Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly has selected McIntyre Tate LLP as a 2026 In the Lead: Best Legacy Law Firm. It’s the second year in a row our Providence law firm has received the honor, and it comes as we mark more than three decades of serving clients across Rhode Island.
What the Best Legacy Law Firm recognition measures
Most legal awards look at a single case or a single year. In the Lead looks at something harder to build: staying power.
The Best Legacy Law Firms program from Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly recognizes firms with a sustained record of service and professional standing in the state’s legal community. It weighs reputation, longevity, and the kind of trust that only accumulates over decades. Less about one headline result, more about the track record underneath it.
That distinction matters. Any firm can have a strong year. Building a reputation in a state where the legal community is small enough that everyone knows everyone, and holding onto it for thirty years, is a different kind of accomplishment.
Three decades serving Rhode Island
Our attorneys bring more than 150 years of combined experience to the clients we serve. We appear regularly in every Rhode Island County court, including Providence, Kent, Washington, and Newport.
Our practice stays focused on two areas:
- Family law. Our Rhode Island family law attorneys handle divorce, child custody, child support, high net worth divorce, and premarital and cohabitation agreements. Five of our attorneys each have more than 25 years of family law experience, a depth few Rhode Island firms can match.
- Civil litigation. We represent businesses, executives, and individuals in business and commercial litigation, personal injury, insurance litigation, contract disputes, and professional malpractice claims.
If you’re facing a divorce, a custody dispute, or a business dispute in Rhode Island and you’re trying to decide who to trust with it, that track record is a reasonable place to start.
Part of a broader record of recognition
The In the Lead designation joins other honors our firm has earned, including rankings in Best Law Firms by Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers selections, and repeated inclusion in the 10 Best Attorneys listings.
We’re proud of the reputation we’ve built in the legal and local communities, and we work to maintain it with every case we take. You can learn more about the people behind it on our attorney profiles page, or read more about why clients hire us.
Frequently asked questions
What is the In the Lead: Best Legacy Law Firms recognition?
In the Lead: Best Legacy Law Firms is an annual program from Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly that recognizes Rhode Island law firms with a sustained record of service, professional standing, and longevity in the state’s legal community. It focuses on firms that have maintained their reputations over decades rather than on results from a single year.
How long has McIntyre Tate LLP been practicing in Rhode Island?
McIntyre Tate LLP has served clients throughout Rhode Island for more than 30 years. The firm’s attorneys have more than 150 years of combined legal experience.
What types of cases does McIntyre Tate LLP handle?
The firm concentrates on two areas: family law, including divorce, child custody, child support, and high net worth divorce; and civil litigation, including business and commercial litigation, personal injury, insurance litigation, and professional malpractice claims.
Where is McIntyre Tate LLP located?
The firm’s office is at 50 Park Row West, Suite 109, Providence, RI 02903. Our attorneys appear in all Rhode Island County courts, including Providence, Kent, Washington, and Newport.
To our clients, our colleagues in the Rhode Island bar, and the team at Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly: thank you. Thirty years happens one client at a time, and we don’t take that for granted.
If you have a matter you’d like to discuss, call our Rhode Island attorneys at (401) 351-7700 or schedule a confidential consultation.