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R. KELLY SHERIDAN 1.401.521.7000 x2329




R. Kelly Sheridan has been a member of the firm since 1978 and concentrates his practice in the areas of civil litigation, administrative law and lobbying. Mr. Sheridan has extensive litigation experience with over three dozen jury trials in state and federal courts, primarily the defense of medical malpractice and professional liability claims. Additional litigation experience includes complex commercial disputes as well as insurance coverage, products liability and employment discrimination claims. Mr. Sheridan also has an active appellate practice with over two dozen arguments before the Rhode Island Supreme Court, many involving issues of first impression, including separation of powers under the Providence Home Rule Charter, a constitutional challenge to the legislative charter of a health maintenance organization, the first case under the Rhode Island open records statute and the creation of a cause of action for wrongful pregnancy.

Mr. Sheridan also has extensive experience handling regulatory and administrative matters before numerous state departments and agencies, including permitting and enforcement actions before the Departments of Health, Business Regulation and Environmental Management. Mr. Sheridan has particular experience in insurance and health care regulation, including insurance rate hearings as well as representation of physicians, hospitals, health care facilities and health maintenance organizations in a wide range administrative proceedings. As the principal outside counsel for a health maintenance organization for many years, Mr. Sheridan has extensive experience in state regulation of health plans and the defense of claims against managed care organizations.

Mr. Sheridan has an active public sector practice. He has served as legal counsel to the Rhode Island Board of Accountancy since 1992 and has also represented the Rhode Island Board of Bar Examiners, the Rhode Island Board of Elections and the State of Rhode Island. He has represented numerous municipalities, mayors and city/town councils on a wide range of issues, including numerous suits relating to separation of powers at the municipal level. He has also represented many municipalities in litigation involving constitutional challenges under their home rule charters.

Mr. Sheridan has been a registered lobbyist at the Rhode Island State House for over twenty years. In this capacity he has represented a diverse array of local and national industries, trade associations and non-profit organizations. Representative clients include United HealthCare of New England, Merck, the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce and the Rhode Island Judiciary.

Mr. Sheridan has assumed many leadership roles in the legal profession in Rhode Island, including serving as President of the Rhode Island Bar Association as well as on numerous boards and commissions of the Supreme Court. He presently serves on the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Commission of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and on the Board of Directors of the Rhode Island Bar Foundation. He previously served on the Rhode Island Commission on Judicial Tenure and Discipline, the Disciplinary Board of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, the Roger Williams Inn of Court and as a Director of the New England Bar Association and Rhode Island Legal Services. Mr. Sheridan is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Mr. Sheridan lectures frequently at continuing education seminars and institutes and has participated in numerous seminars and panels dealing with civil trial practice, professional liability and health care claims.

Mr. Sheridan has also served as a Director of numerous community organizations over the past two decades, including the United Way of Southeastern New England, the Greater Providence YMCA, St. Mary's Home for Children and Common Cause.

Mr. Sheridan graduated magna cum laude from Hampden-Sydney College and received his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1977. Before joining the firm he served as law clerk to the Hon. Thomas Kelleher, Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.