George Vetter founded the firm with Terry White in 1981. George started his career with Haight, Gardner in New York City doing maritime law, worked as a litigation associate with Carter Ledyard & Milburn, served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York, and thereafter handled corporate and commercial litigation at Cadwalder, Wickersham & Taft. He left New York to join Hinckley, Allen in Providence as a partner doing corporate and commercial litigation. He founded and chaired the Board of Federal Bar Examiners for the District of Rhode Island and founded and chaired the Federal Court Bench/Bar Committee for the Rhode Island Bar Association. He has been active in the Defense Research Institute and the Maritime Law Association and is a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, the American College of Trial Lawyers, the American Board of Trial Advocates, and the International Society of Barristers. George authored Successful Civil Litigation, Prentiss Hall, 1977 and various papers and has lectured.

George is admitted to practice in Rhode Island, New York and Massachusetts, the First and Second Circuits, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the United States Supreme Court among others.