Patrick J. Quinlan, Esquire
243 North Main Street
Providence, RI 02903
Patrick J. Quinlan, Esq. has been a dispute resolution professional since 1991 and has extensive experience in all aspects of ADR, including mediation and arbitration. He has served as an arbitrator and mediator and has served a variety of state and local government entities as legal counsel.
ADR Experience and Qualifications
Ø Experience and expertise in resolving a wide variety of disputes including financial and commercial, insurance, construction, products liability, probate, eminent domain, land use, professional liability, partnerships and family-owned enterprises, medical malpractice matters, governmental relations matters, and marine dredge matters.
Ø Mediated over 160 cases and served as an arbitrator in over 125 cases.
Ø More than ten years of experience as settlement counsel for firm clients in eminent domain, antitrust, land use, insurance and commercial disputes.
Representative Matters
Mediations:
Ø Business
Ø Mediated major roofing construction claim involving warranty and property damage elements
Ø Mediated probate distribution challenge involving several large on-going businesses
Ø Mediated over sixty motor vehicle collision injury cases
Ø Mediation counsel for yacht club in marine dredge dispute
Ø Mediation counsel for client in catastrophic personal injury products liability case
Ø Mediation counsel for twenty five families living adjacent to major land fill
Ø Employment
Ø Mediated termination of health care provider from a specialty group practice
Ø Mediated multiple employment issue cases for US Postal Service
Arbitrations
Ø Arbitrator for Providence Superior Court for 20 years
Ø Arbitrator for construction claims involving construction of an electrical generating facility
Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities
Ø Mediation Panel, Providence Superior Court
Ø Provided training to attorneys participating in Rhode Island Superior Court Settlement Week Program
Ø Completed U.S. Postal Service Mediation Training
Ø Lecturer in Law Providence College 1982 – 1988
Background and Education
Ø Private Practice of Law, Providence, Rhode Island (1986 – present)
Ø Adjunct Professor of Law-Mediation, Roger Williams University School of Law (2007-2010)
Ø Assistant City Solicitor, Cranston, R.I. 1997- present
Ø Assistant City Solicitor, Pawtucket, R.I. 1991- 2004
Ø Chief Counsel, Rhode Island Department of Transportation (1982 – 1986)
Ø Counsel to Rhode Island Motor Vehicle Dealers Licensing Commission (1980 – 1985)
Ø Assistant Attorney General State of Rhode Island, Chief of Antitrust Enforcement and Consumer Protection Units (1978 – 1982)
Ø Trial Lawyer, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC (1974 – 1978)
Ø J.D., cum laude, Baylor University Law School (Editor-in-Chief, Law Review, 1974)
Ø B.A., Marist College (1971)
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