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Ms. Kirkpatrick concentrates in trial work and dispute resolution. Her trial experience includes personal injury and product liability, commercial and bankruptcy litigation, worker's compensation, and family law. She also does appellate work in the Vermont Supreme Court, and has expertise in immigration law.

Ms. Kirkpatrick was a director of a mid-size, well established law firm from 1990 ñ 2006. Her clients are mostly individuals and closely held companies. She has conducted in excess of 50 trials to verdict or final decision in the Vermont federal and state courts. She has handled many successful appeals in the Vermont Supreme Court. Her dispute resolution experience includes mediation and arbitration, having successfully completed a certification from Harvard Law School. She is a former Co-Chair of the Vermont Bar Association Tort Liability Committee.

Before coming to Vermont, Ms. Kirkpatrick was a litigation associate at a large Wall Street law firm, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. She also was a law clerk intern for the Honorable William M. Hoeveler, United States District Court, S. D. Florida, while a third year law student.
Ms. Kirkpatrick has been actively involved in pro bono defense of death row inmates, and received the Thurgood Marshall Award from the Association of the Bar of the City of New York in April 1998. She was part of the successful litigation team for the Haitian Refugees in the United States Supreme Court in 1982-1984.

Education

University of Miami School of Law, Miami, FLA (J. D., Cum Laude, 1981)

Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT (B.A., Cum Laude, 1978)

Teaching
• Business Valuation in Family Law (1995)
• Damages in the Significant Personal Injury Case (1994, Moderator, w/ Attorneys Manchester, Lamb, Zawistoski, Saxer, Kellner, and Barra)
• Personal Injury (1993, w/ Honorable Matthew I. Katz, and Attorneys Luce and Spink)
• Evidence In Trial Practice (1992, w/Attorney James Spink)
• Personal Injury Practice (1990, 1988 w/Attorneys Heath, Parker and McCormick)

Associations
Vermont Bar Ass'n, 1984 to present
American Bar Ass'n, 1992 to present
American Trial Lawyer's Ass'n, 1986 to present
Chittenden County Bar Ass'n, 1984 to present
American Immigration Lawyer's Ass'n, 1982 to present
American Judicature Society, 1990 to present
New York State Bar Ass'n, 1981 to present
Vermont Trial Lawyer's Ass'n, 1996 to present
Florida Bar Ass'n, 1981 to present

Memberships
Florida Bar, 1981
New York Bar, 1982
Vermont Bar, 1984
United States Court of Appeals, 11th Cir., 1982
United States Court of Appeals, 5th Cir., 1982
United States Court of Appeals, 2d Cir., 1984
United States District Court, D. Vt., 1984
United States District Court, S. D. N. Y., 1982
United States District Court, E. D. N. Y., 1982
United States District Court, S. D. Florida, 1981

Publications
T. Corrigan and M. Gilmore, The Second Circuit Review-1982-1983 Term: Immigration Law Commentary, Collateral Attacks on Deportation Orders: the Second Circuit Banishes the Ghost of Spector, 50 Brooklyn Law Review (Summer 1984)

Community Service
Board Member, Mad River Glen Cooperative (1995-2001). Officer positions included president, vice president and secretary of ski area cooperative with more than 1200 members. Service has included numerous committee memberships.

School Board Director, Town of Shelburne, 1998-2003, including former vice-chair.

Board Member, Chittenden South Supervisory School District Board, 1998-2003.

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Mr. Goldsborough concentrates his practice in trial work in the areas of personal injury, criminal defense, worker's compensation, family law, and professional license/disciplinary cases. He handles uninsured motorist claims, insurance bad faith, and appellate work before the Vermont Supreme Court and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

In his personal injury practice, Mr. Goldsborough has recently pursued damage claims on behalf of clients suffering mild traumatic brain injuries (MTBI) and represented a client injured in an auto accident who had developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy, a painful and lifelong neurological disorder.

In 2001, Mr. Goldsborough settled a products liability lawsuit brought on behalf of a quadriplegic client against General Motors Corporation on claims of lack of crashworthiness of the "A" pillar of the GM vehicle which caused the paralysis. The settlement terms are confidential at the Defendantís insistence.

In 1998, Mr. Goldsborough settled a products liability lawsuit brought on behalf of a client rendered paralyzed due to the lack of a lap shoulder harness being provided in the rear seat of the General Motors vehicle. The terms of settlement are confidential at the Defendant's insistence.

In 2000, Mr. Goldsborough defended a dentist accused of narcotics trafficking by the FBI and whose professional license was subjected to disciplinary action by the State of Vermont. At the conclusion of the administrative case, which restored the professional license, no criminal charges were brought.

Mr. Goldsborough's criminal law practice includes defending clients in U.S. District Court and courts throughout the State of Vermont involving white collar crime, narcotics trafficking, immigration offenses, firearm violations, and driving while intoxicated arrests.

Mr. Goldsborough's practice also includes handling difficult divorce cases and substantial workers' compensation claims. He is special counsel on an ad hoc basis to the Vermont Judicial Conduct Board.

Mr. Goldsborough's prior professional associations include: Associate, Downs Rachlin & Martin (1989-1992); Associate, Jarvis & Kaplan (1992-1997); Partner, Perry, Schmucker & Goldsborough (1997-2006).

Education

Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA
(J.D. 1989)

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
(M.S. 1984)

University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
(B.A. 1982)

Associations/Boards

Chittenden County and Vermont Bar Associations
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Vermont Trial Lawyersí Association
Director, Connor Turnbaugh Foundation
Past Director, Green Mountain Prevention Project

Memberships

Vermont Bar (1989)
United States District Court for the District of Vermont (1989)

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