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Current Employment Position(s)
Managing Partner, since 2000

Languages
French

James W. Spink, Esp. has extensive litigation experience      all Vermont courts. Since 1980, Mr. Spink has tried over 125 cases       verdict. His areas       concentration include transportation, products liability,         professional negligence matters. Mr. Spink also regularly serves as      mediator         arbitrator.

Areas       Practice
Trucking/Transportation 10%
Toxic Tort/Chemical 20%
Gen. Auto Tort 10%
Gen. Premises Liability, Etc Tort 10%
Gen. Trial Practice 10%
Mediation/Arbitration 40%
Transportation Litigation
Product Liability
Professional Negligence

100%       Practice Devoted       Litigation

Representative Clients
General Electric, Inc. (Environmental; Products)
Betz Dearborn, Inc. (Environmental; Chemical)

Representative Cases
Cavanaugh v. Abbott Labs, 145 vt. 516 (Vermont Supreme Court 1985)

Bar Admissions
Vermont, 1980
U.S. District Court District       Vermont, 1980
U.S. Court       Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1990

Professional Associations         Memberships
American Bar Association, 1980 - Present (Member)
ABOTA, 2003 - Present (Diplomate)
Vermont Bar Association, 1980 - Present (Member)
Chittenden County (VT) Bar Association, 2000 - 2001 (President)
Vermont Defense Lawyers Association , 2002 - Present (Board       Directors)
International Association       Defense Counsel
Defense Research Institute, 1980 - Present (Member)
Defense Research Institute, 1990 - 1994 (Past State Director)
Northern New England Defense Counsel Association, 1985 - Present (Member)
Northern New England Defense Counsel Association, 1999 - 2000 (Past President)
Vermont Truck & Bus Association
Friends       Vermont Regional Cancer Center (Co-Founder)
Evening Song (Director)
Defense Research Institute, 1989 - 2000 (Vermont State Chairman)
VT. Trial Lawyers Association, 2002 - Present (Member)

Honors         Awards
Martindale-Hubbell AV Rated
Classes         Seminars
Instructor, Law Seminar        Legal Secretaries, Legal Assistants         Paralegals, Law Seminars, CLE, 1988
Instructor, Trial Advocacy      Vermont, CLE, National Business Institute, 1990
Instructor, Evidence      Trial Practice, CLE, National Business Institute, 1991
Instructor, Evidence      Trial Practice      Vermont, CLE, National Business Institute, 1992
Instructor, Personal Injury, CLE, Lorman Education Services, 1993
Instructor, ADR: How Best       Represent Your Client at Mediation         Arbitration, CLE, CCBA, 1999
Instructor, Gender Bias      Civil Litigation: Combating Sexism in        New Millennium, CLE, VTLA, 2000
Instructor, Proving Damages      Personal Injury & Wrongful Death, CLE, VTLA, 2001

Past Employment Positions
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C., Partner, 1986 - 2000
Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C., Associate, 1980 - 1986

Education
Albany Law School Union University, Albany, New York, 1980
J.D.
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, 1976
B.A.
Honors: cum laude
Honors: With High Honors
Major: Religion