Kevin is one of the founders of Douglas, Leonard & Garvey, P.C. Kevin has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 23rd Edition of The Best Lawyers In America in the practice are of Employment Law – Individuals. Kevin has also been named the Best Lawyers’ 2017 & 2020 Concord Employment Law – Individuals “Lawyer of the Year.” Only a single lawyer in each practice in each community is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.” He has been chosen for inclusion in the New-England-Super-Lawyers in the Employment Law category for representing employees. Only 5% of the lawyers in New England receive the Super Lawyers honor. Kevin has received an “AV-Preeminent” rating, the highest available in Martindale-Hubbell Directory, a nationwide publication which independently rates lawyers on the basis of their peer’s opinion. He has been recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America by Woodward and White, a peer-reviewed publication, for his work in representing employees in employment law. In the area of employment law, Kevin focuses his practice on representing employees. He regularly represents employees before the New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Kevin is committed to representing employees in all aspects of employment litigation such as Sexual Harassment; Discrimination; Retaliation; Wrongful Discharge; Family and Medical Leave and Whistleblower Complaints. Previously, Kevin was elected by other employment lawyers to serve as President of National Employment Lawyers Association, New Hampshire Chapter and has authored articles and been invited as a lecturer for other lawyers on employment law issues. In addition to representing employees, Kevin also protects the interests of victims in personal injury and automobile accidents, as well as workers’ compensation claims.

Cristina is a partner at the firm. Her passion for her work is evident to anyone who talks to her and most important to all the clients she represents. Cristina is dedicated to serving the needs of her clients and her expertise has resulted in many outstanding personal injury settlements. She is skilled in navigating the complex waters of insurance coverage, workers compensation law and personal injury law. She has worked closely with the Multicultural Center in Manchester, NH to provide legal access to the Spanish speaking community. She is also a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children) and strives to provide a voice for abused and neglected children and youth. Cristina also traveled to Texas in 2018 to the Dilley Detention Center as a volunteer to work with women and children asylum seekers. Cristina successfully completed ATLA's Ultimate Trial Advocacy College: Art of Persuasion at Harvard Law School. She was co-counsel in Mann v. Adventure Quest, et al were the jury awarded a 5-million-dollar verdict to a victim of sexual abuse; she was also part of the jury selection team in Heco v. Johnson Controls, Inc., where a jury awarded a record setting verdict of 43 million dollars. Cristina appears regularly at the Department of Labor in New Hampshire and Vermont helping injured workers. She travels throughout both New Hampshire and Vermont, handling all aspects of her client's cases from simple meetings to entire trials. Cristina was born and raised in Quito-Ecuador. She first came to the United States as an exchange student in 1989 and made New Hampshire her permanent residence in 1991. She became a U.S. citizen in 2000. She lives in Lebanon, New Hampshire with her husband where they have raised their three boys. Cristina enjoys cooking, traveling, scuba diving, and experiencing other cultures.

Kristin Ross is a partner at the firm. She focuses her practice on guiding clients through insurance claims and all stages of litigation. She represents injured individuals in Vermont and New Hampshire in personal injury, product liability, medical malpractice, and insurance coverage disputes. She has experience and success in trial as well as all stages of litigation including depositions of witnesses and experts, motion practice, and conducting mediations. Kristin has had enormous success negotiating large, confidential settlements for her clients. She was also a critical member of the appellate team in Dzemila Heco v. Johnson Controls, Inc., playing an important role in the Vermont Supreme Court brief and appeal for the firm's client who received a 43-million-dollar verdict in a product's liability case. Kristin earned her Juris Doctor at Vermont Law School in 2009. While at Vermont Law School, Kristin served on the Moot Court Advisory Board based on her advocacy skills. She was part of the General Practice Program, a limited enrollment certification program that combined substantive law with practical skills. In 2007 and 2008 Kristin served as part of the Service Member's Legal Defense Network by lobbying Congress to repeal the "don't ask don't tell" military policy. Kristin was awarded Academic Achievement Awards in 2007 and 2008 and also received the Dean's Fellowship Scholarship for academic success from 2007 through 2009. Kristin graduated in the top 10% of her law school class. She is admitted to practice in New Hampshire and Vermont, as well as New Hampshire's and Vermont's federal courts. Kristin has been very involved in national and statewide professional associations of trial attorneys working to make sure people have a fair chance to receive justice through the legal system. She is currently serving as the President of the New Hampshire Association for Justice (NHAJ) and has previously served as the organization's secretary, treasurer, and president-elect as well as chair of the Membership Committee. Kristin also serves on the board of the Vermont Association for Justice (VTJA). She is a member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) and a member of the New Hampshire Women's Bar Association. Kristin has served on the Grafton County Bar Association's executive committee since 2011 as Secretary, Vice President, and President. As the longest continuously active bar association in the Western Hemisphere, the Grafton County Bar Association represents an active network of attorneys and legal professionals with a longstanding commitment to excellence in the legal field. In 2018, Kristin was elected to become a member of the New Hampshire Bar Foundation Fellows, an honorary organization of attorneys and judges who have been elected by their peers because they demonstrated outstanding achievement in the legal profession and unwavering dedication to serving the public, particularly in supporting equal access to justice and the improvement of our justice system. Kristin graduated from Gerry Spence's Trial Lawyer's College in Dubois, Wyoming in September, 2012. She was unanimously elected Class Representative by her class. She served on the College's Alumni F-Warrior Board from 2012-2015. Kristin was one of fourteen attorneys chosen to be part of the 2014-2015 NHBA Leadership Academy, a leadership-training program whose mission is to promote and encourage leadership and professionalism by identifying present and future leaders who are members of the New Hampshire Bar, and providing them with a program designed to develop leadership skills; to foster camaraderie; and to provide exposure to leaders in the legal, business and government communities. Kristin has been praised by her clients for her compassion, empathy, dedication, and her results. Kristin has lived in both New Hampshire and Vermont and currently resides in Piermont, New Hampshire with her husband, Seth, and their five animals. She enjoys traveling, gardening, kayaking, golfing, snowshoeing, cooking, reading, and spending time with family and friends.

