This area of the Rhode Island Bar Association Web site is a clearinghouse for Association membership benefit programs.
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.
A consulting service contracted by the Association to assist you at no charge. CorpCare provides health counselors to work with you to address your concerns. The professionals at CorpCare 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 CorpCare 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.
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.
Fastcase provides industry-leading tools to make legal research easier and more intuitive. Lawyers, law firms, and bar associations across the country trust Fastcase to provide them with comprehensive access to the law through an innovative and award-winning platform. Fastcase helps forward-thinking lawyers natigate the law faster and smarter.
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.
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 www.attorneys-advantage.com
Built by lawyers - powered by pros, the ABA Retirement Funds Program has been providing flexible, tailored retirement plans exclusively to legal community, for nearly 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 to and through retirement. Call us at 781-796-9059 for a free consultation or visit abaretirement.com for more information.
Peter Villani
Regional Vice President, Sales
ABA Retirement Funds Program
30 Braintree Hill Office Park
Braintree, MA 02184
(781) 796-9059
peter.villani@abaretirement.com
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
Rachel Nourse
USI Insurance Services
Employee Benefits Account Manager
475 Kilvert Street
Building B, Suite 205
Warwick, RI 02886
Phone: 401-558-3143
Email: rachel.nourse@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
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*Clio is a legal technology solution recommended by the Rhode Island Bar Association. Members of RIBA receive a 10% discount on Clio products. Clio Draft can only be discounted at the time of purchase and cannot be retroactively applied.
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.