Victoria supports a number of the firm’s regulatory law practice areas, including Energy and Public Utilities, Advertising and Marketing, and Nonprofits.
Vic is passionate about renewable energy and combating climate change, and has worked on permitting for all different kinds of commercial-scale energy projects across Vermont, including solar, biomass, battery storage, and wind, as well as an HVDC electric transmission line. Vic regularly appears before the Vermont Public Utility Commission, helping clients navigate a wide variety of permitting, compliance, and utility contract matters.
Vic is also fascinated by the world of advertising, and once contemplated a career in copyrighting after watching many hours of Mad Men. Happily, Vic has instead focused on the regulatory side of marketing and advertising claims, with a particular interest in green claims. She leads the Advertising and Marketing practice, helping clients to review their current and proposed marketing claims and provides risk assessment and federal regulatory compliance advice. Vic also has experience assisting clients in successfully challenging false or misleading competitor claims before the National Advertising Division, and recently helped win a challenge against a Fortune 500 company for misleading green marketing claims.
In addition, Vic supports the Firm’s business and transactional practice groups, with a focus on nonprofit law and contract matters. Vic helps new nonprofit organizations with entity formation and tax exemption applications, and provides existing nonprofits with strategic advice on compliance issues.
Prior to joining the firm in 2014, Vic clerked for the Honorable Marilyn S. Skoglund of the Vermont Supreme Court. In addition to her law degree, Vic has a master’s degree in Culture & Society, for which she wrote a dissertation entirely on Pixar movies.
Vic lives in Burlington with her husband Carl and her two young sons. A founding member of the firm’s Social Committee, Vic takes seriously her self-appointed duty to organize firm creemee outings.
