About Cheryl Lynn
Cheryl Lynn Sovern earned her J.D. from Albany Law School in 2006. Her legal education followed years working in regulation workplaces in support roles, and it set the stage for a steady upward push through private practice in upstate New York.
Sovern started her professional legal career outdoor the role of lawyer, operating as a paralegal in the 1990s. She held positions at Berger & DuCharme, LLP in 1990 and later at Gordon, Tepper & DeCoursey in 1997. Those early years gave her practical exposure to case preparation and firm operations lengthy earlier than she took the bar and entered practice as a lawyer.
She returned to a law company placing as a law clerk in 2003 at DuCharme, Harp & Clark, LLP, after which joined that firm as an associate in 2007. Over the subsequent numerous years she assumed higher responsibilities, becoming a companion in 2013 when the company name included her own. That development reflects a decade of continuous work interior an unmarried company shape and then a transition into firm management.
In 2019 she released Sovern Law, PLLC, the place she is the proprietor and practicing lawyer. The move to open her own firm marked another shift in responsibilities. She now handles the managerial tasks of operating a small firm further to serving clients. Her practice is rooted in New York state legal authority, and her background combines hands-on legal support experience with years as a lawyer and partner.
Outside the workplace Sovern has lengthy been active in nearby organizations. She has served as vice-chair of the Ballston Spa Education Foundation since 2009, and as secretary of the Burnt Hills–Ballston Spa Varsity Hockey Booster Club starting in the identical year. Her civic involvement reaches again to at least 2002, when she took at the position of treasurer for the Malta Ridge Volunteer Fire Company Auxiliary.
Sovern has been involved with several bar associations over time. She has been a member of the Saratoga County Bar Association since 2007 and joined each the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York in 2008 and the Schenectady County Bar Association in 2009. She also served as vice-president of the Adirondack Women’s Bar Association from 2010 to 2011. These roles reflect ongoing participation in professional and local community teams.
Her profession path shows lengthy-term ties to the identical regional legal network, progressing from paralegal to law company companion and now to law firm owner. She practices law in New York and manages Sovern Law, PLLC, the place she handles client matters throughout the state.
