Sarah Gentry Tischler

Partner

Sarah dedicates her practice to estate planning, charitable giving, and the administration of estates and trusts. She has a particular focus on long-term succession planning for family, farm and forest lands. She speaks frequently on these subjects at professional continuing education seminars, and to community groups and non-profit organizations.

Sarah joined Langrock Sperry & Wool in 2006, having practiced in Chittenden County for the prior fifteen years. She began her legal career in 1987 at Hemenway & Barnes in Boston, where she developed her focus in estate planning, and returned home to Vermont in 1991. She currently chairs a subcommittee of the Vermont Bar Association’s Probate and Trust Law Section updating Vermont’s probate statutes.

Active in the community, Sarah currently serves as a director of the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association, Champlain College and the Chittenden County Bar Association. She is a volunteer with Circus Smirkus, Lyric Theatre, and community activities in her hometown of St. George. Prior non-profit work includes board directorships with the Visiting Nurse Association, the Essex Children’s Choir, the Vermont Children’s Trust Foundation, and the St. George and Chittenden South Supervisory Union School Boards, as well as hands-on service and membership on planned giving, endowment, and capital campaign committees for a number of area non-profits.

At home in St. George, Sarah and her husband enjoy tromping around the surrounding fields and forests with their pets and livestock, as well as excursions beyond the compound for the performing arts, visits with family and friends, fishing, hiking and skiing. They also enjoy visits to their children’s college campuses.

Education

Boston University School of Law (J.D. 1986); Swarthmore College (B.A. 1982)

Bar Admissions

Admitted to state and federal courts in Vermont and Massachusetts

Memberships

Vermont, American and Chittenden County Bar Associations