Rhode Island Legal Research for Attorneys
The National Legal Research Group was founded in 1969 to provide quality research and writing services to law firms of all shapes and sizes. More than 50 years, 50,000 clients and 185,000 research projects later, we still have the same goal.
We have served over 240 attorneys in Rhode Island on over 400 cases.
NLRG offers a broad range of work products, both objective and advocacy. Our objective products can help you evaluate a case or give you sources to cite in a work product of your own. Our most common advocacy product is a motion brief or trial brief. Earlier in the case, we can draft complaints, answers, and motions, including discovery motions. We also draft signature-ready appellate briefs to the Rhode Island Supreme Court. Here is a broader discussion of the types of products we prepare.
Many of our clients are solo practitioners and small firms. We take great pride in allowing these clients access to the same legal research firepower enjoyed by larger firms, at an affordable price. We cannot work for non-attorneys.
We have over 25 research attorneys. Some work at our headquarters building just west of Charlottesville, Virginia; others work remotely. We list below our attorneys who most regularly work on Rhode Island cases. You can also view full biographies of our entire attorney staff. We specialize by area of law, and many of our attorneys have years of experience working in their areas. All of our research projects are done by human attorneys; we use AI only as one among many research tools.
Our normal turnaround time is 2-3 weeks, but we can sometimes do quick email or telephone reports in as little as 1-2 days, though at a higher billing rate. Here is a full list of our billing rates.
Rhode Island Research Attorney Spotlight
Senior Research Attorney Paul A. Ferrer
B.A., The Johns Hopkins University, 1986. J.D., University of Virginia Law School, 1989. Member (retired), Connecticut Bar. Before joining NLRG in 1992, Paul was an associate, practicing in general corporate, securities, and institutional finance law with a Hartford, Connecticut, firm. His specialties are Agency, Antitrust, Banking, Commodities, Securities, Contracts, RICO, and Corporations. He has extensive experience in removal to and remand from federal court; alternative dispute resolution; sales cases arising under the U.C.C. or the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, federal False Claims Act cases, and government contracts. Read Full Bio
Co-President Suzanne L. Bailey
B.A., University of Virginia, 1980. J.D., University of Detroit School of Law, 1983. Member, Michigan, New York, & Virginia Bars. Prior to joining our firm, Suzanne served as a Law Clerk to The Honorable Stewart A. Newblatt, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, from 1983 to 1985. She left Michigan for New York, and from 1985 to 1990 she was an Assistant Corporation Counsel, promoted to a Deputy Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel, with the New York City Law Department, General Litigation Division, litigating in the state & federal trial courts of New York City. Read Full Bio
Senior Attorney Anne Hemenway
B.A., Harvard University, 1979, Cum Laude. J.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 1985. Member, New Mexico Bar. Anne worked as a legislative assistant for former Senator Birch Bayh and former Senator Joe Tydings in Washington, D.C. Upon graduating from law school, she practiced commercial law for five years before joining NLRG. Read Full Bio
Research Attorney Heidi Waugh
B.A. Cum Laude, Smith College. J.D. Summa Cum Laude, Western New England University School of Law. After graduation, Heidi served as an Appellate Court Attorney at the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department. She then provided freelance research and writing services to civil litigation attorneys and represented children and indigent parents in care and protection proceedings as a private attorney on the Massachusetts Children and Family Law Trial Panel. Heidi continues to serve as a court investigator for the Massachusetts Juvenile Court. She is a member of the Massachusetts and New York bars. Read full bio
Testimonials
"You were on time and under budget."
—Stetson W. Eddy, Tiverton, RI
"Brett Turner did a nice job, as usual."
—Jeremy W. Howe, Newport, RI
"Very happy with the cited cases and discussion! I’m a small solo in a niche practice. I already do a lot of research because my cases are influenced by state, federal and military law, as well as yearly legislation. Since I need to do that nuanced interpretive work myself, it really helped to have somewhere to turn to assist with one of my slightly more mainstream, but very essential, research needs."
—Susan Darnell, Portsmouth, RI
