McNamara, Michael M.

A graduate of Columbia University and Fordham University School of Law, Jerry has been a partner at this firm since 1993, and has been managing partner since 2001. For more than 40 years, Jerry has practiced all facets of family law, including divorce, custody, child and spousal support, distribution of property, and pre and post nuptial agreements, maintaining an active trial and appellate practice. Jerry has made the annual list of Best Lawyers in America for over 25 years and was named Best Divorce Lawyer in Rhode Island by Rhode Island Monthly in 1998. He has given seminars on a variety of family law topics, including "Planning Before the Vows" on prenuptial agreements, and co-authored the chapter on Premarital Agreements in the 2009 addition of A Practical Guide to Divorce in Rhode Island, MCLE NE.

Jerry is a past president of the Jamestown, Rhode Island town council, served as Vice Chair of the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority and formerly sat on the Rhode Island Commission of Judicial Tenure and Discipline. He is a past Commodore of the Conanicut Yacht Club, a past President of the Dumplings Association, has served on both the Charter Review Commission and the Commission for Acquisition of Farm/Open Space for the Town of Jamestown.