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January 8, 2008 - The following article was featured in projo.com.

Teen driver accused of fleeing DEM officer put on home confinement

By Edward Fitzpatrick

PROVIDENCE -- After four nights at the state Training School, a Barrington teen was placed on home confinement yesterday, pending a pretrial conference on charges that he drove while impaired, fled from authorities at Colt State Park, slammed into a wall and pinned a pedestrian beneath his car on Dec. 29.

As he awaits the Jan. 22 pretrial conference, the 17-year-old Barrington High School student must turn in his driver's license and undergo a substance-abuse evaluation. He can attend school while on home confinement, but he is prohibited from playing any of the three sports he's involved with at school. The Robocuff voice-recognition system will call his house to make sure he is there when he is supposed to be.

"Where did he get the liquor?" Family Court Chief Judge Jeremiah S. Jeremiah Jr. asked during yesterday's hearing. "I'm curious."

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November 19, 2007 - The following article was featured in Lawyers Weekly.

Employer liable for injury caused by off-duty worker
Employee exceeded limitations on use of company truck

By Eric T. Berkman

ROBERT A. D'AMICO II
REPRESENTED PLANTIFF

An employer could be held liable for injuries sustained by a passenger in a company truck driven by an off-duty employee, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has decided.

The defendant employer argued that because he had limited the employee's authority to use the truck, which the employee crashed while exceeding those limitations, he could not be held responsible for the accident.

But the Supreme Court disagreed, affirming a judgment in Superior Court.

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September 18, 2007 - The following article was featured in the Providence Journal.

Charges against Paz are dropped

By Talia Buford

WILLIAM DEVINE
REPRESENTED PLANTIFF

WARWICK — A judge dismissed the domestic-violence charges against former boxer Vinny Paz in Kent County District Court yesterday, rendering the initial conversation the alleged victim had with police inadmissible after the woman failed to appear in court.

“[Paz’s right] to confront the witness or question her recitation of events is a strict principle that will not be disregarded,” Judge William C. Clifton said.

Paz turned himself in to the police July 30 and was charged with domestic simple assault and domestic disorderly conduct. The alleged victim is Paz’s fiance, Ashley P. Spencer, 25, of Eliot, Maine. On July 27, the police found Spencer, with a bloody nose and crying, on Cowesett Road, not far from Paz’s home, at 54 Tivoli Court. She spoke to the police and was later questioned at the police station. A warrant was issued for Paz’s arrest the next morning.

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October 9, 2006 - The following article was featured in Lawyers Weekly.

Car crash victim compensated with $2.1M verdict

By Noah Schaffer

"We felt we had no choice but to try the case," says plantiffs lawyer
MARK W. DANA

On the eve of trial, plaintiff's lawyer Mark W. Dana of Providence received a $550,000 settlement offer on behalf of his client, a 42-year-old father of two whose leg was crushed in a pickup truck accident.

Dana rejected the half-million-dollar sum - a decision that, in retrospect, proved to be right on the money.

On Sept. 22, a Providence County Superior Court jury returned a $2.1 million verdict on behalf of Dana's client - one of the largest that Rhode Island has seen in the past five years. It tops 2005's biggest verdict and is among the top three this year.

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