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Member Benefits
As a member of the Rhode Island Bar Association, you have access to a wide range of benefits and services designed to support your personal well-being, professional growth, and practice management. Whether you’re seeking legal research tools, health and wellness support, insurance guidance, or business resources for your firm, this page provides an overview of the programs and discounts available to you.

Lawyers Helping Lawyers

The Confidential Assistance Program is a free service available to all Rhode Island Bar Association members and their dependents. This service is a highly confidential, professional source of help for persons needing information, assessment and referral to counseling or treatment resources throughout Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

SupportLinc

CorpCare is now SupportLinc! This consulting service is contracted by the Association to assist you at no charge. SupportLinc provides health counselors to work with you to address your concerns. The professionals at SupportLinc provide confidential consultation for a wide range of personal concerns including (but not limited to): balancing work and family, child and eldercare, depression, anxiety, domestic violence, aging, grief, career satisfaction, alcohol and substance abuse, and problem gambling. Everyone occasionally experiences problems.

The SupportLinc helpline provides counseling resources that quickly and professionally assist you in handling problems affecting your personal or work life. Why allow problems to weigh you down? Completely confidential help is just a call away. Counselors answer the phone 24/7 to provide immediate support and assistance. Simply pick up the telephone and call 866-482-8378 for confidential, round the clock support. Virtual telehealth consultations with a counselor are available upon request.

To access SupportLinc's services online, members will need to create an account and enter the group code ribalap. Calling the helpline and using BetterHelp do not require creating an account.

Red Cave Legal Consulting

The Rhode Island Bar Association now offers FREE law practice management consulting services through Red Cave Law Firm Consulting. Red Cave Law Firm Consulting is a business management consulting service developed specifically for legal professionals. With over a decade of experience, Red Cave offers practical advice to improve your firm’s marketing, accounting, and technology solutions, as well as consistent support and accountability as you push towards your goals. To request a consult, visit the Rhode Island Bar’s law practice management page, and start running your law firm like a business. You will need to login with your bar number and password.

Legal Research - vLexFastcase

vLex Fastcase provides industry-leading tools to make legal research easier and more intuitive. Lawyers, law firms, and bar associations across the country trust vLex Fastcase to provide them with comprehensive access to the law through an innovative and award-winning platform. vLex Fastcase helps forward-thinking lawyers navigate the law faster and smarter. 

Now Available: Access to HeinOnline

RIBA members now have complimentary access to HeinOnline, providing searchable access to every past issue of the Rhode Island Bar Journal, from the very first publication to today. This benefit is included with your membership at no additional cost. Members may also choose to purchase expanded access directly through HeinOnline for additional research resources.

Clio - The #1 Practice Management Software

Clio is the global leader in legal AI, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely. Clio’s purpose-built Intelligent Legal Work Platform streamlines workflows, improves decision-making, and combines powerful technology with industry-leading security. Trusted by 400,000+ legal professionals in more than 130 countries, and approved by over 100 bar associations and law societies worldwide, Clio sets the standard for innovation and client success across the legal profession.

Click here to redeem your Rhode Island Bar Association* discount below and schedule a demo to begin working in Clio today!

*Clio is a legal technology solution recommended by the Rhode Island Bar Association. Members of Rhode Island Bar Association receive a 10% discount on Clio products, excluding Clio Draft.

CosmoLex

CosmoLex Law Practice Management Software combines practice management, billing AND accounting, all in one login -- making it the total solution that solo & small law firms can rely on to run their entire practice.  Cloud access lets you get work done in the office or on the road. CosmoLex practice management keeps your meetings and tasks organized ensuring nothing slips through the cracks. Billing section captures all time and expenses in the moment – as soon as they occur. Your bills go out on time and you reap the rewards of better cash flow, higher profits. The accounting menu handles all the intricacies of business and trust accounting right out of the box. Small Law firms in all 50 states use CosmoLex to make their practice more compliant, efficient and profitable. Rhode Island bar members receive a 10% lifetime discount on CosmoLex. You can try CosmoLex free for 10 days and see how it streamlines your entire practice.

Career Center

The Rhode Island Bar Association’s Career Center is operated by YourMembership.com. At no charge, Bar members may: search and quickly apply for relevant jobs; set up personalized Job Alerts for immediate notification any time a job is posted matching your skills and/or interests; create an anonymous job seeker profile or upload your anonymous resume allowing employers to find you; and access job-searching tools and tips. For a fee, employers may place job openings; search our resume database of qualified candidates; manage jobs and applicant activity right on our site; limit applicants to those who meet your requirements, and fill openings more quickly with talented legal professionals. To learn more, click here.

