Cara L. Cookson

Associate

Cara joined Langrock Sperry & Wool in 2010.  She works primarily on family law and employment law matters, as well as civil litigation.

In law school, Cara was a Dean’s Fellow, a Jeffords Scholar, a Student Trustee, and the Vermont Editor of the Vermont Law Review. In 2009, her law review Note, Confronting Our Fear: Legislating Beyond Battered Woman Syndrome and the Law of Self-Defense, 34 Vt. L. Rev. 415 (2009), earned Second Place in the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence Law Student Writing Competition.

Prior to attending law school, Cara worked for several years as a legislative aide to Senator Jim Jeffords on the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works staff. Her portfolio included Senate appropriations, Vermont projects, transportation, and federal wilderness and wildlife. In 2006, she served as Jeffords’s lead Washington, D.C. aide negotiating the successful passage of the New England Wilderness Act of 2006, which designated nearly 42,000 acres of wilderness in the Green Mountain National Forest.

Cara grew up in Cabot and has strong Vermont ties. She has served on the Town of Cabot Zoning Board of Adjustment and the Board of Directors for the non-profit Barrister’s Bookstore in South Royalton.  She is a member of the Vermont Leadership Institute Class of 2011 and is a contributor to a blog on Vermont Supreme Court issues, found at www.scovlegal.blogspot.com.

Cara is an avid runner and cross-country skier.  She loves volunteering and spending time with her extended family on their dairy farm in Cabot.

Education

Vermont Law School (J.D., summa cum laude, 2010); Mount Holyoke College (A.B., cum laude, 2004)

Bar Admissions

Admitted to state and federal courts in Vermont

Memberships

Vermont and American Bar Associations; Vermont Association for Justice