ATTORNEY PROFILE

LAUREN S. KOLITCH, ESQ.

Lauren has been practicing law in Vermont since 1991. Her practice concentrates in the areas of mediation and counsel on cases pertaining to civil litigation, family law, criminal defense, land use permitting, boundary disputes and easement issues, business law, and personal injury. In addition to her admission to the Vermont bar and the United States District Court, District of Vermont, she is also admitted to the Colorado bar. Lauren’s litigation career has been as robust as her humanitarian and global justice endeavors, and she now focuses her practice on achieving resolution for her clients through mediation.

After graduating from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1988 with a B.A in Psychology, Lauren earned her J.D. from the Maine School of Law in 1991. She was a doctoral student at the University of Vermont from 1994-1996, where she completed course work in the PhD program in Experimental Psychology. Lauren was associated with Langrock Sperry & Wool from 1991-1993 before entering the public sector as a public defender in some of Vermont's busiest courts in Chittenden, Addison, and Franklin counties. Lauren established LSK in 1996.

Lauren has taught various legal topics including business law, constitutional law, and criminal law. During her graduate studies, Lauren was a teaching fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Vermont. She is committed to making the complexities of the law clear and comprehensible to her clients.

Lauren was the co-author of a United Information Agency grant for a citizen exchange project to foster the development of public and legal aid services in the East African countries of Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda. Lauren assisted in the drafting of enabling legislation and statutory provisions to assist in the formation of a public defender system in Zambia. She provided consultation, workshops, and legal training to participating countries with special emphasis on constitutional reform, and conducted criminal trial advocacy courses for law school faculty and students. Among the participants was the sixth president of Zambia, a Ugandan parliamentarian and political activist who is a three-time presidential candidate, and numerous Supreme Court justices.

Lauren's passion for the law equals her love of nature and travel. She performs mediation at her mountaintop home or via Zoom, surrounded by horses, Irish Wolfhounds, and other animals. She is a true mountain woman at heart.