Professional Liability Insurance

The AON Attorneys' Advantage program offers professional liability insurance coverage sponsored by the RI Bar Association.  Through a combination of Affinity Insurance Services, Inc. offices and a network of Independent Territorial Administrators, the AON Attorneys' Advantage program is able to provide broad coverage, competitive rates outstanding local service and risk management service.  To learn more about the benefits and features of the program  visit the AON website at attorneys-advantage.com

ABA Retirement Funds Program

Built by Lawyers, Powered by Pros® – the ABA Retirement Funds Program has been providing flexible, tailored retirement plans exclusively to the legal community, for over 60 years. Our structure allows your firm to focus on the success of the practice while we provide the highest standard of fiduciary protection afforded to an individual retirement plan, reducing your fiduciary risk. Through our purposeful innovation we provide an investment platform with options to allow for optimal choice and flexibility for your participants and a fully bundled service model, custom designed to meet the unique needs of your firm, to help you and your plan participants learn more, save more and worry less. And we offer all of this at a competitive price whether you are a solo practitioner or a large legal organization. Through the unique culture created between the ABA Retirement Funds and our service providers, it is the mission of the Program to help every law firm, lawyer and legal professional attain their financial goals. Call Jessica Danner at 508-954-4222 or reach out via email at Jessica.danner@abaretirement.com for a free consultation. Please visit abaretirement.com for more information.

Jessica Danner
Regional Vice President, Sales
121 Seaport Boulevard, 11th floor
Boston, MA 02210
508-954-4222
Jessica.danner@abaretirement.com

USI New England
USI New England is the Rhode Island Bar Association's relationship administrator with Blue Cross Blue Shield and Delta Dental. As a convenience for Bar Association, members, USI New England will act as a liaison between Blue Cross/Delta Dental and Bar members as an alternative to direct Bar member contact with Blue Cross/Delta Dental. Bar members' insurance rates are determined by Blue Cross/Delta Dental and not by USI New England. USI is only the acting agent on behalf of Blue Cross/Delta Dental. There are no savings in Blue Cross/Delta Dental payment rates by going through USI New England. These rates are based on the demographics of the law office and/or the individual attorney applying for coverage. A member may contact Blue Cross/Delta Dental directly without going through USI New England, and the premium will be exactly the same. USI New England is contracted to provide Rhode Island Bar members enrollment, billing service, insurance advice and to assist Rhode Island Bar members with other health/dental and benefits insurance alternatives.

USI New England
5700 Post Road
East Greenwich, RI 02818

Nate Colton
USI Insurance Services
Employee Benefits Account Manager
475 Kilvert Street
Building B, Suite 205
Warwick, RI 02886
Phone:  401-558-3113
Email: nate.colton@usi.com

For Medicare inquiries, please contact the RIBA's Medicare Consultant:
John Foxx
My Benefit Advisor, LLC
Account Executive - Medicare
Phone:  203-634-2812

Omnizant

Since 2006, Omnizant has helped over 2,200 law firms create dynamic websites and effective lead-generation campaigns. Their goal is simple—to help attorneys achieve their growth goals. Whether you’re a solo practitioner looking to develop a professional website on a budget or a partner in a large practice wanting to double-down on client generation with SEO, Omnizant has the experience and expertise to get you results. Omnizant is pleased to provide the following services to members of the Rhode Island Bar: Budget-friendly Website Design and Hosting via OneFirst by Omnizant*, Website Accessibility Remediation, SEO for Lawyers, Content Marketing, Social Media Marketing, and Branding & Identity. Rhode Island Bar Members receive a one-time $500 discount on marketing services. *Members who choose OneFirst plans will pay just $174/mo (normally $199/mo) and have the one-time design fee waived.

8am™ LawPay: Trusted payments and financial management for law firms

8am LawPay makes it easy for your firm to get paid—fast. Built for legal professionals, it streamlines billing with secure online payments, flexible options like Pay Later financing, and next-business-day deposits. With built-in IOLTA compliance, trust and operating account reporting, and expense management, LawPay makes it easy for clients to pay and easier for you to collect. 

LawPay is part of 8am—the professional business solution that brings together MyCase, CasePeer, and DocketWise, so you can focus on your clients and do more of the work that matters.   

As a member of the Rhode Island Bar, you’ll receive 3 months with no monthly fee when you start with LawPay. Learn more and sign up online.

ABA Publications Discount Program

Your Rhode Island Bar Association membership entitles you to a 15% discount off the list price of any of the American Bar Association's more than 300 titles, whether or not you're a member of the ABA. It's easy to do. Shop at the ABA bookstore. Enter the promo code RIBAR when making your purchase and the 15% discount will be applied to your total. 

ABA Legal Technology Resource Center

The American Bar Association (ABA) Legal Technology Resource Center, a free member benefit of the Rhode Island Bar Association, provides help to members through discussion forums, newsletters, articles, CLE, comparison charts, a hotline, and much more. The Center's online monthly magazine highlights new and useful web sites of interest to attorneys and other legal professionals.

Lawyer Referral Service Program Policies

This Public Service program, sponsored by the Rhode Island Bar Association refers clients to an attorney located in the client's geographic area on a rotational basis. Members may join this worthwhile program for a nominal fee.

Car Rentals

Hertz: Take advantage of the year-round discount program offered to RIBA members.  For more information contact your travel consultant or Hertz at 1.800.654.2210 in the U.S.  In Canada call 1.800.263.0600. CDP Discount code: 85455

Avis: Take advantage of the year-round discount program offered to RIBA members.  For more information contact your travel consultant or Avis at 1-800-633-3469. Discount code is A488502.

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