Gravel & Shea legal services
Unrivaled legal depth and uncommon dedication
An award winning real estate law team
Through acquisition, financing, development and disposition of properties throughout Vermont, our attorneys have become the go-to team in real estate projects.
Acquisitions and Sales of Commercial and Residential Properties
Your company’s partner in corporate law
Our business team assists newly-formed and established companies, financial institutions and entrepreneurs in a wide variety of commercial transactions, investments and more.
Passion & expertise right by your side
When it comes time to do battle, having the right litigators on your side does make a difference.
A proven track record in trust & estate matters
Our decades of experience allow us to engage in all facets of estate planning, from family partnerships to long-term trust arrangements and charitable planning.
Protect your intellectual property
We assist clients in identifying, strengthening and protecting some of their most valuable assets: their trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.
Create productive employment and labor relations
Focusing exclusively on representing management in all aspects of the employment relationship, we can help you take the proactive steps necessary to maintain a productive and meaningful employee relations program and to avoid costly litigation.
We are committed to
- Providing unparalleled legal services.
- Upholding the highest ethical standards.
- Providing real value to our clients.
- Offering advice informed by experience, intelligence and good judgment.
with a proven approach built upon
- Thoroughly understanding and prioritizing your goals and objectives.
- Comprehensive research and preparation for every aspect of our work with you.
- Being highly attentive and available to every client, no matter the size.
- Tackling complex challenges through a combination of creativity, practicality and hard work.
Community impact isn’t just for the courtroom
We are deeply committed to our local community—especially now, as we recognize how recent events have affected many of our neighbors.
Community impact isn’t just for the courtroom
We are deeply committed to our local community—especially now, as we recognize how recent events have affected many of our neighbors.
Gravel & Shea mourns the passing of Charles T. Shea
It is with heavy hearts that Gravel & Shea mourns the passing of Charles T. Shea, a founding partner of the firm. Shea joined Clarke Gravel in 1967 to form what is now known as Gravel & Shea.
“Mr. Shea was a mentor to many attorneys at Gravel & Shea,” says shareholder Heather Hammond. “His broad connections in the community, his hard work and his stellar reputation contributed in large part to the early success of the Firm.”
Shea earned his J.D. from Georgetown University and an LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University. He served as an attorney with the IRS from 1956 to 1961 and subsequently as Tax Commissioner of the State of Vermont before joining Gravel & Shea. His dedication, intellect, and leadership played an instrumental role in building an award-winning law firm. A highlight of Shea’s career was winning a historic antitrust punitive damages case at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Shea also served on numerous boards and committees, including Christ the King School Board, South Burlington School Board, the American Heart Association, the Associated Industries of Vermont, and the Vermont State Employees Labor Relations Board.
Shea is remembered by long-time Gravel & Shea partner Robert B. Hemley for his dedication to clients. “Charlie would remind me that, however big or small any case might be, to the client his case was not only the most important, it was the only case that mattered,” says Hemley. “Charlie stayed faithful to the principles that underlay his success: strong commitment, intellectual and ethical honesty, and loyalty. He did it all with a cheerful and consistent disposition, even if things did not always go as planned. His passing marks the end of an important chapter in the Vermont legal world.”