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| Elizabeth Rattigan (Beth) practices in the areas of general litigation, commercial transactions, business organization, and employment law (counseling and litigation). She handles wrongful termination cases, discrimination claims, wage and hour disputes, and sexual harassment claims. She assists employers developing policies and programs to comply with state and federal employment laws including developing employee handbooks, policies and practices, conducting internal investigations, and negotiating employment-related agreements, such as non-compete covenants, confidentiality agreements, and severance agreements.
Ms. Rattigan also conducts on-site employee and management training on a variety of employment issues affecting the workplace. In addition, Ms. Rattigan represents businesses in commercial transactions, business organization and general commercial disputes.
Prior to joining Vitt & Rattigan, Ms. Rattigan was Of Counsel to a Lebanon, New Hampshire firm and previously an associate at Brooks McNally Platto & Vitt in Norwich, Vermont. Ms. Rattigan regularly speaks on employment law issues and has provided training sessions for a consulting firm specializing in tribal businesses and organizations for Native American tribes throughout the country. Before law school, she accrued several years experience as manager of paralegal departments at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, New York and later at Updike Kelly & Spellacy in Hartford, Connecticut.
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| Background | University of New Hampshire (B.S. 1979). Vermont Law School (J.D. Cum Laude 1995).
Recipient of the American Jurisprudence Award for Moot Court and the Academic Excellence Award for Legal Writing. |
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| Bar Admissions | | Member of the Bars of Vermont and New Hampshire. Admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Districts of Vermont and New Hampshire. |
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| Associations | Member:
American Bar Association
Vermont Bar Association
New Hampshire Bar Association |
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| Publications | Co-author, Vermont Employment Privacy Law, Vermont Chapter in 50-State Survey of Employment Defamation and Privacy Law, (Libel Defense Resource Center, ed., 1998 & Supp. 2002).
Ms. Rattigan serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Opera North and is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. |
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