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Credentials:
Chris has over 30 years of experience in advising and representing individuals and businesses in challenging construction, finance, partnership, and employment disputes. He has successfully advanced his client’s interests in the state and federal trial and appellate courts of Rhode Island, Massachusetts as well as other states. Arising out of his success in representing parties through challenging disputes, Chris has also come to serve as a trusted counsel for business owners working through major issues of employment relations and business acquisitions and structuring.
Prior to founding Little Medeiros Kinder Bulman& Whitney, PC in April 1993, he had been a partner for 17 years at a large Rhode Island based firm having offices in Providence, Boston and Fort Lauderdale. At that firm he chaired the commercial litigation department and was the founder and chair of its construction law group. In addition to his active practice as an advocate in courts and in various approaches to alternative dispute resolution, in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, he has served on the panel of the American Arbitration Association as a neutral arbitrator for large and complex commercial and construction disputes for over 20 years
Community Involvement
• South County Hospital–Board of Trustees (1997-2006) Chairman (2002-2005)
• VNS Home Health Services–Board of Trustees (1998–2006)
• Hospital Association of Rhode Island–Board of Directors (2003–2006)
• South Kingstown Town Council (1992-1996), Council Vice President (1994-1996)
• South Kingstown School Committee (2001-2002)
• State of Rhode Island Environmental Quality Study Commission (1988-1990)
• Save the Bay Inc.- Board of Directors, 10 years, Vice President, 3 years, President 3 years
• South Kingstown Land Trust–Trustee–15 years; Vice President, Co-developed the South Kingstown Community Partnership
• Rhode Island Natural History Survey–Advisory Board–18 years
• Wood Pawcatuck Watershed Association–Board of Directors–1 year
• Washington County Regional Planning Forum–2 years
• South Kingstown Educational Foundation (2002-) Founding Board Member
• South Kingstown High School Improvement Team (2001-2002)
• University of Rhode Island Advisory Committee for College of Environment and Life Sciences and Graduate School at Oceanography–10 years
• Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council –Trustee (1991 to Present)
• Common Cause/Rhode Island–Chair (1985-1987)
Education
A.B., with distinction, Duke University, (1971) J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, (1975) (Editor, American Criminal Law Review) Graduate, National Institute for Trial Advocacy, (1978)
Bar Memberships
Rhode Island (1976) Massachusetts (1985) District of Columbia (1975) Federal (U.S. District Court for the Districts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island; First Circuit Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; United States Supreme Court)
Professional Memberships & Honors
Martindale Hubbell Attorney rating – AV
Best Lawyers in America Selected for Construction Law 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Chambers USA Recommended in General Commercial Litigation 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Superlawyers Honored in 2007, 2008, 2009
American Arbitration Association Construction Industry Panel of Arbitrators for Large and Complex Cases
American Bar Association Member, Forum on the Construction Industry, Public Contract Law Section (Rhode Island State Chair), Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section: Committee on Design and Construction
American Bar Foundation
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