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Mark Mandell:

Mark Mandell graduated from Georgetown University Law Center receiving his J.D. in 1974.  When Mark graduated from Georgetown he served as a law clerk for the Honorable U.S. District Judge Edward W. Day in the United States Federal District Court in Providence for a year before entering private practice.

Mark is a Board Certified Civil Trial Specialist with the National Board of Trial Advocacy, a member of the Panel of Brief Reviewers for the National Board of Trial Advocacy, a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, a member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the American Judicature Society.  He has also attained bar membership in United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island and in the States of Rhode Island and Alabama.

Mark Mandell has served as President of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Roscoe Pound Institute of Civil Justice, the Rhode Island Bar Association and the Rhode Island Trial Lawyers Association.  He has chaired the Board of Bar Examiners for the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island and is currently the immediate Past President-Elect of the National Crime Victims Bar Association.  He not only has served these presidential roles but has served many intermediary positions in these prestigious groups.

Attorney Mandell is a current member of the Rhode Island Supreme Court Ethics Advisory Panel and has also served on the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Judicial Appointments, the Rhode Island Supreme Court Commission on the Future of Rhode Island Judicial System, the Rhode Island Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline, and the Governor’s Council on Mental Health.

He is currently a member of the Alabama Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers, the Rhode Island Trial Lawyers Association and the Rhode Island Bar Association.  Mark has written 22 articles in well known journals and has lectured many hundreds of times to Trial Lawyers Associations, state and national, in 38 different states and internationally. Attorney Mandell is currently listed in the publication "The Best Lawyers in America".

Mark Mandell focuses his practice on catastrophic personal injury cases, wrongful death cases, liquor liability cases, medical negligence cases, nursing home cases and business litigation.  He has obtained many million dollar trial verdicts and settlements for his clients including recently receiving the highest verdict ever received in Washington County, Rhode Island for his latest victory in a dram shop case in the amount of $15,246,000.00.

Mark Mandell has won many awards that include:

2003-   “Harry M. Philo Award” in 2003 from the Association of Trial   Lawyers of America

1999-   “Lawyer of the Year Award” from the Melvin Belli National     Society

1998-   “Citizen of the Year Award” from the Rhode Island Trial         Lawyers Association

1987-   “Rhode Island Jewish Citizen of the Year Award” from the      Jewish Community Center of Rhode Island

1984-   “Merrill L. Hassenfeld Leadership in Community Service Award” from the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island

Attorney Mandell is also an active member of the community as he was formerly on the Board of Directors of The Miriam Hospital, Board of Directors of the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island, Board of Directors of the Urban League of Rhode Island, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Holocaust Memorial Committee of Rhode Island, President of the Jewish Community Center of Rhode Island, member of the Executive-Finance Committee of The Wheeler School, Chairman of the Education Committee of The Wheeler School, the Board of Trustees of the Wheeler School and currently the Advisory Board of the Roger Williams University School of Law.

Michael Schwartz:

Michael Schwartz is a Rhode Island native and a graduate of Classical High School.  After college at American University and law school at SUNY Buffalo, he began his legal career with the firm of Lovett and Linder where he concentrated his practice in the area of Workers’ Compensation law.

In February 1981, Michael began his long association with Mark Mandell as they focused their work in the representation of litigants in complex civil cases.  Among his successes is the multi million-dollar jury verdict for the plaintiff in the case of Oliviera v. Woman & Infant’s Hospital.  Michael has also continued his interest in the arena of workers compensation where he currently primarily represents self-insured employers.

Michael Schwartz has lectured extensively in the field of civil litigation and worker’s compensation.  He has also served as the past Chair of the Rhode Island Supreme Court Committee on Character and Fitness.  He is a former officer of the Rhode Island Trial Lawyer’s Association and a long-term member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America where, among other posts, he has served as the Chair of the Ethical Conduct Committee.

Outside of the legal field, Michael currently serves as a board member of the Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association and he remains as a multi committee chair at Ledgemont Country Club, where he is a past president.

Yvette Boisclair:

Yvette M. Boisclair practice areas include personal injury and medical malpractice (with a special interest in cases dealing with women’s health issues such as obstetrics, gynecology, breast cancer and gynecologic cancers) as well as motor vehicle liability, product liability, and a wide variety of general liability cases involving catastrophic injuries and wrongful death.    

Attorney Boisclair graduated from Providence College (magna cum laude, 1984) and Suffolk University School of Law (cum laude, 1989).  Yvette graduated from Woonsocket High School (Class Valedictorian, 1980).  Yvette joined the firm in 1989 and became a partner in 1996. 

Yvette Boisclair is currently a member of the Rhode Island Bar Association, Rhode Island Trial Lawyers Association, the Rhode Island Women’s Bar Association (past board member), and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.  She is a long-time member of the Rhode Island Bar Association’s Medical Legal Committee.