Tristan Larson

Tristan started Larson & Gallivan Law, PLC with his partner Erin Gallivan after seeing a real need in Rutland and the rest of Southern Vermont for a law firm dedicated to helping injured Vermonters get the treatment they need, the organization to work through the challenges of medical appointments, vehicle problems, insurance claims, and the financial compensation to get on with their lives.

Larson & Gallivan Law focuses on personal injury, workers’ compensation, and medical malpractice claims.

After law school, Tristan started his career at a corporate law firm in Boston. The firm had about 200 lawyers. His office was on the 37th floor of a financial building downtown and had a view of cargo ships sailing into the harbor far below. On a very clear evening, he could even see the lights of Provincetown on Cape Cod.  His clients were mostly giant real estate development and construction companies, government entities, and the like. It sounds glamorous, but the work was often very tedious.

Endless numbers of contracts needed to be written and rewritten, liability studies needed to be done, and sub-agreements with engineers needed to be edited. Boxes, rooms, and sometimes whole warehouses of documents needed to be reviewed. Thousands of gas station leases needed to be cross-referenced with the laws of fifty states. The work had nothing to do with the reasons why he went to law school in the first place – those intense feelings that the world should be fair and just. Frankly, the whole thing was boring.

So Tristan left that corporate law world. For a while, he worked on a construction crew north of Boston before getting back into the legal world by returning to the hills and people of Vermont and clerking for the judges of Rutland County. He then joined a local law firm doing injury law, medical malpractice, and divorce before starting Larson & Gallivan.