Leah M. Fahey Charbonnet

lfahey@clarkrobb.com

Leah M. Fahey Charbonnet was born and raised in the Caribbean on the island of Trinidad.  In 1989 she moved to Coral Springs, Florida where she attended J.P. Taravella High School.  Leah received her Bachelors of Arts in Child Development from Tufts University where she was a member of the women’s crew team, Vice President of Alpha Phi sorority, and held several positions on the Student Council.  After graduating from Tufts University she worked for State Street Global Advisors in Boston, until moving Texas to work for Littlepage Booth, a Houston based law firm specializing in pharmaceutical litigation.  While working for Littlepage Booth, Leah assisted in more than six mass tort pharmaceutical trials in four different states.  She left Littlepage Booth to attend law school at the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law. 

While attending UMKC School of Law, Leah was a Staff Member and Literary Editor for the UMKC Law Review, a Research Assistant to Professor Edwin T. Hood, and clerked for a local Kansas City firm as well as for Littlepage Booth.  As part of her academic career, she also spent a summer abroad studying law abroad in Ireland at the University College Dublin.  In addition to her academic experiences, she was also actively involved in the student body serving as a member and representative of the Student Bar Association and the American Bar Association, a member of Delta Theta Phi legal fraternity, the International Law Society, the Association of Women Law Students, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, Missouri Association of Trial Lawyers, $1.98 Law Review, and a UMKC Emissary. 

Upon graduating UMKC School of Law in 2006, she returned to Florida where she was admitted to the Florida Bar and began working with Clark, Robb, Mason, Coulombe, & Buschman.