and fundraising planning and training. Marc has worked extensively with groups focused on conservation, historic preservation, energy and sustainability, affordable housing, and health and human services. Marc has also published books on board governance, strategic planning, and fundraising, as well as dozens of articles in journals and periodicals.
Marc has served in staff leadership roles with the Oregon Natural Resource Council, River
Network, the Yakima Greenway Foundation and the Land Trust Alliance. Marc has also served on the boards of the Columbia Land
Trust, Online Networking for the Environment
(ONE-NW), and REACH Community
Development. College includes a degree from the University of Oregon with education that spans the spectrum of the communications arts
– from journalism to classical rhetoric.
Every experience is an opportunity to learn.
For Marc, those experiences include more than 20 years as a consultant to nonprofit organizations nationwide. It includes key staff leadership roles helping to grow and strengthen organizations. It includes key stints as a volunteer leader with organizations that make a difference. Together these experiences have provided perspective, understanding, and passion for effective community service. They also provide stories that can inform, inspire, and offer a certain lightness to a learning situation.
Marc is a native Oregonian whose efforts to migrate elsewhere can’t overcome a homing instinct. Marc’s head is full of music that spans an eclectic mix, and he can find the perfect lyric from an obscure rock song if the circumstances warrant it. Sadly, it seldom does. Family is important and with his wife
Amy, raising two boys to become great men may be their most important role. At twelve and sixteen, the jury is still out.
Marc’s consulting experience has taken him to nearly every state in the U.S., working in the areas of board governance, strategic planning, board-staff relations, organizational structure,
Keynote speaker, corporate trainer and bestselling author, Debra Fine is a former engineer who developed her workshop to help teach conversation skills and business

networking techniques for use at receptions, conferences, meetings, and other business or social events.
Debra is a 15+ year member of the National
Speakers Association and has done presentations to clients around the world, including General Electric, Credit Suisse First
Boston, the American Bar Association, Duke
Energy Corporation, and Cisco Systems.
Daniel Post Senning is the great-greatgrandson of Emily Post and an author and spokesperson for The Emily Post
Institute. Dan is additionally the manager of web development and online content for
EmilyPost.com as well as a presenter of the
Emily Post Business Etiquette Seminar series.
He is currently working in collaboration with his aunt and cousins to write the 18th edition of Emily Post’s Etiquette , scheduled for publication in September, 2011.
In his presentation on business dining etiquette, Daniel Post Senning will cover both the practical and the social aspects of the dining experience. Beginning with basic dining know-how, such as navigating table settings, where to place a napkin, and how to hold a knife and fork, Dan will expand his discussion to include concerns unique to a business-style meal, such as table small talk, settling the bill, and how to handle awkward situations.
Her best selling first book, The Fine Art of
Small Talk, was met with excellent reviews in the Library Journal, USA Today, and
Entrepreneur Magazine, and the newly released The Fine Art of the Big Talk: How to Win Clients, Deliver Great Presentations, and Solve Conflicts at Work is the second in the “Fine Art” series. Debra’s recent media appearances include The Today Show, The
Early Show, NPR Morning Edition, Fox
Business News and CNN.

Executive Director
Vermont Health Care Association the Green Mountain National Forest, and Vermont’s other natural treasures. In his years at CLF, Anthony has won precedent-setting Clean Water Act cases in Vermont’s environmental court and in federal district court. He
Laura is a 1999 graduate of Vermont Law School (JD/
MSEL). She began her legal career as an attorney with the U.S. EPA in the Region 4 Atlanta office, where she worked on both criminal cases under the Clean Air Act,
RCRA and the Clean Water Act, as well as civil Superfund cases. After several years she came back to Vermont and entered private practice at the law firm of Theriault &
Joslin, P.C., where she litigated cases in both federal and state courts on a variety of civil matters including medical malpractice, product liability, professional negligence, contracts, and other claims. In 2005 she joined the Vermont
Agency of Natural Resources as an enforcement attorney, representing the State of Vermont in Environmental
Court against violators of state and federal environmental laws. Laura briefly served as the Agency’s Policy
Director before serving as Commissioner of the Vermont
Department of Environmental Conservation from 2007-
2009. As Commissioner, she was responsible for oversight of Vermont’s myriad regulatory, enforcement, technical and financial assistance programs. Laura is currently the
Executive Director of the Vermont Health Care Association, a nonprofit trade organization that advocates on behalf of
Vermont’s long-term care providers before administrative agencies, the General Assembly and federal lawmakers.
