About Alexander Dean
Alexander "Al" M. Dean joined BarrSternberg in the fall of 2018. Al serves on the Board of the Bennington County Bar Association, as a Director of the Vermont Bar Foundation, as Chair of the Vermont Bar Association's Court Users Group, and as President and Trustee of the Samuel Blackmer Law Library Fund. Al draws from a range of legal experience and clerked for the late Honorable Kathy C. Qasim in the New Jersey Superior Court's Chancery Division. In 2017, he provided legal aid to clients throughout the Northeast as part of the South Royalton Legal Clinic.
In law school, Al served as Senior Managing Editor of the Vermont Law Review and was an active member of the National Moot Court Team, and he taught workshops on legal writing and constitutional law. At BarrSternberg, Al's practice areas include personal injury, appellate practice, contract disputes, debtor's and consumer's rights, professional licensing defense, and general civil litigation. He also serves on the board of SPEAK, Inc., a Vermont nonprofit providing public speaking and debate workshops to students and incarcerated individuals.
Proven verdicts and settlements at BarrSternberg
These results are credited to BarrSternberg. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
Alfred Heekin, 84, suffered severe brain injuries on January 7, 2000, when he swerved to avoid a wrong-lane escort vehicle and struck an oversized manufactured home a Bennett Truck Transport rig was hauling across both lanes of Route 9 in Bennington, Vermont. He died nineteen months later. His widow, Marion Heekin, sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, and the Bennington firm now known as BarrSternberg took the case to a jury trial before Judge J. Garvan Murtha. On the third day of trial, with Marion Heekin about to testify, Bennett agreed to pay $1,200,000 to settle the wrongful death claim. Vermont imposes no cap on wrongful death damages, and because the case settled before verdict, the full amount stood with no appeal.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
