AMELIA W.L. DARROW focuses her practice on trusts and estates, elder law, probate administration and guardianships.

A longtime resident of southern Vermont, Amelia received her juris doctor from Vermont Law School, cum laude. She has degrees from the School for International Training and Marlboro College. She attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Putney School. She too sailed, but unlike Jonathan, her boats were small and fast. So, she raced them.

As a trusts and estates attorney, Amelia has worked with clients of all ages. She most enjoys the planning that best addresses the complexities of asset titling and family dynamics. Among important planning documents, she drafts Wills, deeds and trust agreements, including Special Needs Trusts. She works with clients to achieve tax efficiencies and elegant asset transfer plans, addressing issues of succession.

Her earlier work as an attorney included real estate and business law, immigration and refugee law. Prior to this, Amelia clerked at the United Nations for a judge at the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Both tribunals were located in The Hague, The Netherlands, and included work in Arusha, Tanzania.

After college, she ran a daylily farm in South Newfane, Vermont. Later she managed intellectual property assets, licenses, and copyrights in the entertainment industry, developing music and mobile applications as platforms for branding and marketing.

Attorney Darrow is an active member of the Vermont Chapter of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA). She is President of The Vermont Bar Foundation. She serves on the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital’s Ethics Committee and on the Vermont Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on Remote Hearings. She is also a panel member under the Professional Responsibility Board. She serves as Treasurer of the Windham County Bar Association. In her spare time, she loves to cycle, garden, hike and travel.

Attorney Darrow is an LLM Candidate, currently enrolled part-time in the graduate tax law program at the Law School of Boston University. She is admitted to practice law in Vermont and Massachusetts.