Staff Attorney
Conservation Law Foundation
Anthony Iarrapino works in Conservation Law
Foundation’s (CLF) Clean Water and Healthy Forest
Program, focusing on the protection of Lake Champlain, has also worked in coalition with citizens and other environmental NGOs, securing legislative victories to designate approximately 48,000 acres of Wilderness in the
Green Mountain National Forest, to strengthen enforcement of environmental laws in Vermont, and to protect Vermont’s heritage of open government and freedom of information from attempted expansion of government secrecy. In 2008,
Anthony accepted the Clean Water Network’s “Aqua
Award” on behalf of CLF for “Organization of the Year” in recognition of stormwater pollution cleanup strategies that Anthony and his colleagues successfully implemented in Vermont and other New England states. Prior to joining
CLF in 2005, Anthony spent two years as the law clerk for
Hon. Denise R. Johnson, Associate Justice of the Vermont
Supreme Court. Before entering the legal field, Anthony worked as an aide to U.S. Congressman Martin T. Meehan.
Anthony received his B.A. magna cum laude from Boston
College in 1998 and his J.D. summa cum laude from
Vermont Law School in 2003. Anthony is admitted to practice law in Vermont and Massachusetts.
Civil Rights Section Chief
Ohio Attorney General’s Office
Lori currently serves as the Section Chief for the Civil
Rights Section of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office. As
Chief, she is responsible for the statewide enforcement of
Ohio’s anti-discrimination laws on behalf of the Ohio Civil
Rights Commission, and keeping the Attorney General informed on pending litigation and other civil rights matters which may arise. Prior to that she was the Co-Managing
Attorney of the Ohio AG’s Cincinnati Regional Office,

course for immigrants as a volunteer at the Jersey City
Free Public Library Literacy Program. He was recently recognized as Jersey City Literacy Volunteer of the Year.
He also serves on the legal affairs subcommittee of the
Powerhouse Arts District Neighborhood Association in support of their efforts to protect local zoning plans. While at Vermont Law School Doug was Senior Managing Editor of the Vermont Law Review, was Student Bar Association
Representative to the faculty committee, was on the
International Moot Court Board, and taught Legal Writing as a Dean’s Fellow. In recent years Doug has been involved in setting up regional alumni events, and his goal is to continue to work on strengthening and energizing active alumni events and participation in the New York area.
while also serving as a Staff Attorney in the Civil Rights
Section. Lori began her career after law school with the Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati, where she represented low-income individuals in General/Special
Education, Housing, and Social Security cases. She is a
1997 graduate of Vermont Law School and also holds a
Master of Arts from the University of Akron and a Bachelor of Arts from Wittenberg University. Prior to law school she was a teacher at Shaker Heights (Ohio) High School.
In addition to her professional accomplishments, Lori is a proud finisher of the 2009 Pan Ohio Hope Bike Ride, and is an avid Cleveland Browns fan.
Senior Counsel
Vermont Electric Power Company
Mark graduated VLS in 1996. He worked for two years at an insurance defense firm in Manhattan, returning to
Vermont in 1998 to clerk for several Superior and Criminal
Court judges. After his clerkship, Mark served for about ten years as a Vermont Assistant Attorney General, in its
Environmental Division, handling enforcement cases and appeals before the Vermont and federal courts. In 2008,
Mark was hired as Senior Counsel for the Vermont Electric
Power Company, Inc., the statewide electric transmission utility and reliability resource, where he represents the company’s interests in regulatory proceedings, contract negotiations, litigation, and other legal proceedings. He lives in Montpelier, Vermont, with his wife Jennifer and three children, Cheyenne (14), River (5) and Mabel (1).
Manager for Professional Development
Litigation Department
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Doug Ebeling is currently the Manager for Professional
Development for the Litigation Department at Cadwalader,
Wickersham & Taft LLP in New York City. Doug’s responsibilities include work assignments and staffing, orientation and integration, education and training, alumni initiatives, and associate support including internal career guidance, navigating firm resources, performance evaluations, and troubleshooting. In recent years he has also held professional development positions at Sullivan
& Cromwell, and at Dechert LLP. Doug began his career in education, as Dean of the Sophomore Class at Bowdoin
College in Maine. He received his J.D. from Vermont Law
School in 1997, and then served as Chief Law Clerk for the Vermont Trial Courts. Doug moved to New York City in 2000 and was an associate for seven years at Skadden,
Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in the Complex Mass Torts and Insurance Litigation Group. He currently resides in Jersey City, New Jersey and is involved in various community efforts. Doug teaches a citizenship preparation

Associate
McGrath Law Firm
Jason is an Associate with the McGrath Law
Firm in Concord, NH.
