114 ABA Journal Rhode Island articles.
Updated: A Rhode Island lawyer who marketed himself as an “attorney pay master” has been censured for helping a client transfer funds to offshore accounts before discovering the client was…
Oct 23, 2013 1:09 PM CDT
After her driving privileges were suspended in Rhode Island, due to a drunken-driving arrest, Layne Savage obtained a license in Massachusetts.
Now the Rhode Island attorney is facing a legal…
Sep 16, 2013 4:00 PM CDT
A veteran Rhode Island defense lawyer has been convicted in a claimed conspiracy to bribe a witness not to testify in a criminal case.
After 13 hours of deliberation, a…
Jun 14, 2013 2:15 PM CDT
A Rhode Island estate planning lawyer’s effort to revoke his guilty plea in a controversial $30 million elder insurance fraud case was a “bizarre” and unjustified “hatchet job” on Joseph…
May 21, 2013 11:09 AM CDT
A Rhode Island estate planning lawyer is seeking to revoke the plea agreement he made last year near the outset of what was expected to be a lengthy trial in…
Jan 14, 2013 7:51 PM CST
As testimony was about to resume Monday in a federal trial that had been expected to continue for months, a Rhode Island estate planning lawyer and a former employee accused…
Nov 19, 2012 6:30 PM CST
Updated: Trial has begun–and, much sooner than expected, ended–for a Rhode Island estate planning attorney who was federally indicted (PDF) last year after being accused of making…
Nov 14, 2012 9:34 PM CST
It isn’t so much the $15 fine as the constitutional principle at issue, according to a Rhode Island woman who owns a cockatoo who reportedly squawks a blue streak.
Lynne…
Sep 28, 2012 9:08 PM CDT
A school district in Cranston, R.I., has decided to ban father-daughter and mother-son activities because of fears they are illegal under gender discrimination law.
The superintendent of the school district…
Sep 19, 2012 11:00 AM CDT
Parents are increasingly targeted for their children’s at-home drinking parties under social host laws now on the books in 28 states.
Parents can face criminal or civil penalties under the…
Sep 12, 2012 12:44 PM CDT
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee says he is evaluating his options after a federal appeals court ruled he must hand over a murder defendant for federal prosecution.
Chafee had refused…
May 8, 2012 3:10 PM CDT
A disbarred lawyer has pleaded guilty in federal court in Rhode Island to multiple counts of bank fraud and filing false tax returns.
Prosecutors says James Levitt, 66, submitted fraudulent…
Feb 2, 2012 8:48 PM CST
A longtime Rhode Island practitioner who is known as a politically active critic of the state’s top court has filed a federal lawsuit against its chief justice and other defendants.
…Dec 20, 2011 6:41 PM CST
A Rhode Island attorney has been ordered to perform 20 hours of pro bono legal work in family court guardianship matters to resolve a legal ethics case.
It began with…
Nov 14, 2011 9:20 PM CST
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Rhode Island officials don’t have to surrender custody of an accused murderer to federal authorities in a dispute over the death penalty.
The…
Oct 14, 2011 7:31 PM CDT
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