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Daniel K. Kinder is a shareholder of Little, Medeiros, Kinder, Bulman & Whitney, P.C. and has represented employers in the private, public, and non-profit sectors since 1978. He has litigated age, sex, race, religion, national origin, and disability discrimination cases in state and federal forums. He assists clients in defending against union organizational efforts and in preventive employee relations. Dan regularly negotiates labor agreements for a wide array of employers in manufacturing, health care, education, and other industries. He has assisted federal contractors in numerous enterprises in developing affirmative action plans and regularly advises employers on compliance with state and federal employment laws.

Dan is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia Law School. Among his professional associations are the American Bar Association and its Labor and Employment Law Section, as well as the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee. He is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America, and New England Super Lawyers (Top 20). He has also received a peer review AV rating by Martindale Hubbell.

Nick Brown is a 2009 honors graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he was an Executive Editor of the Connecticut Journal of International Law and a Teacher's Assistant of Constitutional Law. He practices primarily in the field of labor and employment law. While in law school Nick worked as a law clerk in the Property & Casualty Law Group at a major insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.

In May 2010, Nick joined Little, Medeiros, Kinder, Bulman & Whitney, P.C., where he has assisted on various matters involving Rhode Island's education laws and regulations. 

Sara Rapport's practice emphasizes labor and employment law. She represents school committees and other municipal employers in negotiations, and before administrative bodies and in the courts. On a daily basis Sara advises employers regarding best practices and compliance with federal and state labor, employment and education law. She also regularly prosecutes interest arbitration hearings on behalf of municipal employers. Sara has represented an employer in Superior Court and before the Supreme Court, successfully defending against a complex claim seeking injunctive relief, and prosecuting a matter of first impression addressing the intersection of state education and labor law. Sara also has represented a female business owner in achieving state certification as a Woman Business Enterprise.

Sara Rapport brings experience from a dynamic and diverse legal career to LMKBW. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1987, where she was an editor of the Law Review, she clerked at the United States Court of Appeals. Thereafter she served as a federal public defender in California before returning to Rhode Island, where she was an associate and then partner at Perkins, Smith & Cohen. As a litigation attorney, Sara's courtroom experience involved civil employment matters and criminal defense.

Sara served as senior assistant city solicitor for the city of Providence for five years. Her work focused on serving the city on education, employment, labor and related legal matters. She has a record of successful representation in state and federal courts, as well as administrative forums on matters of employment law and personal injury for city departments.

In addition to her work with the city, Sara acted as chief legal advisor to the Providence School Department and School Board. She represented the School Department in a variety of public settings, implemented legal practices to support Board policies, and reviewed agreements with corporate and governmental agencies. Sara also developed curriculum and presented training seminars on the investigation and discipline of employees and the fundamentals of employment law.

Tim Cavazza's practice focuses on labor and employment law and construction law. He works extensively in labor relations and advises employers in grievances and interest arbitrations. Tim also counsels employers in employment discrimination proceedings and contract negotiations in the public sector.

Tim began his career in labor relations and employment law at Skoler, Abbott & Presser, P.C., one of the largest firms in New England providing labor and employment law services exclusively to management and employers. Tim's experience there included exposure to all aspects of employment litigation in state and federal court, as well as the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In addition to advising management clients in matters involving federal and state wage and hour laws, Title VII, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the WARN Act, the National Labor Relations Act and state law equivalents, Tim assisted in representing employers in collective bargaining negotiations against the Teamsters Union, the Service Employees' International Union, the Steelworkers, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and others.

Tim earned his J.D. from Roger Williams University School of Law magna cum laude and received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Labor Law, Property, Contracts II and Trial Advocacy. While in law school, Tim served as a Judicial Intern for the Honorable Ernest C. Torres in the United States District Court, District of Rhode Island, he worked as a legal intern with the Rhode Island Department of Attorney General, and he also worked as a summer associate with a general practice law firm in Providence, Rhode Island.

Prior to beginning his legal career, Tim worked in the commercial construction industry for several years in both unionized and non-unionized environments. During much of that time, Tim worked as a foreman/general foreman for a large Boston-based company with a unionized workforce, and he managed numerous commercial construction projects throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island, including Amgen, Inc. in West Greenwich, Rhode Island. Tim's hands-on labor relations experience provides him with real world skills and unique insight into the issues presented by both unionized and a non-unionized workforces.

The Rhode Island Supreme Court licenses all lawyers in the general practice of law. The court does not license or certify any lawyer as an expert or specialist in any field of practice.

Each month, the Rhode Island Employment Law Letter three-part subscription package delivers the practical, hands-on advice you need to manage your Rhode Island workforce safely and in compliance with Rhode Island and federal laws. That's because the newsletter's editors are Rhode Island attorneys who defend and counsel employers statewide.

Each issue also keeps you on top of U.S. Supreme Court and Rhode Island court decisions that affect your workforce, all reported with Rhode Island's local laws and policies in mind. You get all the information you need to stay in business — and out of the courtroom.

Your complete subscription package includes:

1. Rhode Island Employment Law Letter — 12 monthly issues mailed to you and also available online. Also includes periodic NewsAlerts by e-mail as needed.
   
2. Access to HRhero.com Subscribers-Only Area — You'll find a wealth of helpful information, available to subscribers only, at no additional cost:
   
   • Employment Law Letter articles from all 50 states plus D.C.;
   • Sample policies;
   • Your state's statutes and regulations affecting employers;
   • Federal statutes and regulations on employment and labor law;
   • Results from Surveys of HR professionals;
   • HR Executive Special Reports — more than 20 of our in-depth reports;
   • Hot Topics;
   • Employers Forum online commuity for HR professionals and counsel.
   
   
3. Mastering HR Reports — 60-page reports covering topics that are too complex to be fully covered in your monthly newsletter. You'll periodically receive a new Special Report via e-mail, and more than 20 are available online.

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