Hal Stevens, Member of Stevens Law Office, P.C.

Hal Stevens founded Stevens Law Office in 1980. He grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut, and went to high school at the Kent School in Connecticut. After graduating from Kent in 1967, he went to Bowdoin College in Maine, where he received a B.A in 1971. He attended the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at the Cleveland State University, where he received his J.D. in 1975. While in Cleveland he managed the consumer arbitration program for the Better Business Bureau. Hal then attended New York University where he obtained an L.L.M. in Corporation Law in 1977. He clerked for a patent anti-trust law firm in mid town Manhattan, and then moved to New Haven, Connecticut. There he was an associate for a medium sized law firm representing corporate clients. He and his wife Carol moved to Stowe, Vermont, where Hal opened his own practice in 1980.

Since 1980 Hal has been engaged in the general practice of law with other attorneys representing a diverse group of individuals and businesses in north central Vermont. He has been involved in a number of complex law suits concerning business, real estate, family law and criminal matters in both the state and federal courts of Connecticut and Vermont. Hal is an avid hiker, skier, golfer and tennis player. He has served on a number of boards for non-profit charitable organizations.

Hal has a solid base of knowledge in nearly all aspects of resort and residential development, as well as financing. Hal has been involved in many large commercial real estate development transactions and cases, as well as numerous zoning board and court actions concerning development, foreclosure, and permitting. He has extensive litigation experience in business dissolutions, nuisance law and personal injury. Hal is also well versed in financial and estate planning. His focus is to offer his clients the best strategies to resolve their legal concerns intelligently, competently, and expeditiously.