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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 cert