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Stephen L. Saltonstall

Stephen L. Saltonstall has practiced law since 1976. He grew up near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Steve graduated from Harvard College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and the Northeastern University School of Law. Steve's areas of concentration include civil litigation in the federal and state courts, civil rights and civil liberties, personal injury and wrongful death, and criminal defense.

Steve has received awards for his legal work from the American Civil Liberties Union (in 2006 and in 1996), Sierra Club, Green Mountain Forest Watch, and the Bennington County Bar Association. Among Steve’s most important reported cases are Guiles v. Marineau, 461 F.3d 320 (2nd Cir. 2006), which upheld the First Amendment right of a 12 year-old student to wear a t-shirt critical of President Bush at his public school; National Audubon Society v. Hoffman, 132 F.3d 7 (2nd Cir. 1997), which stopped the U.S. Forest Service from clear-cutting critical black bear habitat on Vermont's Green Mountain National Forest; and District Attorney v. Watson, 381 Mass. 648 (1980), a decision that struck down a death penalty statute on state constitutional grounds.

Steve has served on the Boards of the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont and Vermont Legal Aid. He is a past President of the Vermont Bar Foundation and The Nature Conservancy, Vermont Chapter. Steve is a member of the American Law Institute, an organization that drafts the Restatements of the Law, scholarly treatises on which American courts often rely as definitive legal authorities.

Steve lives on a secluded mountainside in Sandgate, Vermont (where he serves as Chair of the Town Selectboard ) with his wife Ellen, a middle school English teacher, and their Labrador Retriever, Bodhi. Steve’s hobbies include reading, jogging, sailing, and exploring the wilds of Vermont and Arizona.

• AV Peer-Review Rating by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
• Member, American Law Institute
• Member, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• Member, Vermont Trial Lawyers Association
• Past President, Vermont Bar Foundation

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