J. Richard Ratcliffe

Commercial, Mediation
1600 Financial Plaza
Providence, Rhode Island 02903


Commercial

Admitted

1981, Rhode Island and Massachusetts; 1982, U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island; 1983, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts and U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit

Law School

Washington University, J.D., 1981

Law School Graduation Year

1981

College

Providence College, B.A., cum laude, 1978

Memberships

Rhode Island (House of Delegates; Chairman, Criminal Law Committee), Massachusetts and American Bar Associations; American Inn of Court; Rhode Island Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Biographical

Law Clerk to the Honorable Donald F. Shea, Associate Justice of Rhode Island Supreme Court, 1982-1983. Assistant Attorney General, State of Rhode Island, 1988-1995. Author: Representing Witnesses Before a Grand Jury, Rhode Island Bar Journal, April 1995.

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