Kira Botting is an associate at the firm. She proudly represents individuals in Vermont personal injury and workers’ compensation cases. Kira joined the firm in 2016 as a paralegal. She has worked on numerous injury cases through every step of the process, including insurance claim negotiation, litigation, mediation, arbitration, and trial. Kira is honored to help clients navigate what is often an overwhelming process while they recover from their injuries. Kira acquired her legal education the old-fashioned way: by apprenticeship! She completed Vermont’s Law Office Study Program, where she “read the law” for four years under the mentorship of the firm’s experienced and knowledgeable partners, Cristina Rousseau and Kristin Ross. She worked closely with Cristina and Kristin on a wide array of injury cases, including car accidents, medical malpractice, products liability, and workers’ compensation. Kira went on to pass the bar exam with flying colors and become admitted to practice in Vermont. Kira is also a Notary Public and a member of the Vermont Bar Association, Vermont Association for Justice, and New Hampshire Association for Justice. She currently serves on the Vermont Association for Justice Board of Governors and as a volunteer pro-bono attorney with the Vermont Asylum Assistance Project. She is an advocate for Law Office Study and has spoken on the Program in a panel hosted by the Vermont Bar Association. Prior to beginning Law Office Study, Kira received her undergraduate degree from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. While at DePaul, she studied abroad with the College of Law at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Kira is deeply appreciative of her time in Chicago and Berlin, but she is grateful to have made the Upper Valley her home. In her spare time, Kira enjoys spending time with her family, practicing yoga, and exploring all the natural beauty New England has to offer.

As an attorney, Lindsay understands that all families and financial situations are unique and takes pride in presenting various strategic advice and solutions to her clients to ensure their wants and needs are met. When not in the office, Lindsay enjoys spending time with her husband and children, practicing Muay Thai, and puttering around in her garden.

As a Founder and Managing Member of Sowerby & Moustakis Law, PLLC, Peter has established a client-oriented practice that focuses on listening and empathizing with clients while also helping them sort through issues and concerns all while achieving the best results possible and providing individualized service and exceptional commitment to client satisfaction. Peter personally handles many of the firm’s cases and treats every client’s problem as if it was his own. He understands the responsibility and trust that comes with representing a person through what is often the most difficult time in his or her life and considers himself a true “Counselor-at-law” whose purpose is to provide his clients with guidance and an understanding of the law. Peter enjoys volunteering in his local community and has served as Town Moderator for the Town of Amherst, the chair of the Ways and Means Committee for the town of Amherst, served on the ethics committee of the New Hampshire Bar Association, served on the Board of the New Hampshire Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and served as the Vice-Chair of the Animal Law Committee of the Massachusetts Bar Association.

Chuck Douglas is a practicing lawyer in the state of Georgia. He received his J.D. from Georgia State University. He currently works for his privately owned firm of Wakhisi-Douglas, LLC.

Attorney Rauseo's work is concentrated on civil litigation with a particular focus on Divorce; Car Accidents; Accident & Injury; Family Law; Collaborative Divorce; Personal Injury, motorcycle accident, slip and fall accidents and insurance defense. He is skilled in Alternative Dispute Resolution both within the formal litigation process and pre-suit. He also provides legal counsel and advocacy for clients in the area of family law and insurance defense.

