Richard Linton Brock has been practicing law in the central Vermont area since 1971, and as a principal in the firm since founding it in 1974. These are his areas of greatest experience: protection of property and property rights, organization, operation and dissolution of businesses, Vermont's credit unions and their law and government relations, legislative relations, and municipal law.

Richard Brock's experience in the protection of property rights includes buying, selling and leasing all kinds of real estate, and obtaining state and local permits. He works regularly with the Uniform Commercial Code. Protecting property rights also involves the planning and executing of estate plans and trusts, administering them as fiduciary, and litigating the issues which arise from them. He has tried will contest cases.

Mr. Brock has assisted the organization, operation or dissolution of hundreds of businesses. He has litigated the dissolution of numerous businesses.

Mr. Brock has been counsel to the Vermont Credit Union League since 1982. This primarily involves the relations of Vermont’s state and federal credit unions with their regulators and with the legislature, and providing ongoing operational advice sought by individual credit unions from the League. Mr. Brock also represents individual credit unions on an ongoing basis. Mr. Brock has appeared in the Vermont legislature for the Vermont Credit Union League most legislative days since 1992.

Mr. Brock has represented clients in the Vermont legislature since 1975.

Mr. Brock served as municipal attorney for Montpelier and Elmore, was elected to two terms on the Montpelier City Council, and served on the Montpelier Planning Commission and other municipal boards.

Mr. Brock is admitted to all Vermont State and Federal courts, and to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He has taught law related subjects for the Vermont Bar Association, the Vermont Association of Realtors, Central Vermont Economic Development Corporation, and the Vermont League of Cities and Towns. He was an Adjunct Professor at Woodbury College. He served on the Vermont Professional Conduct Board from 1982 through 1991. He is the author of Introductory Practice of Residential Real Estate Law - A Cookbook published by the Vermont Bar Association in 1996. He received his B.A. degree, with Honors, from the University of North Carolina in 1968 and was granted a J.D. by Columbia University in 1971.