Charity R. Clark

Charity Clark is a member of DRM’s Litigation Group. Charity represents corporations and individuals in state and federal courts in Vermont and New York. The focus of Charity’s practice is commercial litigation.

Charity has defended a major ski area in a multi-million-dollar construction defect dispute. She has defended a New York railway in New York Supreme Court against a wrongful death claim arising out of a crossing collision. She has prosecuted fraud claims against a contractor. She has also represented business and individuals in a variety of civil rights claims involving ethnicity, sexual orientation, and due process. 

Charity is Vermont president of the Tri-State Defense Lawyers Association, a consortium of defense lawyers from Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

Charity's law school work included a semester studying at the acclaimed Universidad de Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. During law school, she also worked abroad as an intern in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, The Netherlands. Charity was instrumental in establishing a European Law Moot Court Team at Boston College Law School. Her team went on to the regional finals in Madrid where she served as advocate general.

Before matriculating to law school, Charity served on the gubernatorial staff of Vermont Governor Howard B. Dean. As senior policy analyst, she coordinated administration oversight in economic development, housing, tourism, education, agriculture and women's issues. She also worked with legislators to advance the Governor's positions on these issues, and staffed the Governor on international trade missions. In 1998, she also worked as campaign coordinator in the Dean gubernatorial campaign.

•    "An Interview With Justice Denise Johnson", Vermont Bar Journal, Summer 2007
•    "The Federal Rules in the 21st Century: A Practical Guide to Discovery and Electronically Stored Information" presented at the Vermont Bar Association’s mid-winter meeting, March 23, 2007
•    "The House That Jim Crow Built: A Seminal Case for the Struggle for Racial Equality," Vermont Bar Journal, Summer 2006 (book review of Phyllis Vine’s One Man’s Castle)

Charity’s article on Vermont’s laws concerning a woman’s right to breastfeed in public and employers’ duties with regards to breastfeeding employees will be published in the Vermont Bar Journal later this year.

Jensen v. Cashin, 468 F. Supp.2d 664 (D. Vt. 2007) (granting in part a motion for judgment on the pleadings as to punitive damages)

 
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