Attorney Kenny concentrates his practice on trust and estate administration, estate planning, and taxation law including advising clients in sophisticated estate planning matters, such as gift, estate, federal estate, gift and generation-skipping tax planning for significant assets. Mr. Kenny is a member of the American, New Hampshire and Nashua Bar Associations and is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Attorney Kenny also holds membership in the New Hampshire Association of Certified Public Accountants, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the American Association of Attorney-Certified Public Accountants, and the New Hampshire Society of Certified Public Accountants. He has been awarded an AV rating, which is the highest rating an attorney can receive from Martindale-Hubbell.

Attorney Frank Cimler is a Cum Laude graduate of the University of Maryland where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and where he was a member of the Dean’s List, the President’s List and the honorary society of Alpha Sigma Lamda; he received his Juris Doctor degree from the New England School of Law where he was a member of the Dean’s List and the Honor’s Moot Court team and where he was selected to be included in “Who’s Who of American Law Students”. Attorney Cimler also obtained an LLM degree, an advanced law degree, in Banking Law and Finance from the Morin Center for Banking Law Studies at Boston University School of Law. Among other courses, Mr. Cimler has taught entertainment law at the Massachusetts School of Law and The New England School of Law; and he has been a guest lecturer at Northeastern University and a guest lecturer at Western New England School of Law. Mr. Cimler has also appeared on various legal panels in Boston, Los Angeles and New York. Mr. Cimler began his legal career as in-house corporate counsel to Fortune 500 NYSE companies such as Compugraphic Corporation (Agfa) the world’s largest digital typesetting company and then later with Prime Computer a Massachusetts based producer of mini-computers, which later acquired Computervision Corporation in 1988, creating the 2nd largest producer of computers known as CAD/CAM systems. Attorney Cimler was later appointed assistant secretary at Computervision Corporation. Mr. Cimler has extensive blue-chip legal experience in high technology, information technology and the entertainment industry among other practice areas. His client's have ranged from Fortune 500 Companies to the television show The Bold and The Beautiful, the #1 soap opera in the world, to President Barack Obama’s inaugural poet Richard Blanco, to David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox, to Eric Williams of the Boston Celtics, to male and female models, to various members of multi-platinum rock bands e.g. Aerosmith, the J. Geils Band, The Cars, Godsmack, Motley Crue, Poison, Extreme, The Rascals, Meatloaf, The Outlaws and actors and actresses and Grammy award winning producers for artists such as Celine Dion and many, many others. Mr. Cimler has also managed artists such as the band, The Cars and Reeve Carney (star of Spiderman-The Broadway play, Showtime’s ‘Penny Dreadful’ and the Rocky Horror Picture Show). Mr. Cimler has also represented clients in the gaming world, which has led to products such as: GI Joe, Boggle and the Rolling Stones’ Voodoo Lounge, among others. In cooperation with Sir Bob Geldof, Mr. Cimler was instrumental in work which led to the 20th Anniversary Live Aid DVD, and the 2005 Live 8 concert in Barre, Ontario. In response to the Boston Marathon Bombings of 2013, Mr. Cimler was enlisted to be the TV Broadcast Producer and rights clearance attorney for The Boston Strong Concert telecast on ABC/WHEB. The concert featured dozen of artists, athletes, celebrities and comedians including Aerosmith, James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett, Carole King, New Kids on the Block, the band Boston, Extreme, The Dropkick Murphy’s, Boyz to Men, Bel Biv Devoe, country sensation Jason Aldean, the J. Geils Band, Dane Cook, Lenny Clark, Steven Wright and Poet Richard Blanco, and many, many others. The concert and telecast were conceived to raise money for the One Fund Boston, the charity created to assist and benefit the victims of the horrible Boston Marathon Bombings. Mr. Cimler was engaged by Live Nation, the nation’s largest concert promoter, to oversee the television broadcast including all of the legal requirements such as synchronized music licensing, composition clearances, artist appearances and related matters. That work led to an unprecedented 4 hour commercial free concert telethon telecast all to raise funds for the One Fund Boston. The Boston Strong Concert was the largest contributor to the One Fund and was instrumental in helping to raise $66 million dollars in 100 days. Mr. Cimler has also been a consultant to, and officer of, various publicly traded and private entities such as a fresh salsa company, record labels, publishing companies, music video broadcasters, digital encryption technology companies, adaptive finger print technology companies and celebrity rights management companies. Mr. Cimler is also a co-founder of the Rockin’ & Roastin’ Coffee company, along with Joey Kramer, the drummer from the band Aerosmith. Mr. Cimler is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the New York based Foundation for Gender Equality http://www.foundationforgenderequality.org/executive-committee/and and the Rockin’ & Roastin’ Coffee company. http://www.rockinandroastin.com/ Mr. Cimler is the founder of the firm Cimler Law, PLLC, a New England based law firm. Previously, Mr. Cimler was associated with the prestigious Boston based law firm of Choate Hall and Stewart and prior to that with the largest law firm in the State of New Hampshire, McLane- Middleton based in Manchester, NH.