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May 18, 2012
RWU Law Celebrates Commencement 2012!
See photos here! (More to come soon!)
Bristol, R.I. May 18, 2012: Roger Williams University School of Law’s 17th Commencement took place Friday under clear blue skies, as 183 new law school graduates were awarded juris doctor degrees before a crowd of nearly 2,000.
Some highlights of the day:
• Renowned jurist and judicial reformer, the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, delivered the keynote and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws...
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March 13, 2012
From WPRI, Channel 12: Senator Jack Reed at RWU Law
3/12/2012 5:31:38 PM
ANCHOR: U.S. Senator Jack Reed is pushing for a Regional Ocean Planning Policy in the Northeast -- much like the one Rhode Island has already put in place. This morning, Senator Jack Reed was in Bristol, promoting the benefits of that collaborative at Roger Williams University School of Law. He says Rhode island's Ocean Management Plan has been an extroadinarily effective tool, and is now recognized as the national...
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August 18, 2011
Brian Ali '06 and Professor Anthony J. Santo
October 17, 2011 (Updated): When Brian Ali ’06 is at work, he’s not in a courtroom – but on the trading floor in the heart of Wall Street, where he is vice president of Asian Equity at Deutsche Bank.
While most of his colleagues arrived in the Financial District via business schools and MBAs, Brian was almost unique in approaching corporate finance as an attorney – a strategy he says Professor Anthony Santoro helped him...
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August 14, 2011
From the PROVIDENCE JOURNAL: "Edward Fitzpatrick: Consider new prism for open-government disputes"
August 14, 2011: Too often, we Rhode Islanders live in a bubble. “It’s a beautiful bubble,” said Tim White, a Channel 12 investigative reporter and New England First Amendment Coalition board member. “But we lose context. We don’t realize what it’s like elsewhere. It’s bad here when it comes to public records.”
Given Rhode Island’s reputation for corruption, access to public records and meetings...
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August 06, 2011
From the PROVIDENCE JOURNAL: "R.I. attorney general backs access to records" by Michael P. McKinney, Journal Staff Writer
BRISTOL (August 6, 2011) — It was a meeting focused on such topics as open meetings in Rhode Island — then some protesters tried to open it up some more.
For more than 330 attendees, a mix of state and municipal officials, law enforcers, lawyers and others, Friday’s Open-Government Summit hosted by state Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin [RWU Law '98] at the waterside...
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March 18, 2011
Fernando Bermudez was robbed of half his life, spending 18 years in prison – from age 22 to 40 – for a murder he didn’t commit.
He was finally freed in November 2009, when his conviction – for killing a teenager outside a New York City nightclub – was thrown out by New York State Supreme Court Justice John Cataldo. In a scathing 79-page decision, Cataldo ruled that Bermudez’s rights had been violated due to grievous police and prosecutorial misconduct.
“It’s been a very long, bitter struggle...
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February 10, 2011
Providence Journal: "New AG recognizes value of shield law" by Edward Fitzpatrick
PROVIDENCE, February 10, 2011: Former Democratic Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch refused to support a federal “media-shield” bill, even when 42 other attorneys general backed it, even though the most recent push began with a case involving local television reporter Jim Taricani.
But now the term-limited Lynch has been replaced by Peter F. Kilmartin [RWU Law '98], a former Pawtucket police captain and Democratic...
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October 29, 2010
The Providence Journal's Katie Mulvaney covered Thursday's meeting of the Judicial Nominating Commission at RWU Law, and filed a story titled, "5 finalists picked for seat on R.I. District Court."
BRISTOL, October 29, 2010 — The Judicial Nominating Commission Thursday forwarded to the governor the names of five finalists to take retired Judge Stephen Erickson’s District Court seat. The list included the deputy chief of the attorney general’s criminal division and a longtime member of the...
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October 17, 2010
"Kilmartin touts police career in bid for RI AG" by Eric Tucker, Associated Press Writer
PAWTUCKET, R.I., Oct. 17, 2010 -- Peter Kilmartin [RWU Law '98] says he watched a man die of a gunshot wound in his first weeks as a Pawtucket police officer. He's arrested childhood friends, gone after misbehaving colleagues and consoled grieving families over a relative's death.
The Democratic state lawmaker and retired police captain leans heavily on his 24 years in law enforcement as he runs for...
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July 30, 2010
The Providence Journal on July 30, 2010, published a story titled, "Forum at Roger Williams University studies ways to avoid wrongful convictions," by Katie Mulvaney:
BRISTOL, July 29, 2010 — Someone stabbed Katharina Brow 30 times and beat her over the head with a toaster as she recovered from a heart attack in her trailer in Ayer, Mass., in 1980. Blood at the scene indicated Brow had scratched her assailant.
The police questioned Kenneth Waters, an ex-convict who lived nearby, but found he...
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June 04, 2010
Professor Jonathan Gutoff, a leading authority on piracy issues, will be featured on a UN discussion panel for an NGO briefing titled "High Tide, High Crime: Piracy and other Crimes of the Sea," at the United Nations in New York on June 10.
In addition to his popular courses on Administrative Law, Admiralty, Civil Procedure, and Remedies, Gutoff is a former acting director (and present faculty member) of RWU Law’s Marine Affairs Institute. His articles have appeared in prestigious legal...
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May 03, 2010
BRISTOL, R.I., May 3, 2010 – Roger Williams University School of Law will welcome famed plaintiff's lawyer Jan R. Schlichtmann, protagonist of the acclaimed book and motion picture, “A Civil Action,” as keynote speaker and honorary law degree recipient at its Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 21, 2010.
The law school will also award an honorary degree to the Honorable O. Rogeriee Thompson, Circuit Judge for the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Thompson is the first African-American and...
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February 05, 2010
Variety reports that “Betty Anne Waters” – a major motion picture based on the life of RWU Law alumna Betty Anne Waters ’98, and starring Hilary Swank, Minnie Driver and other top actors – has been picked up by Fox Searchlight for Fall 2010 in North American and select international markets:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118014653.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&ref=vertfilm
And while it’s way too premature for Oscar talk, influential Hollywood bloggers are already hinting at the film’s...
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November 30, 2009
Women’s role in law growing
By Denise Perreault, PBN Staff Writer
To highlight the increasingly significant role of women in the law, Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol is presenting a year-long series of seminars on “Women Who Lead,” which kicked off Oct. 29 with an address by Margaret H. Marshall, chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts.
David A. Logan, dean of the law school and a law professor, said he proposed the series in part as a result of the...
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November 14, 2009
Judicial-selection process debated
By Katie Mulvaney, Journal Staff Writer
BRISTOL — The percentage of state judges who earned degrees from Suffolk University Law School has grown since the state overhauled its judicial-selection process to be based on qualifications, not political connections, 15 years ago. The percentage of lawmakers heading to the bench dropped during the same period.
Likewise, the percentage of judges to attend elite law schools fell, while the percentage of native...
