It’s never easy taking a sexual assault case to court, but for a young woman or man in the Marines, it’s harder still. “It’s a terrible, awful experience to have to go through,” said Adrienne Serbaroli ’07, a captain and judge advocate in the Marine Corps. “It’s traumatic.” A few years ago, “Adi” Serbaroli became one of only 15 Marine lawyers from around the country handpicked to launch the…
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East Greenwich native Matt Plain ’05 graduated from RWU Law fifth in his class and passed the bar exam for Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts. After serving a judicial clerkship with the Honorable George E. Healy, Jr., in the Rhode Island Workers’ Compensation Court, he joined the law offices of Barton Gilman LLP and, within just six years, made partner. While at RWU, he was a…
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Three years ago, Curtis T. Haynes was attending class, much as he does now – but in a very different setting, wearing a lab coat at the renowned Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. Yet after a year and a half at one of the country’s most selective medical schools, the Mississippi native made one of the toughest decisions in his life: he stepped away from the career trajectory he’d…
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As a career paralegal, Stephanie Diorio arrived at RWU Law armed with a solid grasp of the law. Motivated by a thirst for learning, Stephanie completed her undergraduate degree one course at a time, squeezed in between work and parenting. It took nearly a decade to earn her degree – but when she finally succeeded, a law degree – and the empowerment it offers – seemed like the next logical step. “…
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Liz Tylawsky has now officially risen to the top in two very different, very demanding fields: she’s a successful taxation and business valuation expert with Meyers, Harrison & Pia, LLC, in New Haven, Conn., specializing in “high-net-worth marital dissolution cases” – and she has been crowned World Champion at the Grand National and World Championship Morgan Horse Show. , Breaking from the pack:, Upon completing law school in 2008 – just in time for the Great Recession – Tylawsky wondered, “What can I do to make myself more marketable?” She decided to augment her J.D. with a Master of Science in Accounting and Taxation, summa cum laude, from the University of Hartford. “It made me a lot more marketable than an LL.M. would have.” , Why tax?, “If you’d asked me at the beginning of law school, I would have said, ‘Absolutely not, it sounds so boring.’ But Professor Santoro was awesome – very knowledgeable, lots of experience, great stories. He made the subject very interesting.” , Star power:, Today, Tylawsky finds her work “unbelievably fascinating. We get a lot of very high-profile clients – celebrities, supermodels, hedge-fund types – which is fun. You talk to them on a regular basis and become really close; you get to see their whole lifestyle.” , Versatile degree:, “Though I’m not actually practicing, my law degree is still very useful. We work with attorneys on a daily basis, and being able to communicate on the same level makes everyone’s job easier.” , Lifelong love, of horses:, “I’ve been riding and competing since I was six. It’s always been part of my life. I often say that’s the reason I went to school: so I could afford my horses!” , Back in the saddle:, “The type of riding I do is called saddle seat. It’s a much more formal, high-stepping, showy style of riding with fancier horses.” , Where horses and taxes meet:, “Horses are the one business where you can show a profit only two out of seven years, and take a loss for five years. In every other business, you have to show a profit two out of five years.” , Other interests?, “I don’t have time for anything else! All I do is work and ride!”
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David H. Gibbs, an experienced corporate lawyer and legal educator, has been named the new Director of Business Law Programs and the Corporate Counsel Externship Program. He brings with him both extensive practice experience and experience teaching at two law schools. Gibbs is a graduate of Tufts University and UC Berkeley Law. From 1978 until 2003 he was an associate and then a partner at Nixon…
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Our state has its own lexicon when it comes to wieners and there are definitely some rules you MUST learn to be a real Rhode Islander: Never, ever call a wiener a hot dog. A wiener may have hot dog similarities but according to at least one source , they are different. “There are distinct differences between hot dogs and hot wieners: hot dogs are typically very processed, with a hodge podge of…
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Please join Dean Michael J. Yelnosky and the Law Alumni Association to enjoy a delicious breakfast and welcome the new 2018-2019 Law Alumni Association Board of Directors Please RSVP to the Office of Special Events at events@rwu.edu by June 14
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Melinda Thies realized a long-held dream when she graduated from RWU Law in Spring 2018. After retiring as the Superintendent of the Bristol Warren Regional School District in 2014, the Barrington, R.I., resident had taken the extraordinary step of applying to and entering law school. Back when she was a high school student in Connecticut, an economics teacher told Thies that she had a good mind…, This article originally appeared, in slightly different form, in the May 2018 issue of, The Bay Magazine, . It is reprinted here with the permission of both Ms. Thies and, The Bay, .
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8:30 a.m. Registration - School of Law | 2nd Floor Atrium 9:00 a.m. Summit Begins Individuals who would like to attend the Open Government Summit need to register with the Rhode Island Office of Attorney General. Seating is limited. Registration for the event may be made by calling (401) 274-4400, ext. 2101, or by sending an email to agsummit@riag.ri.gov . Individuals may submit questions in…, Special Accommodations, Persons who, because of a special need or condition, would like to request an accommodation for an event should contact the Office of Programs & Events at lawevents@rwu.edu, as soon as possible, but no later than 72 hours before the event, so that appropriate arrangements can be made.
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