Atty. Eric D. Correira Elected Secretary of the Rhode Island Bar Association

Correira Law is proud to announce that at the Annual Meeting of the Rhode Island Bar Association (RIBA) held in June of this year, Atty. Eric D. Correira was elected as RIBA’s 2026-2027 Secretary. With his election to the one-year Secretary position, Eric will then serve as RIBA’s Treasurer for 2027-2028, President-Elect for 2028-2029, and finally President for 2029-2030.

For the last six years, Eric has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Rhode Island Bar Journal, and in turn a member of both the Bar’s Executive Committee and House of Delegates. In addition, since his admission to the Rhode Island Bar in 2009, he has been a member of several different RIBA committees, including the Bar Journal Editorial Board, Annual Meeting Planning Committee, Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Committee, Probate and Trust Committee, New Lawyers Committee, and Technology in the Practice Committee. Eric has also presented numerous CLE and Annual Meeting programs for RIBA over the years, and had several articles published in the Bar Journal.

During Eric’s time as Editor-in-Chief, the Bar Journal returned to its traditional print format (after it was changed to digital only during the pandemic) and now permits law students to co-author articles with either a Rhode Island attorney or law professor. Another significant update for the Bar Journal, launched in the last year, is that all past issues of the publication are currently available in a searchable database on RIBA’s website, making researching articles much easier than in the past.

As a member of the Executive Committee, Eric works with other bar leaders in managing the general governance and administrative operations of the Bar Association. Perhaps the highlight of his time on the Executive Committee to date was helping spearhead the Bar’s push last year to pass a new statute, R.I.G.L. § 18-1-5, that protects the attorney-client privilege in trust and other fiduciary matters. The new statute puts Rhode Island in line with the majority of states that ensure that the relationship between an attorney and client serving as a trustee or other fiduciary is subject to the same attorney-client privilege protections afforded to other types of attorney-client relationships.

For the July/August 2026 issue of the Rhode Island Bar Journal, which includes introductions of all the RIBA 2026-2027 Executive Officers (President Dana M. Horton, Esq., President-Elect Holly R. Rao, Esq., Treasurer Kathleen Wyllie, Esq., and Secretary Eric D. Correira, Esq.), click here.