LEGAL REPRESENTATION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION SERVICES
The firm delivers a full range of services in legal representation and impartial conflict resolution. We are committed to achieving the most effective and most successful resolution of disputes – as attorney, mediator or arbitrator - in keeping with your interests, your goals, and your special circumstances.
Communities Served –
We serve all of Rhode Island, including Newport, Kent, Washington, Providence Counties, and Towns of South Kingstown, North Kingstown, New Shoreham, Exeter, Charlestown, Richmond, Hopkinton, Westerly, Newport, Jamestown, Middletown, Portsmouth, East Greenwich, West Greenwich, Coventry, Warwick, Cranston, Providence. Our mediation and arbitration clients are from many jurisdictions, mostly New England and the Atlantic Coast.
Experienced Representation - In choosing this firm, you benefit from more than twenty-five years of reliable, experienced legal advice and litigation experience. Ariel Law Associates Ltd. is proud to have helped its clients over the years resolve their personal, business and organizational matters efficiently, at reasonable cost, and always with an eye on the client’s stated objectives.
Knowledgeable & Effective – We handle real estate, debts, personal injury, business, domestic, criminal defense and estates. Our clients are both plaintiffs and defendants in cases ranging from an uncontested divorce or a bankruptcy petition to complex toxic tort or construction defect or contested interest in land litigation. The firm also has extensive experience acting as an impartial third party neutral mediator, facilitator, or arbitrator, resolving disputes through mediation, arbitration and other procedures as alternatives to litigation. Christine W. Ariel, Esq. is licensed to practice law in the State of Rhode Island District, Family, Superior, Supreme Courts and Traffic Tribunal as well as the United States Bankruptcy Court and the United States District Court and the First Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a certified and approved Mediator and Arbitrator.
Reliable - We understand that finding an attorney who will diligently pursue your claim or defense can be difficult. We thoroughly investigate your case and continue throughout the engagement to look at all available avenues for resolution. You will have a clear understanding of the nature and extent of the work required. We will estimate the time and expense involved in your case and then set those terms out in writing for you to review. Fees are based on the time and complexity involved in the case, among other factors, and depending upon the type of work involved, they may be hourly, fixed, or contingent upon the results achieved for you. All of our clients receive prompt and courteous service and we will keep you fully informed regarding your case. Our experienced and efficient office staff is always available to assist you with the status of your case, scheduling matters, document handling, communications with other parties, and other important details.
Call for a consultation today!
401.295.2922 or email cwariel@ariellawassociates.com
Christine W. Ariel, Esq.
Ariel Law Associates Ltd.
1130 Ten Rod Road
Suite F204
North Kingstown, RI 02852
401.295.2922
888.295.2923
Fax: 401.295.9410
ATTORNEY PROFILE
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Private practice, Ariel Law Associates Ltd., North Kingstown, R.I. (established 1992).
The firm provides legal representation services and impartial conflict resolution services to businesses, nonprofit organizations and individuals.
Ms. Ariel chaired the R.I. Bar Association’s Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee for five years and chaired the 2001-2002 Rhode Island Supreme Court’s Task Force on Alternate Dispute Resolution which was instrumental in furthering ADR in the state court system. Ms. Ariel has presented professional seminars on topics such as Mediation Representation for Advocates and Freshwater Wetlands Regulation.
As Special Assistant Attorney General, Rhode Island Department of Attorney General, Ms. Ariel served in the Civil Division, Environmental Prosecution Unit handling civil actions, administrative matters and criminal grand jury investigations for State environmental agencies like the Coastal Resources Management Council and Department of Environmental Management. She also acted as criminal prosecutor within the Criminal Division for the District, Family and Superior Court Units where she handled both bench and jury trials. Ms. Ariel presented papers at the Northeast Hazardous Waste Conference, the Environmental Criminal Institute, and the National Ocean Pollution Conference.
As Assistant General Counsel, Vermont National Education Association, Ms. Ariel assisted in-house counsel with public sector employment, labor and civil rights litigation and handling grievance arbitrations, mediations and collective bargaining activities.
Ms. Ariel previously worked for six years as a biologist and wetlands ecologist for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service-National Wildlife Refuge System, the Rhode Island Audubon Society, and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management-Freshwater Wetlands Section inventorying and evaluating environmental resources in Rhode Island for purposes of preservation, enforcement action and/or alteration.
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Vermont Law School, Juris Doctorate 1985
University of Rhode Island, Bachelor of Arts 1976 |
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United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit 1990
United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island 1988
Rhode Island Supreme Court 1987 |
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American Bar Association
Rhode Island Bar Association -Past Chair, Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee
Association for Conflict Resolution -Advanced Practitioner Member
Certified Panel of Mediators, R.I. Family Court, U.S. Postal Service
Approved Panel of Mediators-Arbitrators, R.I. Superior Court
Rotary International, Past President |
