Rebecca Oleson joins Cooper Cargill Chant law firm

Rebecca J. Oleson has joined the staff of the Cooper Cargill Chant law firm as an associate. Oleson will focus her practice on real estate development, corporate law, business transactions, estate planning and environmental law. Oleson is a New Hampshire native who began her career as a secondary school teacher. She taught science at the White Mountains Regional High School in Whitefield. She also served in the United States Army for four years, where she was a behavioral science specialist stationed at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas.Oleson earned a bachelor of science degree from Lyndon State College in 1999. She graduated cum laude from Vermont Law School and earned a master of studies in environmental law in 2007. She is a member of both the Carroll County and New Hampshire Bar Associations. Oleson is an active community member, having served as the chairman of the planning board and the emergency medical director in Lancaster. She has also volunteered as a guardian ad litem in the Orange County, Vt. Family Court System. Oleson lives in North Conway with her two teenage children.Cooper Cargill Chant is the largest law firm in Northern New Hampshire. Its attorneys and staff work to represent a wide array of individuals and businesses in central and northern New Hampshire and Western Maine. Practice areas for the firm include: personal injury; real estate; business and corporate; planning, zoning and municipal; civil litigation; family law; bankruptcy, employment, and labor law; criminal defense and driving while intoxicated. For more information about the law firm of Cooper Cargill Chant, call 356-5439 or visit the Web site at www.coopercargillchant.com.