Roger Kohn

Roger E. Kohn was born in New Jersey and relocated to Vermont in 1971. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 with a major in physics. He earned his law degree magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1971, where he served as Comment Editor of the Law Review and joined the Order of the Coif. He was awarded the Henry C. Loughlin prize for legal ethics.

Roger began his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Bernard J. Leddy, Chief U.S. District Judge, and worked at Vermont Legal Aid before establishing his practice in Hinesburg. He is a Past President of the Chittenden County Bar Association and a member of both the Vermont Bar Association and the Vermont Trial Lawyers Association (Vermont Association for Justice).

Currently, Roger is the President of the Vermont Employment Lawyers Association and has previously chaired the Vermont Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Committee. He is a prolific author on employment law and has taught classes on the Uniform Commercial Code. Additionally, he has presented at numerous seminars covering trial practice, employment law, workers’ compensation, and legal ethics.

Roger has earned an AV® Preeminent™ peer-review rating from Martindale-Hubbell and is recognized in Super Lawyers magazines for general litigation, plaintiff’s personal injury, and employment law. He is admitted to practice before the Vermont Supreme Court, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

For over 25 years, Roger was a member of the Hinesburg Planning Commission. As the managing partner of Kohn Rath Law, he concentrates on real estate and land use, employment law, personal injury, wills and estate planning, workers’ compensation, commercial litigation, and computer law.