Cristina Rousseau

Cristina Rousseau is a partner at Rousseau & Ross, PLLC in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Her practice includes personal injury, workers’ compensation, insurance claims, and trial litigation. Rousseau represents injured people and workers throughout New Hampshire and Vermont, handling matters from client meetings and claim development through negotiation and trial. She also appears regularly before labor departments in both states on behalf of injured workers seeking benefits and legal protection.

Rousseau earned a Juris Doctor from Vermont Law School in 2003, graduating cum laude. At Franklin Pierce University, she completed a double major in Criminal Justice and Pre-Law. Her legal education included international study and practice experiences, and she later completed advanced trial advocacy training through ATLA’s Ultimate Trial Advocacy College at Harvard Law School. This background supports her work in case analysis, negotiation, administrative proceedings, and courtroom advocacy.

Rousseau handles personal injury and workers’ compensation matters across New Hampshire and Vermont and manages cases through litigation and trial when necessary. Her experience includes significant jury matters, including serving as co-counsel in a sexual-abuse case that resulted in a multimillion-dollar verdict and participating in jury selection in major product-liability litigation. She combines detailed case preparation with regular administrative advocacy for workers pursuing injury-related claims before state agencies.

Cristina Rousseau is admitted in New Hampshire and Vermont, the federal district courts for both states, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She participates in state and national trial-law organizations and has received professional and academic honors connected to her legal training and advocacy. Her practice is grounded in representing injured clients through insurance, administrative, and litigation processes with careful preparation and direct legal guidance.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Rousseau & Ross, PLLC
• Member, New Hampshire Bar Association
• Member, Vermont Bar Association
• Minority Delegate, New Hampshire Association for Justice (2008-2013)
• Member, American Association for Justice
• Member, Vermont Association for Justice
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Grafton County Bar Association
• Member, New Hampshire Women’s Bar Association
• Member, CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children)
• Member, Multicultural Center (Manchester, NH)

Licensed State

• New Hampshire
• Vermont

Education

• Vermont Law School
  Juris Doctor (05/2003)
• Franklin Pierce University
  Double Major in Criminal Justice and Pre-Law

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