Jason concentrates his practice in the areas of general civil litigation, tort/ negligence law, family law, landlord/ tenant law, collections, land use, and contract matters. Prior to law school, Jason worked as an Educator in the Environmental Education and
Outdoor Recreation profession, teaching both school students and adults in California, Alaska, and the
Adirondacks of New York. Jason also coached his local high school basketball and soccer teams for several years. His work in the education field has provided valuable experience in the skill of effective communication whether it be with clients, counsel, or the courts. Jason is a graduate of Delhi College
(A.A.S.), Cornell University (B.S.), and Vermont Law
School (J.D.). He is admitted to practice law in the
State of New Hampshire and the United States District
Court of New Hampshire. He has been a speaker at real estate seminars addressing the rights of landlords and tenants, as well as community programs and events addressing a variety of environmental issues.
Attorney
Bob is a solo practitioner in Concord, NH with a practice that focuses on civil litigation and administrative law. He is a graduate of Kenyon
College and Vermont Law School.
Assistant Attorney General
Vermont Attorney General’s Office
Martha Csala has been an Assistant Attorney General in Vermont for approximately 23 years. She presently represents the Agency of Human Services (AHS), where she spends half of her time doing appellate work for the Department for Children and Families
(DCF), and the other half as the Privacy Officer for
AHS, handling all aspects of compliance with the
HIPAA Privacy Rule and other related laws. Before joining AHS in 2008, she worked in the Civil Rights
Unit of the Office of the Vermont Attorney General.
There she supervised the investigation of employment discrimination claims and alleged violations of other employment laws, and litigated cases in which the
Unit determined that an employer violated a law.
Her first position in the AG’s Office was with DCF, representing the department in serious child abuse cases, licensing hearings, civil lawsuits, and appeals to the Supreme Court. She graduated from Vermont
Law School, magna cum laude, in 1986, after which she served as a judicial law clerk in the Vermont trial courts for one year. During her ten year stint in the Civil Rights Unit, Martha worked closely with numerous law student interns. Most of the interns were selected after personal interviews with Martha and her colleague in the unit.
Attorney
McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, PC
Andrea, an attorney in the Portsmouth, NH office of McLane Graf, is a member of the firm’s litigation department.
Her practice focuses on representation of a range of individuals and entities in probate actions, including guardianship

proceedings, will challenges, and fiduciary duty matters. She has an expertise in mental health matters, and has successfully defended numerous physicians, psychotherapists and licensed social workers who are the subject of complaints filed with licensing boards. Andrea’s mental health work includes civil lawsuits and risk management of licensed practitioners throughout the state. She has also handled numerous commercial litigation matters in New Hampshire and
New York for nationally recognized corporations pertaining to claims of environmental contamination.
Andrea is a 1997 graduate of Vermont Law School and
1991 graduate of Boston University.
Partner
Daly & Daly P.C.
Matt is a Partner in Daly & Daly, a business law firm located in Burlington, Vermont. His practice focuses on general business law services to individuals and businesses throughout the State of Vermont. He also provides specialized legal services in a number of areas, including business transactions, contracts, commercial and residential landlord/tenant matters, development law, zoning and permitting, and real estate transactions. Prior to starting his own firm in 2001, Matt worked for several law firms in the
Burlington area. He is a 1991 graduate of Vermont
Law School and a 1984 graduate of Syracuse
University.
Associate
McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, PC
Kara is a member of
McLane Graf’s corporate department in Manchester,
NH. She became an associate with the firm in
September, 2006. Kara has assisted business clients in a wide variety of corporate law matters. She is a 2006 graduate of Vermont Law
School and a 2001 graduate of Boston College.
Associate
McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton, PC
Jarrett joined McLane
Graf in Concord, NH in
2006 as an associate in the Administrative Law
Department where he practices in a variety of areas of administrative and environmental law. His practice includes working on complex regulatory and litigation issues involving compliance with federal, state and local environmental laws. He has worked on multiple cases involving the clean-up, remediation and transfer of contaminated sites. Jarrett also advises clients on various compliance issues related to the regulation of electric generation facilities, firearms facilities, shooting ranges, gasoline refilling and automotive service stations and other manufacturing and processing facilities. He received a JD in 2006 and an MSEL in 2003 from Vermont Law School.
He also earned a B.A. degree from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst in 1999.
Staff Attorney And Assistant Professor Of Law
South Royalton Legal Clinic
Arthur Edersheim is a staff attorney with the South Royalton
Legal Clinic. He specializes in domestic violence law, family law, landlord-tenant law, and poverty law.
