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)