About Michael Munson
Attorney Michael Munson has a reputation for excellence in both litigation and transactional legal matters. His practice areas include estate planning and probate, small business and nonprofit administration, civil litigation, landlord/tenant, and employment. Michael is also a certified and experienced mediator, having completed intensive mediation training at Champlain College in May 2018. Prior to joining the firm, Munson was a Deputy State's Attorney in Bennington County and has extensive jury trial experience.
An active member of the Bennington community, Munson is past President of the Bennington County Bar Association and has served on the Board of Directors for the Bennington Project Independence and Southwest Tech. Michael is currently Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bennington Free Library. He is a member of the Vermont Association for Justice and the Bennington County Bar Association. Michael Munson lives in Shaftsbury, Vermont with his wife, two children, and numerous animals, and enjoys hiking, skiing, reading, cooking, and spending time with his family.
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.
