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MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
This area of the Rhode Island Bar Association Web site is a clearinghouse for Association membership benefit programs.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 30 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 www.attorneys-advantage.com
  • ABA Members Retirement Program
    The ABA Retirement Funds Program (“the Program”) offers an employer-sponsored retirement plan; built by lawyers, powered by pros. For over 55 years, the Program has been committed to providing the tools necessary to help all legal professionals achieve retirement security. Our structure allows your firm to focus on the success of the practice while we provide the highest level of fiduciary oversight allowable through ERISA, 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 corporation. Through the unique culture created between the ABA Retirement Funds and our Program partners, we aspire to help every law firm, lawyer and legal professional secure their financial futures. Call us at 800-826-8901 for a free consultation or click here for more information.
     
  • 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

    Kelsey O’Donnell
    USI Insurance Services
    Account Manager
    475 Kilvert Street
    Building B, Suite 205
    Warwick, RI 02886
    Phone:  401-558-3117
    Email:  Kelsey.ODonnell@usi.com
  • Clio
    Clio is the most widely-used, cloud-based practice management system in the world. Everyday, tens of thousands of lawyers use Clio to schedule meetings, organize cases, track time, and invoice their clients. Accessible from your Mac or PC, Phone or Tablet, Clio allows lawyers to take control of their practice from any device, in any location, at any time. Clio even integrates seamlessly with other popular applications like LawPay, Dropbox, Quickbooks Online, Gmail, and Office 365. Rhode Island Bar members receive a 10% lifetime discount on Clio. Sign up today!
     
  • Omnizant 
    Omnizant offers website design and marketing services for law firms.  Specializing exclusively in legal marketing, Omnizant offers attorneys a completely customized website solution which includes striking graphics, unlimited revisions and site pages, an extensive content library and search engine optimization. Their comprehensive website platform boasts integrated site tools such as click to call technology, blogging, a comprehensive e-newsletter system, online event management and secure document storage. Rhode Island Bar Association members receive a 25% discount on website development services. To learn more, contact an online marketing consultant at (877) 847-8163, or click here.

  • Law Pay: Credit Card Processing for Attorneys                                 
    Recommended by 50 state and more than 70 local and specialty bars, LawPay is proud to be the preferred payment partner of more than 50,000 lawyers. Designed specifically for the legal industry, LawPay provides attorneys with a simple, secure way to accept online credit card and eCheck payments in their practice. LawPay understands the unique compliance and financial requirements placed on attorneys, which is why their solution was developed specifically to correctly separate earned and unearned fees, giving you peace of mind that your credit card and eCheck transactions are always handled correctly. For more than a decade, LawPay has made it as easy as possible for attorneys to receive payment for their services. To learn more, call 866-376-0950 or visit our website.
  • 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. Use the RIBA purchase promo code when making your purchase and the 15% discount will be applied to your total. Log in to the members only page to receive the discount code.
    *Discount does not apply to ABA-CLE iPod products.
     
  • Legal Research
    In January 2003, the RI Bar Association introduced an exciting new member benefit - the Casemaker online law library. This free, exclusive RIBA service is an easily searchable, continually updated database of case law, statutes and regulations. Unlike the commercial research services, there are no monthly or hourly fees for Rhode Island Bar attorney members to use Casemaker, and access is unlimited, 24 hours a day. Sign in to the members only area of the website for more information.
     
  • 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.
     
  • Rhode Island Bar Association By-Laws
    The By-laws detail the objectives of the Rhode Island Bar Association with regard to its members.
     
  • 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.
     
  • Listing of Association Committees
    Check out the list of committees available for our members to join.   If you are interested you can join by downloading the form and faxing it to us at 401.421.2703
     
  • 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.
     
  • RI Bar Journal Cumulative Index
    An index of Bar Journal articles from Volumes 1-54 (1952-2006)
     
     
     
     
     

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