Professor Edersheim earned his BA degree, magna cum laude, in 1975 and his MA degree in philosophy in 1978, both from Boston College. He was a PhD candidate in political science at Brandeis University from 1979 to 1984 and earned his JD degree from
Cornell Law School in 1991. After receiving his law degree, Professor Edersheim served as a legal intern

and attorney in the area of general civil litigation for the firm of Sessions, Keiner, Dumont and Barnes in Middlebury, VT. He then served as an attorney with the Vermont Office of Child Support from 1992 to 1995 and was in private practice for three years as partner of the firm Douglas and Edersheim. He was a member of the Addison County Diversion
Review Board from 1996 to 1999 and has served as chairperson of the board of directors of Addison
County Women in Crisis. He joined the VLS faculty in 1999. Professor Edersheim served as co-organizer of training for Vermont advocates and attorneys on the relationship between civil and criminal law in domestic violence cases and on the basics of domestic violence for court personnel and assistant judges in
Vermont.
Staff Attorney and Assistant Professor of Law
Land Use Clinic
Vermont Law School
Katherine Garvey is a Staff Attorney and
Assistant Professor of
Law with the Land Use
Clinic. From 2003 to
2006, she worked for
EPA, Region VII in the
National Agricultural
Compliance Assistance
Center and with the
Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics. Professor
Garvey is also an ISO 14001 Environmental
Management Systems Certified Lead Auditor. She developed and audited environmental management systems for military and large agricultural operations.
From 2006 to 2008, Professor Garvey worked for the
City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri as the Environmental
Coordinator. She helped the City comply with permitting requirements for their airport and landfill.
In addition, she helped the City develop a solid waste management plan, stormwater plan, stream buffer ordinance, and a natural resource inventory map.
In 2008, Professor Garvey was chosen as Vermont
Law’s Land Use Fellow for the Land Use Institute.
At the Institute, she supervised student work related to land use legislation, developed training materials for local officials, and performed statutory research for the Institute’s land use partners. Professor Garvey received her JD from the University of Missouri in
Kansas City in 2004, and LLM from Vermont Law
School in 2010.
Partner
Shems Dunkiel Kassel & Saunders PLLC
Geoffrey H. Hand joined the firm as an associate attorney in
2003 and became a partner in 2009. His practice is focused primarily on state and federal environmental litigation, renewable energy development and regulation, and land use law. Geoff has handled permitting for several commercial-scale renewable energy projects and has litigated numerous cases before the Vermont Environmental Court, the Vermont
Public Service Board, and in Federal Courts around the U.S. He has also successfully argued cases before the Vermont Supreme Court involving Act 250,
Vermont’s land use development law, and Section 248,
Vermont’s energy development law.
Geoff graduated summa cum laude from Vermont Law
School in 2003 with a J.D. and a Master of Studies in
Environmental Law. Prior to attending law school,
Geoff handled media relations and communications for an environmental advocacy organization in
Boston. He has a B.A in biology and neuroscience and behavior from Wesleyan University. Geoff currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Boys and
Girls Club of Burlington, and is a Board Member of the Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust, a land trust located in Rangeley Maine.
Director of Government Relations
The Nature Conservancy
Joel Harrington is a government relations expert specializing in environmental and energy policy. Mr.
Harrington began his career as a legislative aide to the late U.S. Senator John Chafee and later worked for

one of Washington,
D.C.’s largest law firms where he played a role in developing the legal brief that led to the
U.S. Supreme Court case Solid Waste
Agency of Northern
Cook County v.
U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers (SWANCC) . He served as a law clerk to the Judge Advocate General of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization in Bamberg, Germany where he advised the U.S. Department of Defense on legal matters involving the Kosovo War. Mr. Harrington has served in a management capacity at three of
New Hampshire’s largest non-profit environmental organizations and is currently the Director of
Government Relations for The Nature Conservancy.
Mr. Harrington received an appointment by Governor
John Lynch to serve as Councilor on the state’s Water
Council. He has been named by the Union Leader as one its “40 Under 40” future leaders in the state and is a 2009 graduate of Leadership New Hampshire. Mr.
Harrington holds a B.A. from the University of Rhode
Island and a law degree from Vermont Law School.
Attorney
Tina J. Jarrett, PLLC
Tina graduated from
VLS in ‘03 with a JD,
MSEL. She is licensed in New Hampshire and practiced law in Hanover,
NH until April ‘09; first at The Law Offices of
Timothy Caldwell and then the Office of Tina
J. Jarrett, PLLC. Most of her practice was concentrated on estate planning and trust administration. She is currently an inactive member of the New Hampshire Bar Association.
