MLK Jr. Day 2024 Poster/Essay Contest Begins

The VBA’s Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Poster/Essay Contest is now underway.  Middle Schoolers statewide are invited to write a short essay (up to 250 words) and illustrate a quotation from Dr. King.  This year the quotation comes from his 1964 Nobel Prize acceptance speech: “We have learned to fly the air like birds…

Vermont Lawyer’s Disaster Assistance Manual is Ready

The updated VBA Volunteer Lawyer Disaster Legal Assistance Services Manual has been completed and is available now on the VBA website.  The Manual provides guidance to Vermont attorneys who are assisting others in the wake of the July 2023 flooding disaster. It includes 20 sections covering the most frequent issues that effect individuals and businesses…

AAGs Take up Service Positions at the VBA

Amy Palmer-Ellis, an Assistant Attorney General at the Vermont Department of Taxes, is the newest member of the VBA Board of Managers.  She was appointed by the Government and Non-Profit Division to fill the board seat vacated by Joshua Diamond of Dinse, P.C., who remains on the Board as the VBA President Elect. The Government…

VBA Establishes Landlord Tenant Section

The Board of Managers of the Vermont Bar Association approved the creation of a section on Landlord Tenant Law at its meeting on Sept. 28.  The section was proposed by Renee Staudinger Calabro, Esq. of Bauer Gravel Farnham LLP, who has agreed to serve as its first co-chair.  The search for a co-chair who primarily…