114 ABA Journal Rhode Island articles.
A Rhode Island law firm has filed a lawsuit against its insurer over coverage for a ransomware attack that locked down the firm’s computer files for three months.
Moses Afonso…
May 2, 2017 11:09 AM CDT
A growing number of municipalities throughout the country have found an innovative way to add to their bottom lines—joining class-action suits on a contingency-fee basis.
Providence, Rhode Island, has filed…
May 3, 2016 9:25 AM CDT
Attorneys general from eight states and Washington, D.C., are investigating a retailer scheduling practice described as unfair by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
In letters sent Wednesday, he and…
Apr 13, 2016 1:50 PM CDT
A Rhode Island lawyer has been criminally charged, along with five other defendants, in a claimed mortgage-fraud scheme between 2007 and 2014 involving over a dozen properties in Rhode Island…
Dec 17, 2015 4:00 PM CST
Disciplinary charges filed Monday accuse a Rhode Island judge of mistreating female staff, attorneys and the public, as well as other behavior that cast doubt on his fitness to serve…
Dec 8, 2015 1:00 PM CST
The family of a Rhode Island elementary school student filed a federal civil rights suit Thursday against Tiverton police and school officials.
It alleges that a third-grader was taken off…
Dec 4, 2015 9:05 AM CST
A Massachusetts lawyer failed the Rhode Island bar exam eight times, while his lawyer brother never took the state’s bar exam at all, yet they maintained a law office in…
Jul 23, 2015 8:26 AM CDT
Lawyer Keven A. McKenna has been suspended from the practice of law for one year.
The Rhode Island Supreme Court, in a ruling Friday, found that McKenna had, among other…
Mar 2, 2015 1:20 PM CST
A developer who relied on a faulty land survey will have to move the $1.8 million home he built on park land on Rhode Island’s coast, the state supreme court…
Jun 18, 2014 4:58 PM CDT
A seemingly innocuous remark at a murder case arraignment Tuesday afternoon erupted into a war of words between two families, brawling, a court panic alarm and a foot chase as…
May 21, 2014 6:30 PM CDT
A landmark settlement with Rhode Island over placement of disabled individuals in low-wage, segregated settings will provide a road map for compliance in 49 other states, the Department of Justice…
Apr 8, 2014 7:35 PM CDT
A criminal defense lawyer who tossed bean bags during closing arguments while comparing the state’s case to excrement will not be held in contempt.
Judge William Carnes Jr. of Providence,…
Feb 25, 2014 1:12 PM CST
A malpractice exclusion in a law firm’s director’s and officer’s liability insurance policy did not excuse the carrier from providing a defense in a lawsuit against the firm over its…
Feb 18, 2014 6:45 PM CST
A former law student at Roger Williams University was being evaluated Tuesday night following an incident in which he allegedly sent threatening email to faculty and administrators at the university’s…
Feb 6, 2014 1:00 PM CST
A well-known New England law firm has announced plans to acquire a 10-attorney Providence, R.I.-based commercial and construction litigation boutique.
Little Bulman Medeiros & Whitney will become part of Maine-based…
Nov 8, 2013 9:00 PM CST
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