Professor of Law
Vermont Law School
Professor Latham joined the VLS faculty in 2005 and specializes in a wide range of environmental issues that arise in corporate and commercial real estate transactions and brownfields redevelopment. His research focus includes the intersection of business and environmental law, as well as issues under the federal
Clean Water Act. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1989. Prior to joining the VLS faculty, he was a partner and chair of the environmental practice group at Gardner, Carton, and Douglas (now Drinker, Biddle and Reath) in Chicago and Washington, D.C. In his 15 years of private practice, he served as defense counsel for businesses, municipalities and individuals in state, federal, civil and administrative enforcement actions under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, CERCLA,
RCRA and EPCRA. He counseled clients regarding regulatory compliance under all major environmental statutes, particularly in the water, solid and hazardous waste, and spill/release reporting areas. He also assisted clients with environmental due diligence in a variety of transactions.
Associate
Boynton, Waldron, Doleac, Woodman & Scott
Susan Lowry graduated from St. Olaf College in
2000 and from Vermont Law School in 2008. After graduating from law school, she worked at the New
Hampshire Public Defender in Rockingham County for two years. She recently moved to private practice where she continues to practice criminal defense but has also expanded to include employment law, municipal law, privacy law, business law, and other areas of civil practice. She is currently on the board

of the Rockingham
County Bar Association and an active member in the Charles C. Doe
Inns of Court, N.H.
Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers, and the
Portsmouth Lions Club.
Associate
Sulloway & Hollis PLLC
Amy Manzelli joined
Sulloway as an attorney in 2005. Her legal practice focuses on environmental law, including litigation, business, and government relations.
Her practice also includes real estate, land use, and general practice, with clients who range from individual landowners to international businesses.
Amy has been chosen as the only New Hampshire
Rising Star in Environmental Law by Super Lawyers .
Amy is a joint JD/MSEL graduate of Vermont Law
School, where she was the Symposium Editor and
Notes Editor of the Vermont Law Review . She is also a graduate of the University of New Hampshire where she was awarded a B.S in Environmental Conservation as well as a B.A. in Spanish. Prior to law school she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Republic of
Vanuatu (South Pacific).
Assistant Attorney General
Vermont Office of the Attorney General
Evelyn Marcus grew up in New York City and has been a resident of Vermont for the past 37 years. She graduated magna cum laude, phi beta kappa from the
City College of New York with a degree in Classics.
After a long career as Curator of Exhibitions at
Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art, Evelyn graduated magna cum laude from Vermont Law
School (and the General Practice Program) in 2006.
She began working at the Vermont Attorney General’s
Office in the fall of 2007, and currently serves as an
Assistant Attorney General in its Consumer Protection
Unit. She is a calligrapher, former Jeopardy! winner, and private pilot—although everyone is in considerably less peril since she has been grounded in legal work for the past few years.
Partner
Walsh & Monaghan, LLP
Brian has a BS in
Journalism/Political
Science from Castleton
State College (1998) and a JD from Vermont
Law School (2002).
Brian has devoted a significant portion of his practice to the representation of local governments. While in law school, Brian served as a law clerk at the Vermont League of Cities and Towns Municipal
Law Center (VLCT). After graduation from law school, Brian spent four years as a staff attorney at the
VLCT, counseling local governments in a wide range of issues. In 2006, Brian entered private practice, where he has represented local governments in the
Vermont State and Federal courts against claims for negligence and constitutional violations. Brian also has extensive experience counseling private and public sector entities in labor and employment matters, planning and zoning issues, real estate and tax matters.
Partner
Melendy Moritz PLLC
Daphne Moritz practices in all areas of estate planning and administration. Daphne also focuses her practice on Medicaid planning, addressing elders’ concerns, as well as helping families with family members who have special needs. Daphne has a background which includes private and public practice. She spent many years in the family court as a child support attorney, and also served as an acting magistrate. In

2004 Daphne became executive director of the Vermont Child Care
Industry and Careers
Council, an innovative nonprofit organization which provides early childhood educators professional development opportunities. Prior to joining Melendy Moritz PLLC Daphne opened her own law practice with concentrations in estate planning, special needs planning and elder law. She is a joint JD/MSEL graduate of Vermont Law School and holds a B.A. from Dickinson College. Daphne has resided in South Royalton since 1987 and been very active in the town, including serving on the town’s planning commission and as selectwoman. Since
1999, Daphne has been a Royalton School Board
Director. She also serves on the Community Advisory
Board of the Dartmouth College Hopkins Center Class
Divide Project and is involved in the environmental sustainability project at the Woodstock Area Jewish
Community.
