Professional

Law clerk to the Honorable Thomas H. Roberts, Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court

Organized the Rhode Island Supreme Court Appellate Screening Unit at Chief Justice Roberts'
request and was first chief of that unit

Associate with Hanson, Curran & Parks, 1977

Partner, Hanson, Curran, Parks & Whitman, 1980-1995

Trial lawyer-tried numerous jury trials in Superior and the United States District Court

Appellate lawyer - R.I. Supreme Court
                               First Circut Court of Appeals
                               United States Supreme Court, as associate special prosecutor argued
                               a First Amendment case, United States vs Providence Journal Company,
                               seeking to uphold authority of the United States District Court

Mediator--successful in over 80 percent of the cases mediated

Bar Admissions

Rhode Island, 1974
Massachusetts, 1974
U.S.D.C. Massachusetts, 1974
U.S.D.C. Rhode Island, 1975
First Circut Court of Appeals, 1977
U.S. Supreme Court, 1980

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