PS&H Partner Howard Merten was elected to be President of the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (FDCC) for 2022-2023 at the organization’s recent Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1936, the FDCC is an international organization composed of the nation’s leaders in the legal community. Federation members have been judged by their peers to have...

PS&H’s Paul Kessimian, Christian Jenner, and Daniel Burgoyne were selected as Fellows of the Rhode Island Bar Foundation. They were recognized at the Foundation’s annual luncheon on June 23, 2022. Each year, Fellows are selected by the Foundation’s Board of Directors from those members of the Rhode Island Bar Association whose professional, public, and private careers have demonstrated their outstanding dedication to...

By Daniel E. Burgoyne On June 20, 2022, Rhode Island Governor Daniel J. McKee signed into law the Rhode Island Commercial Receivership Act (“CRA”), which updates and modernizes Rhode Island receivership practice. Pub. L. 2002, ch. 107 and 108. The CRA is based upon the Uniform Law Commission’s 2015 Commercial Real Estate Receivership Act. The uniform act is...

By Elizabeth Manchester Charities increasingly receive inquiries from donors regarding the entity’s willingness to accept cryptocurrency (“crypto”) donations. In the wake of the pandemic, charities should consider ways to diversify fundraising efforts in a compliant manner. Charities can best prepare themselves with the following steps to evaluate and accept cryptocurrency donations. Review and revise gift...

By Alicia Samolis and Michael Gamboli Pursuant to the new law legalizing recreational marijuana in Rhode Island, private employers are now prohibited from firing or taking other disciplinary action against an employee for recreational marijuana use outside the workplace. The narrow exceptions to the prohibition are as follows: Employees cannot be “under the influence” at work....

By Daniel E. Burgoyne and Christian R. Jenner A pair of recent decisions from the Rhode Island Superior Court’s Business Calendar, authored by Associate Justices Richard J. Licht and Brian P. Stern, demonstrate how a secured lender in a receivership can combat frivolous appeals that might otherwise threaten a sale of its real estate collateral....

Partridge Snow & Hahn (PSH) is again being recognized by one of the legal industry’s most prestigious resource guides – Chambers USA. The firm has been thoroughly reviewed in the areas of Corporate/Commercial, Corporate/Commercial: Banking & Finance, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Litigation: General Commercial, and Real Estate. As a result of the Chambers’ research...

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