Overview
Jim solves problems for people in crisis, representing entities and individuals in complex litigation in Rhode Island and other New England jurisdictions.
He brings to his practice – in commercial litigation, asbestos defense, and toxic tort defense – over 30 years of high-profile trial and appellate experience. Jim also is a member of the firm’s Appellate Group.
Tenacious in finding creative solutions to his clients’ most difficult problems, Jim has decades of experience defending national companies in hundreds of asbestos-related injury cases in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Maine. He also serves as National Coordinating Counsel for a large multi-national company, actively managing thousands of asbestos-related cases in a dozen jurisdictions.
Jim is fluent in French.
Credentials
- New York University (J.D., 1991)
- University of Michigan (B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, 1983)
- Universite d’Aix-Marseille (France) (1981-82)
- Rhode Island
- Connecticut
- New York
- Maine
- District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island
- U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
- U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
- Recognized as on the the “500 Leading Litigators in America” by Lawdragon, 2025.
- Best Lawyers’ 2022 Lawyer of the Year, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants, Providence.
- Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in the field of Mass Tort / Class Actions – Defendants, 2015 -2025.
- Best Lawyers’ 2015 Lawyer of the Year, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants, Providence. Jim was one of 14 lawyers in New England who won “Lawyer of the Year” the very first year selected to Best Lawyers in America®.
- New York University School of Law Moot Court Board winner of a prestigious national moot court competition.
- Selected as a Rhode Island Super Lawyer, 2008-2019.