The Honorable Robert G. Flanders, Jr.

Whelan Corrente & Flanders LLP

Bob is a former Associate Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, where he served for eight years and authored over 400 opinions before returning to private law practice.  In 2018, the Rhode Island Republican Party endorsed and nominated Bob to be its candidate for election to the United States Senate, during which he garnered more votes than any other Republican candidate for a statewide office.  In 2011-2012, the State appointed him as the Receiver for Central Falls, which he then led through a first-ever municipal bankruptcy and restructuring of the City’s finances, thereby eliminating a $6 million operating deficit and providing the City with a 5-year consensual recovery plan.

A former chairman of RI’s Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education (2007-11), and a former Barrington Town Councilman (1982-86), Bob’s practice focuses on high-stakes, problem-solving engagements across a broad range of dispute and transactional areas for individuals, businesses, and employers, including shareholder and partnership disputes, real estate and construction litigation, the defense of employee and consumer finance class actions, insurance coverage matters, mergers and acquisitions, health care issues, complex litigation, government investigations, municipal restructuring, and arbitration matters.  He is also a AAA certified arbitrator and mediator for commercial disputes.

During his college years at Brown, he was a student–athlete who was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, captained the baseball team, quarterbacked the football team, and set the Brown, Ivy League, and Yale Bowl records for the longest run from scrimmage.  Drafted by the Detroit Tigers during his senior year at Brown, Bob played professional baseball for that organization during the summer months while he was a student at Harvard Law School.