RICHARD S. HUMPHREY

Practice Areas:

  • Construction Law
  • Criminal Law
  • Insurance
  • Personal Injury
  • Litigation
  • Admiralty Law
  • Legal Malpractice
  • Driving While Intoxicated
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Professional Discipline.

Admitted to Bar:

1983, Rhode Island

1984, U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island

1987, U.S. Supreme Court

1990, Massachusetts

1991, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts and U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit

1993, Maine and U.S. District Court, District of Maine

Education:

Franklin Pierce Law Center, J.D., 1983

Connecticut College, B.A., 1980

Member:

Newport County, Rhode Island, Maine State and American Bar Associations

Rhode Island Trial Lawyers Association

American Arbitration Association.

Biography:

Co-Author: "How to Prove a DWI Observation Case," Rhode Island Bar Journal, September/October 2006

"The Potential Impact of State v. Delbonis on Prior Drunk Driving Convictions from 2000-2003," Rhode Island Bar Journal May/June, 2005

"The Prosecution and Defense of Chemical Test Refusal Cases," Rhode Island Bar Journal, November/December 2004

"Drunk Driving Statutes, Rhode Island and Massachusetts," Rhode Island Bar Journal, November 2001

"Drunk Driving: Recent Developments in the Law," Rhode Island Bar Journal, May 1999

"The Thickening Briar Patch of Legal Malpractice," Rhode Island Bar Journal, April 1998

"Drunk Driving Law Update," Rhode Island Bar Journal, October, 1994. Author: "What to Do if You Get Sued for Legal Malpractice," Rhode Island Bar Journal, October 1995

"Checklist for the Prosecution: How to Prove a DWI," Rhode Island Bar Journal, March 1995

"Punishment Before Conviction -- The Effect of Automatic Post-Arrest Incarceration for Drunk Driving," Rhode Island Bar Journal, May 1993

"Defending Dual Prosecutions - The Driver Who Has Refused the Chemical Test," Rhode Island Bar Journal, April 1992

"The Midnight Call - Advising the Client to Submit to a Chemical Test," Rhode Island Bar Journal, March 1991

Fellow, Rhode Island Bar Foundation.

Reported Cases:

International Brotherhood of Police Officers, Local No. 302 v. Town of Portsmouth, 506 A.2d 540 (R.I. 1986)

Newport Auto Salvage, Inc. et al. v. Town Council of the Town of Portsmouth Acting as Board of License Commissioners et al., 502 A.2d 339 (R.I. 1985)

State v. Carcieri, 730 A.2d 11 (R.I. 1999)

State of Rhode Island ex rel. Town of Middletown v. Alden C. Kinder, 769 A.2d 614 (R.I. 2001)

H.R.M., Inc. v. S/V Venture VII et al. 972 F.Supp. 92 (D.R.I. 1997)

French v. Isham et. al., 801 F.Supp. 913 (D R.I. 1992).

Born:

Fall River, Massachusetts, May 24, 1958

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