Areas of practice include all aspects of business law with focus on creditors' rights and bankruptcy law for both consumer and business, debtors, creditors and trustees in both liquidation and reorganization contexts. Experience also includes corporate formation and transactions, trustee representation, foreclosures and probate. Practice is primarily both transactional with litigation, but also includes solutions for viable and troubled companies by reviewing and analyzing business financials and offering alternative resolutions.

Worked extensively as debtor counsel for FiberMark, Inc. (local counsel, largest Chapter 11 in District's history, 2004); Bolton Valley Ski Resort (ski area, 2001); Rutland Fire Clay Company and Rutland Inc. (asbestos-related mass tort, 1999); JRL Industries, Inc. d/b/a Williams Machine (machining, 2001); Switchyard Associates (shopping center located on railroad switch yard, 1998) and Commercial Logic, Inc. (computer software, 1998) and as PACE local 41 union counsel in American Paper Mills of Vermont, Inc. (paper mill, 2002).

Researched and wrote Memoranda of Decisions on a wide-range of subjects including burden of proof for new Bankruptcy Code section, usury interest, excise taxes, judgment liens, construction liens, retail installment contracts and exemptions. Prepared files for hearings (read, researched and recommended rulings to Judge).Traveled to and performed similar services in other districts (Southern District of New York, New York City; Eastern District of New York, Westbury; and Southern District of Florida, Miami). Wrote and compiled jury instructions and charges.

Chair, Vermont Bar Association, Bankruptcy Law Section, 2006, 2007

Court Approved Mediator, ENE and Mediation Training, October 2001
One of six District Court-appointed mediators to serve in Vermont bankruptcy cases

Certificate of Honor, Vermont Bar Association, March 2000
For providing pro bono representation to clients in the United States Bankruptcy Court

Admitted to Practice
State of Vermont, November 1995
United States District Court, District of Vermont, December 1997

GMEDC, Green Mountain Economic Development Corporation, Board of Directors, 2003 - present, Executive Committee, 2007

District Court Advisory Group

Vermont Bar Association, Bankruptcy Law Section Chair 2006, 2007

American Bankruptcy Institute

International Women's Insolvency and Recovery Confederation

Author, Bankruptcy Reform-Gather 'Round Children, Yes, the Sky IS Falling (Vt. Bar Journal 2005). Exploration of newly enacted Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, with specific focus on means test and attorney liability. Utilized by Georgetown Law Library research guides.

Author, Times-Argus Strictly Business Magazine, quarterly articles on bankruptcy and small business issues for central Vermont business magazine (5 to date).

Co-Author, Vermont's Amended Retirement Account Exemption (Vt. Bar Journal 1999)

Presenter, Vermont Bar Association seminars: 2003 Annual Bankruptcy Case Update; 2005 Consumer Bankruptcy, Moderator, roundtable on Reform Act; 2005 VBA Annual Meeting (bankruptcy reform); 2006 Debtor-Creditor Law Basic Skills course; VBA Bankruptcy Section Holiday CLE 2004-2006

Presenter, VBA Center for Public Education, The Law and You, informational seminars on Adelphia Cable (Bankruptcy law)

Presenter, Lorman Education Services, Understanding the Bankruptcy Reform Act 2005

Presenter, 2006 Vermont Law Review Symposium, Hidden Traps in the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act

Presenter, 2006 Rutland County Bar Association Annual Meeting (BAPCA and its Effects on the General Practice of Law)

Vermont Law School Moot Court Competition Judge 2002-2006 (Constitutional Law issues)