Senior Consultant, Appeals and Litigation Unit
Sun Life Financial
After growing up in
Florida, Megan began her college career at
Flagler College in St.
Augustine, FL. After two years as a “Saint,” she returned home to her New England roots and finished out her degree at the
University of New
Hampshire. Megan graduated in 2002 with a BA in Communication and a Minor in Psychology. Thereafter, she began her
VLS career in the fall of 2002. While at VLS, Megan was very involved with several campus organizations including the Student Bar Association, serving as
Class Senator during her third year, as well as the
Women’s Law Group, and Student Ambassadors. She also spent a semester working at the South Royalton
Legal Clinic, which she believes to be one of the most invaluable experiences of her law school career.
Subsequent to graduation in 2005, Megan worked in
Boston, MA for the Department of Unemployment
Assistance, reviewing and rendering decisions on
Unemployment Benefits Appeals. Megan began working for Sun Life Financial in March of 2007 in the Long Term Disability department. She currently works as a Senior Consultant in the Appeals and
Litigation Unit, rendering decisions on appealed files, as well as coordinating with their in-house and outside counsel relative to current litigation matters and
Department of Insurance complaints.
Wetlands and Water Resources Counsel
National Wildlife Federation
Jim Murphy coordinates NWF’s nationwide litigation on issues concerning water resources, climate change adaptation, and energy development. Jim has represented NWF and other conservation groups as party or amici in several precedent setting cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Courts.
At NWF, he also works on federal water resources and wetlands policy issues, advocating for legislative and administrative actions that will be protective of our aquatic ecosystems. He has been extensively published in law reviews and other legal publications on issues such as water policy and law, transportation and smart growth issues, and energy development issues. Jim also frequently speaks at national legal conferences on environmental issues. Prior to joining NWF in 2003,
Jim did work with the Conservation Law Foundation, and was in private practice for 4 years. He has an LL.
M., summa cum laude, from Vermont Law School
(2006), a J.D. from Boston College Law School
(1997), and B.A. from the University of Vermont
(1992).
Manager of Human Resources Consultant Services
Dartmouth College
Lorin Parker joined Dartmouth College’s Office of
Human Resources in July, 2008, with a background in law and human resources. Prior to relocating from Massachusetts to Vermont in 2000 to attend law

school, Lorin spent eight years working in human resources for Harvard
University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
After receiving her law degree in 2003, Lorin served as a law clerk for the Vermont Judiciary, providing research and drafting support for trial court judges and for an
Associate Justice of the
Vermont Supreme Court. Lorin practiced law at a small general practice firm in Montpelier, Vermont, from 2006 to 2008 before bringing her conflict resolution and human resource services background to
Dartmouth College. Lorin holds a B.S. in Journalism from Boston University and a J.D. from Vermont Law
School, where she also served as Sr. Managing Editor of the Vermont Law Review. She is member of the bar in Vermont.
Shareholder
Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A.
Pam is a Partner in the
Manchester, NH office of Devine, Millimet &
Branch . She represents individuals in divorce, domestic relation issues and Hague Convention cases. As an advocate in court and a counselor, Pam assists her clients in the complex areas of divorce and domestic relations law. Pam is also a New Hampshire Certified Marital
Mediator so she conducts mediation in a private setting and is regularly appointed as a mediator in different family courts. She also has a background in environmental law and wrote an amicus brief for a New Hampshire Supreme Court case involving a major wetlands dispute. She is a 1994 graduate of Vermont Law School and a 1991 graduate of
Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Partner
Vitt & Rattigan, PLC
Ms. Rattigan is a partner in the firm of Vitt &
Rattigan in Norwich,
VT and practices in the areas of general litigation, commercial transactions, business organization, and employment law
(counseling and litigation).
She handles wrongful termination cases, discrimination claims, wage and hour disputes, and sexual harassment claims. She assists employers developing policies and programs to comply with state and federal employment laws including developing employee handbooks, policies and practices, conducting internal investigations, and negotiating employment-related agreements, such as non-compete covenants, confidentiality agreements, and severance agreements. Prior to joining Vitt &
Rattigan, Ms. Rattigan was Of Counsel to a Lebanon,
New Hampshire firm and previously an associate at
Brooks McNally Platto & Vitt in Norwich, Vermont.
Ms. Rattigan regularly speaks on employment law issues and has provided training sessions for a consulting firm specializing in tribal businesses and organizations for Native American tribes throughout the country. Before law school, she accrued several years experience as manager of paralegal departments at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, New York and later at Updike Kelly & Spellacy in Hartford,
Connecticut. She is a 1979 graduate of the University of New Hampshire and a 1995 graduate of Vermont
Law School. Ms. Rattigan also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Opera North and is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center.
