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Sheehey Furlong & Behm P.C. Ian Carleton joined the firm in February 2003 and is a principal of the firm. He regularly represents corporate and individual clients in complex civil and criminal matters in state and federal court, with a particular focus on disputes over intellectual property rights including patent and copyright infringement, breach of contract and consumer fraud.
Mr. Carleton is a graduate of Yale Law School and Columbia College. He is admitted to practice in the State of Vermont, the Federal District Court of Vermont, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and has been admitted to practice pro hac vice in both state and federal court in Massachusetts. He is currently a member of the American Bar Association, the Vermont Bar Association, and the Vermont Trial Lawyers Association.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Carleton served as law clerk to the Honorable William K. Sessions, III, Chief Judge of the Federal District Court of Vermont. From 2002 to 2007 Mr. Carleton was an elected member of the Burlington City Council, serving as Council President from 2005-2007. From 2005 to 2009 he served as State Chairman of the Vermont Democratic Party. Email: icarleton@sheeheyvt.com.
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Ian Carleton, Burlington City Councilor, Ward One –
Biography Ian Carleton was elected to the Burlington City Council in March, 2002. He currently serves as Chair of the City’s Ordinance Committee, and also serves on the Community and Economic Development Committee. Prior to being elected to the Council, Carleton was a member of the Burlington Planning Commission. He lives with his wife Brooke and their daughter Lila Jane on Calarco Court in Burlington, Vermont, near the Winooski Bridge.
Ian grew up in central Vermont and eastern Massachusetts. He graduated from Columbia College in New York in 1993 with a degree in Comparative Literature. His first job after college was as a kindergarten teacher.
In 1996, after two years of teaching and one year of graduate study in literature, Carleton entered Yale Law School. During his three years at Yale Law Carleton immersed himself in clinical legal work and public service. As director of the Housing and Community Development Clinic, he helped start a community owned daycare center in a crack infested neighborhood near the law schools campus and taught legal rights classes to teen parents at one of New Haven’s high schools. As director in the Legislative Advocacy Clinic, he worked primarily on the Connecticut Property Tax Relief Project. In that project, Carleton studied property tax systems from all over the country – including Vermont’s Act 60 – in an effort to come up with workable solutions to Connecticut’s inequitable property tax system. Carleton also served as Treasurer and Board member for The Initiative for Public Interest Law at Yale, a nonprofit organization charged with funding start-up legal projects all over the country which focus on representing disadvantaged individuals and groups. In his third year in law school, Carleton taught a student-faculty workshop called Corporations, the Environment, and Human Rights, that examined how American corporate law affects labor, cultures and ecosystems domestically and internationally.
Upon graduating from law school Carleton clerked for Vermont Federal District Court Judge William K. Sessions, III in Burlington, Vermont. After completing his clerkship, Carleton spent the 2001 legislative session as an affiliate council to the Vermont Public Interest Research Group working on campaign finance reform. After the Session, he then joined the Burlington law firm of Hoff Curtis, P.C. There, Carleton focused on indigent criminal defense, taking on a contract with the state of Vermont to represent a certain allotment of its public defender caseload.
During that time, Carleton was also appointed to Vermont’s Criminal Justice Act panel, which permitted him to represent indigent clients in federal court. In that capacity, in late 2002 Carleton tried and won the first not guilty verdict in a federal criminal trial in Burlington since Judge Sessions took the bench in 1996.
In early 2003, in order to broaden his practice to include more civil litigation and transactional work, Carleton took a position as an associate at Sheehey Furlong & Behm P.C., where he works presently.
Sports and music have always been integral to Carleton’s life. As a young boy, Ian competed in the traditional sport of his rural New England roots, ski jumping.
As a teenager, tennis became his sport of choice. Throughout his teenage years, Carleton was ranked in the top five for his age in New England. In 1986 he won the New England championships for boys aged 14 and under. In 1988, as Captain of the Brookline High School Tennis Team, he was awarded the honor of national high school All-American.
After injuries forced him from the sport of tennis, Carleton began long distance running, and ran both the New York and Boston Marathons in 1992 and 1993. Running evolved into an enthusiasm for triathlon, which, in turn, evolved into a love of bicycle racing.
During law school, Carleton was Captain of the Yale Cycling Team, which, under his leadership, won the Ivy League Championships and placed eighth at the National Collegiate Cycling Championships in Greenville, South Carolina. Carleton himself was ranked 28th overall nationally in 1998. Once he returned to Vermont, Carleton raced for the Green Mountain Bicycle Club on their top amateur squad.
In 2002, with the birth of his daughter, sports took a back seat to fatherhood. However, in 2003, Carleton rediscovered his enthusiasm for triathlon, competing both in the Shelburne Olympic Distance Triathlon and the Firm-Man Half-Ironman Triathlon in Narragansett, Rhode Island. Carleton is presently training for the 2004 Lake Placid Ironman Triathlon.
Music has also been a critical component to Carleton’s life. Growing up, Carleton sang and played acoustic and electric guitar in garage bands. In the late 1990’s he developed an enthusiasm for bluegrass and traditional American and Irish folk music. His first bluegrass band was The Professors of Bluegrass. Arriving in Burlington, he joined an old high school friend and formed the Ridgerunners, playing several shows at Higher Ground, at weddings, and on town greens around Vermont and upstate New York.
Carleton and his wife, Brooke Miller Carleton, were married on October 5, 2001 in the West Brookfield Church, where Ian went to church as a boy.Lila Jane Carleton was born on January 3, 2002 in the early afternoon at Fletcher Allen Hospital in Burlington.
1970 - (53 years)
. Lila Jane CARLETON, b. 3 Jun 2002, Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont 
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