Melissa Darigan, Esq. was sworn in as president of the Rhode Island Bar Association at its annual meeting for a one-year term effective July 1. She is a partner of the business law and litigation firm, Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP, and co-chair of the firm's litigation practice group.
She specializes in complex commercial, business and regulatory litigation for insurance companies and financial institutions and estate and trust litigation in the probate and superior courts, including will contests and fiduciary liability matters. Darigan is a mentor in the firm's mentoring program and co-founded and co-chairs the firm's Women AdVocates for Enterprise (WAVE) initiative to help women in business advance professionally. She is a graduate of George Washington University and earned her law degree from Catholic University of America.