Kristin B. Pettey
Practice Summary
Kristin is an experienced litigator with a practice focused on professional malpractice defense. She represents hospitals, physicians, nurses, and other health care providers in Rhode Island and Massachusetts Courts and before administrative licensing boards. She has successfully represented clients in state and federal courts in Rhode Island and Massachusetts and has been involved in both jury and bench trials with several favorable verdicts.
Additionally, Kristin deals with various health care matters, where she represents clients in insurance defense litigation and commercial litigation matters.
Furthermore, Kristin assists clients relative to divorce, separation, child custody disputes, adoptions, and other domestic matters. She has successfully mediated several divorces for client with various types of family legal matters including custody, parenting plans, support, alimony, and asset division.
Not only does Kristin have courtroom experience, she also has considerable experience with alternative dispute resolution, including mediation. When a trial is not appropriate, Kristin helps clients resolve their matters efficiently, responsibly and cost effectively. Prior to joining Roberts, Carroll, Feldstein & Peirce, Kristin managed her own law office in Warren, Rhode Island and handled a wide variety of litigation and transactional matters in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Representative Matters
- After a four week jury trial, obtained a defense verdict for a gastroenterologist who was alleged to have failed to properly diagnose and treat an infection which allegedly led to the permanent injury and disfigurement of the plaintiff.
- Successfully represented hospital and obstetrician in proceedings before the family court enabling the hospital to provide blood products to a pregnant minor over the objection of the minor and her parents on 1st amendment grounds.
- Secured a dismissal without payment on behalf of a family medicine physician of a lawsuit, which alleged that the doctor had failed to properly manage a nursing home patient who died as a result of sepsis, bowel obstruction and perforation.
Practices
Education
- Suffolk University Law School, J.D., cum laude (1998)
- College of the Holy Cross, B.A., cum laude (1995)
- Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (1993 – 1994)
Bar Admissions
- Rhode Island, 1998
- Massachusetts, 1999
- Connecticut, 2022
Professional & Community Involvement
- Selected to Rhode Island Rising Stars 2013, 2011 and 2010
- Rhode Island Bar Association
- Rhode Island Bar Association Pro Bono Publico Award, June 2004
- Adjunct Faculty Member, Roger Williams University, Summer 2001 – Spring 2006
- Paralegal Studies Advisor, Roger Williams University, January 2004 – August 2006
- Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, UMASS Dartmouth, Fall 2003 – Spring 2004