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Ms. Darigan is a partner and co-chair of the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group. She enjoys a diverse commercial, business and regulatory litigation practice, representing a broad range of clients in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies. In addition to working in the trial and appellate courts, Ms. Darigan advises clients in alternative dispute resolution matters.

Ms. Darigan provides counsel on complex litigation to clients in the banking, insurance and mortgage servicing industries. She defends financial services providers and insurers in class actions and other complex matters alleging improper administrative and lending policies, wrongful collections practices and breach of fiduciary duty as well as commercial contract disputes. In addition, Ms. Darigan formed the Firm’s electronic Discovery Team. This team of skilled litigation attorneys advises clients on all aspects of E-Discovery in the state and federal courts, including strategies for pre-litigation management of electronically stored information.

In collaboration with the experienced attorneys in the Firm’s Probate, Trust & Personal Planning Practice Group, Ms. Darigan represents individual and corporate fiduciaries in all types of probate and trust litigation in the probate and superior courts, on appeal, in a mediation or arbitration, including will and trust contests, disputes over the distribution of trust assets, interpretation of instruments, trust reformations, accounting proceedings and disputes over the exercise of discretionary powers.

Ms. Darigan is a Mentor in the Firm’s Mentoring Program and co-founded and assists with the administration of WAVE (Women AdVocates for Enterprise), a Firm initiative designed to promote women in business. For several years she served as the Firm’s Ombudsman.

EDUCATION
Catholic University of America, J.D., 1992

George Washington University, B.A., 1989

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Rhode Island Bar Association
   Executive Committee, Member; House of
   Delegates, Member; Superior Court Bench/Bar
   Committee,; Co-chair and Secretary; Task Force
   on Pro Bono Legal Services, Member; Ad Hoc
   Committee on Emergency; Preparedness, Member
Massachusetts Bar Association
American Bar Association
   Litigation and Business Law Divisions
Rhode Island Trial Lawyers Association
Rhode Island Women’s Bar Association
Leadership Rhode Island , Class of 2000
American Inns of Court
Litigation Counsel of America
   Fellow

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
"Legal Duties Owed by Independent Insurance Agents Under Rhode Island Law" The Anchor. January 2009

"Optional Business Entity Licensing with the Department of Business Regulation" The Anchor. September 2008

"Back on the Record with Rhode Island Records Retention" The Anchor. June 2008

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Providence ¡CITYARTS! for Youth, Inc.
   Secretary
Leading Women
    Advisory Board Member
Rhode Island Coalition for Minority Investment
   Board Member
Providence Business News
    40 under Forty (2005)
Rhode Island Coalition for Minority Investment and Minority Investment Development Corporation,
    Founders Award (2004)
Perishable Theater
   Influential Women in RI Award (2001)

BAR MEMBERSHIPS
Rhode Island, 1992
U.S. District Court, Rhode Island, 1993
Massachusetts, 1993
U.S. District Court, Massachusetts , 1993
U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit, 1997
U.S. Supreme Court, 1997