Jessica Hugabone Vinson, Esq. has joined Vella, Carbone & Associates, LLP as a managing partner. Vinson adds to the estate planning firm her practice of divorce mediation and the representations of individuals in divorces and matters of custody, support, and adoption, among others.
Before joining Vella, Carbone & Associates, LLP, Vinson was a partner at Bartlett, Pontiff, Stewart & Rhodes, P.C., in Glens Falls, where she worked following her admittance to practice in Massachusetts in 2008 and to New York in 2009. Her undergraduate education was at Western New England University where she received her B.A. summa cum laude in 2005. She received her J.D. cum laude in 2008 from Albany Law School.
Vinson is a member of various local bar associations and serves on the board of Trustees of the Wiawaka Center for Women Board and the Tri-County Literacy Center, LLC which seeks to increase adult literacy skills. Vinson has been the recipient of numerous awards for her pro bono work, including most recently the 2021 Distinguished Service Award from the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York and she is to received the New York State Bar Association President’s Pro Bono Award on May 2, 2022. Vinson has been named a Super Lawyer’s Rising Star each year since 2017.
Vella, Carbone & Associates, LLP is an estate planning and matrimonial law firm located in Delmar, New York.