Partner
Tarrant, Gillies, Merriman & Richardson
Dan joined Tarrant, Gillies, Merriman & Richardson in 2005 after two years as the primary law clerk at
Chittenden Superior Court in Burlington where he

worked on the busiest civil trial docket in Vermont.
Dan became a partner in the firm on 1/1/09. Dan continues to focus on civil litigation at Tarrant,
Gillies, Merriman &
Richardson, where his representation includes municipal clients, individuals, and businesses. Dan’s practice focuses on the following areas: municipal law, zoning and land use, probate and guardianship, administrative law, real estate litigation, commercial law, and civil litigation. Dan is a magna cum laude graduate of Vermont Law School, where he also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Vermont Law
Review.
Shareholder
Bernstein Shur Sawyer & Nelson PA
Jennifer is a partner in the
Manchester, NH office of Bernstein Shur. She concentrates her practice in the areas of bankruptcy and business litigation. She represents both individual and business clients in a wide variety of bankruptcy proceedings. Although more frequently representing debtors, she has also had extensive experience assisting secured creditors, committees, and other parties in interest. Following law school, she served as law clerk to Judge Frederick
A. Johnson, United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Maine, then practiced law in small New Hampshire firms for several years. Prior to joining Bernstein
Shur, she was a partner at Backus, Meyer, Solomon,
Rood and Branch, where she practiced bankruptcy law for thirteen years. Jennifer has served on the New
Hampshire Continuing Legal Education Committee since 1993 and frequently speaks at continuing legal education seminars on bankruptcy and related topics.
She is a 1985 graduate of Vermont Law School and a 1981 graduate of the University of Maryland.
Jennifer lives in Manchester, New Hampshire with her husband and two young children. She is a runner and mountaineer and is actively involved with youth soccer.
Execututive Director
White River Partnership
Mary Russ is the
Executive Director of the White River
Partnership (WRP) and works with the Board of
Directors to coordinate organizational administration, fundraising, community relations, marketing, and staff management.
Mary has a Master of
Environmental Law and Policy degree from Vermont
Law School, and started volunteering with the WRP’s
Down Stream Team in 2001. She enjoys exploring the watershed on foot, bike, and skis with her husband,
Greg, and their dog, Caddis.
Attorney
Steve was born and raised in Connecticut. He graduated from Connecticut College in 1984 with degrees in English and Anthropology. After college,
Steve worked in his family business developing commercial real estate in central Connecticut. He moved to Stowe when he was applying to law schools and worked for the Resort in its season pass/ guest services office. Steve attended Vermont Law
School in South Royalton, Vermont, and earned the
Academic Excellence Award for obtaining the highest grade in his Legislation Class. He performed a legal clerkship with Governor Howard Dean’s office. Steve continued his legal education by earning a master’s degree in environmental law, cum laude, focusing on real estate issues. Steve performed a second clerkship with the Vermont Land Trust. He was admitted to both the Vermont and Connecticut Bars in 1994, and the New Hampshire Bar in 1995. He is also admitted to both the First and Second U.S. District
Courts. Steve’s practice area of concentration is in real estate. He likes being part of the local real estate community of other attorneys, realtors and bankers.
He has represented both local and national lenders in his practice. Steve has also advised a number of local

condominium associations, and served as President of a local non-profit housing organization for seven years. Steve lives in Quechee and enjoys skiing with his two children and going to all of their sporting and school events. He is an avid bird watcher.
Associate
Gardner Fulton & Waugh
J. Justin Sluka is a
2005 graduate of
Vermont Law School.
He is an associate at
Gardner Fulton &
Waugh in Lebanon,
New Hampshire, where he exclusively represents municipalities. Mr.
Sluka has also practiced at Ellis Boxer & Blake in Springfield, Vermont, in the areas of insurance defense litigation, corporate and employment law, and collections. During law school, Mr. Sluka clerked for the Grafton Superior Court as part of the externship program. He graduated from Lehigh University in
2002 with a degree in Business & Economics.
President and CEO
New Hampshire Lakes Association
Jared serves as the President and CEO of the New
Hampshire Lakes Association, having started there as the Environmental Policy Director in 2005.
Previously, he worked on shoreland protection and lakes management at the NH Department of
Environmental Services. As President, his role is providing organizational direction and leadership, operational oversight and organizational funding and growth. He has successfully overseen the largest growth in the organization’s history while maintaining a fiscally responsible budget, and is once again directing the organization’s advocacy program.
