After careful consideration and a rigorous selection process, we are delighted to announce the candidates who have been chosen to participate in the inaugural RIBA Leadership Academy. These individuals have demonstrated exceptional leadership potential and have been selected based on their outstanding skills, dedication, and commitment to the legal profession and the RI Bar Association.



Please join us in congratulating the following members who have been selected for the Leadership Academy:

These individuals have shown immense potential to become future leaders within the RI Bar Association and beyond. We are confident that their participation in the Leadership Academy will further enhance their skills, knowledge, and abilities to make a positive impact on the legal profession. To learn more about these future leaders, make sure to follow the RI Bar on all our social media accounts. We will be posting spotlights featuring more information about each candidate throughout the fall.

Please join us in congratulating these exceptional individuals on their well-deserved selection for the inaugural Leadership Academy! If you have any questions or would like to learn more about the Leadership Academy, please feel free to reach out to Director of Communications Erin Cute at ecute@ribar.com.

Sincerely,

Nicole J. Benjamin 

Scam Alert

We would like to remind Bar members to be diligent when it comes to recognizing scams. A recent scam that has been brought to our attention involves a phone call from a person purportedly from Kent Hospital named Christine. This person contacted a local law firm asking to speak with one of their attorneys. They explained that the attorney’s client was in an accident and the attorney was listed as the emergency contact person. The scammer claimed to be calling from the billing department and needed to know how to pay the bill for the client. The attorney did not have a client with the name that they provided, and when she got disconnected from the caller, she tried to call Kent Hospital back, but they said there was no one with the name Christine who works in the billing department. They also did not have a record of a patient with the name of the client that the scammer provided. We advise members to always be careful when you receive a suspicious call or an email from an unknown sender. Always err on the side of caution and do your due diligence to authenticate the information that the scammers are providing.