Born

• Providence, Rhode Island

Areas of practice

• Corporate law
• Business law
• Commercial law
• Real estate
• Health Care

Bar admissions

• Georgia, 1978
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia, 1978
• Rhode Island, 1979
• U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island, 1979
• U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit

Community activities

• Judicial Nominating Commission, State of Rhode Island, 1999–2003
• President, Alperin Schechter Day School and Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island
• Co-Chair, Dean’s Advisory Council for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Rhode Island