Jared holds a B.S. degree in Environmental Science and Policy from Michigan State University and a Juris
Doctor degree focusing on Land Use Law and Water
Law from Vermont Law School. Growing up on a lake in Michigan, Jared shares the passion for protecting and managing our lakes for everyone’s enjoyment. In his spare time, Jared enjoys community conservation projects, traveling, hiking and spending time with his family.
Attorney
Brooke Hague Trottier Attorney at Law
Brooke is a Solo Practitioner in Vermont with a focus on real estate transactions and estate planning. Her practice involves performing title searches; preparing title insurance, deeds and other documents of transfer; serving as a closing agent for several local and outof-state banks; drafting Last Will and Testaments,
Durable Powers of Attorney for Health Care, Living
Will and Terminal Care Documents, General or
Durable Powers of Attorney; and creating Trusts.
Prior to starting her own firm, she worked for a title company and a law firm in Rutland. She is a 1999 joint JD/MSEL degree graduate of Vermont Law
School and a 1995 graduate of Wittenberg University.
Prior to law school she worked as a legal assistant for a patent law firm in Munich, Germany.
Assistant Professor Of Law And Assistant Director,
Academic Success Program, Vermont Law School
As assistant director of the Academic
Success Program,
Professor Vesilind works primarily with first-year students, developing workshops and curriculum to help each student find their best strategy for learning the law.
Professor Vesilind received her JD, cum laude, from
Vermont Law School. She first began teaching and mentoring first-year students as a Constitutional Law teaching assistant and a Deans Fellow legal writing instructor. She was a member of the Vermont Law
Review and the National Moot Court team. She served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Colleen
Kollar-Kotelly in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and upon receiving her JD, clerked for the Honorable Dennis R. Pearson of the
Chittenden Superior Court. She is a member of the

bar in Vermont and North Carolina. An interest in animal law brought her to VLS, where she chaired the animal law organization. Scholarship in the area includes, most recently, A Preview of United States v. Stevens: Animal Law, Obscenity, and the Limits of Government Censorship, in the Charleston Law
Review (September, 2009), an article co-authored by
Professor Cheryl Hanna. Additional scholarship has focused on industrial farming practices, constitutional barriers to state consumer awareness food labeling laws, and the Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues inherent in enforcing state anti-cruelty laws.
She is a veteran of numerous national animal law competitions, including the Humane Society Lobbying and Legislation Writing Competition (finalist) and the National Center for Animal Law Appellate Moot
Court challenge (best brief award).
Director of the Judicial & JD Externship Programs
Vermont Law School
An ’87 graduate of
VLS, Jeff spent a
Semester in Practice with U.S. District
Court Judge Billings in
Rutland, Vermont. Jeff practiced in Vermont and New Hampshire for 15 years. He was a
Faculty Supervisor in the Semester in Practice for several years before assuming his current position at VLS. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence
College in ‘82.
Professor Of Law
Vermont Law School
Professor Willbanks is an expert in federal transfer taxation as well as wills and trusts. The courses she has taught at Vermont Law School include Business
Taxation, Estate and Gift Taxation, Estate Planning,
Estates, Income Taxation, Tax Policy, and Torts. She is the author of Federal Taxation of Wealth Transfers:
Cases and Problems as well as Federal Estate and
Gift Taxation: Quick Review. Professor Willbanks received her BA degree, magna cum laude, in 1972 and her JD degree, magna cum laude, in 1978, both from the University of
Minnesota. After graduation from law school, she clerked for the Honorable
Rosalie E. Wahl of the Minnesota Supreme Court. She then practiced law for two years with the firm Henson & Efron in
Minneapolis before joining the Vermont Law School faculty in 1981. In 1986, she became the first female faculty member to receive tenure at Vermont Law
School. She served as Associate Dean for Academic
Affairs from 1989 to 1994 and from 1997 to 2002, and as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs from 2005 to
2009. Professor Willbanks is an academic fellow of the American College of Trust and Estates Counsel
(ACTEC), a member of the American Law Institute, and a commissioner on the National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. She has presented lectures on estate planning and tax reform at numerous seminars and has served on a number of commissions in the State of Vermont, including the
Vermont State Commission on Tax Policy and the
Governor’s Commission on Property Tax Reform.
Professor Willbanks has also served as a member of the Vermont Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on Judicial Education, the Vermont Supreme Court’s
Judicial Performance Review Committee, and the
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board. She is a member of the American Bar Association’s Tax
Section as well as the Vermont Bar Association’s
Probate and Trust Section and Tax Section.

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