Eleanor R. Vance
Managing Partner, Litigation
Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
Eleanor Vance is the third generation of the founding family to lead the firm. She has managed the partnership since 2019 and the litigation practice since 2011, and has tried forty-one matters to verdict — commercial, fiduciary, and reputational — including Whitmore v. Continental Indus., which she carried from filing to affirmance.
Clients describe her counsel as unhurried and unsparing. She describes it as the family trade, practiced the way her grandfather taught it: prepared, candid, and quiet.
Bar Admissions
New York; Delaware; Second and Third Circuits
Education
J.D., Yale Law School, 1993
A.B., Princeton University, 1990
Representative Matters
Whitmore v. Continental Indus. — $310M verdict; affirmed.
In re Calloway Holdings — board defended; claims dismissed with prejudice.
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