The McLane Law Firm is pleased to announce that Cathryn E. Vaughn has been promoted to senior attorney.
Kate’s practice focuses on commercial and environmental litigation, and education law. Kate represents clients potentially responsible for hazardous waste contamination in dealing with state and federal regulators, and in recouping response costs from insurers and from other potentially responsible parties. She also works with clients on permitting and the development of energy projects. In addition to her environmental and energy work, Kate represents business clients in a variety of commercial litigation matters in both state and federal courts. Having been a school teacher prior to pursuing her legal career, Kate also represents independent schools on risk management matters.
Kate is a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association; the United  States District Court for the District of New Hampshire; the First and  Second Circuit Courts of Appeals; the American Bar Association; the New  Hampshire Trial Lawyers Association, the New Hampshire Women’s Bar  Association.  Kate was elected social secretary for the Manchester Bar  Association in 2011. 
She received her J.D. from Boston University  School of Law, her M.S.Ed. from Simmons College  and her B.A. from  William Smith College.
Kate is a graduate of the New Hampshire Bar  Association’s inaugural Leadership Academy class as well as Leadership  Greater Manchester. She sits on The Derryfield School’s Board of  Trustees and serves as its corporate secretary. She is also an elected  member of the Manchester Board of School Committee. Kate was named as  one of the New Hampshire Union Leader’s 40 Under Forty in 2010.
She lives in Manchester.
About the McLane Law Firm
Founded in 1919, the McLane Law Firm is  one of New England’s premier full-service law firms with offices in  Manchester, Concord and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as well as Woburn,  Massachusetts. Driven by the firm’s depth of sophisticated legal  expertise and an unwavering commitment to client service, McLane has  built collaborative and lasting relationships with a broad spectrum of  domestic and international clients. www.mclane.com