Whether the matter sits in the Traffic Tribunal, the District Court, or both at once — like a DUI and its companion refusal — RI Defense Pro handles it all: every date, every filing, every follow-up, from the first call to the closed file. Open a case from whatever's in front of you — a photographed summons, a screenshot, a PDF, the court portal, or straight manual entry — and the file builds itself: the fee agreement out for signature, filings drafted and addressed to the right clerk, your week in court laid out the moment you sign in, and the discovery still waiting on an answer flagged before it slips.
This isn't a general practice tool with a Rhode Island label. Every part of it answers to how these cases actually run here — because the miss that a general tool shrugs off is, in this work, your client's liberty. It handles the filings, the routing, and the dates. The defense is still yours.
When a case carries a Traffic Tribunal docket — a DUI, or a charge with companion traffic tickets — the criminal case in District Court and the Traffic Tribunal case move on separate tracks, each with its own filings and dates to keep straight. RI Defense Pro even generates the motion that asks the Tribunal to continue the arraignment while the District Court charge is resolved.
Arraignments, pretrial dates, hardship timing, a discovery response that never came. A date that slips off your calendar isn't a clerical problem — it's your client's problem.
Discovery goes to the arresting department; the appearance goes to the division clerk. Send it to the wrong office and the filing is wasted.
RI Defense Pro holds all of it in one place and produces the right document, addressed to the right office, every time you ask — so less of the file rides on memory, and more of it rides on a system built for exactly this.
No hunting through files to remember what Monday holds. RI Defense Pro opens on a command center built from your own schedule and cases — so the first thing you see is exactly where you need to be, and the one thing that's quietly overdue.
Every appearance in the next seven days, grouped by day and sorted by time — client, court, courtroom, and hearing type, with the drive time to each courthouse from where you are right now. Each one carries a one-tap “ready” email to that courtroom's clerk, so you can clear a whole morning without typing an address.
The work that's easy to lose between a hundred other things, surfaced on its own. Today that's the discovery still waiting on a response — flagged the moment it's been out too long, with one tap to mark it received.
Active cases, appearances this week, trials on the horizon — the shape of your whole docket in three numbers, next to quick actions to open a case, add a hearing, or import a schedule.
It's the difference between opening the app and wondering what you're missing — and opening it and already knowing.
It's the kind of thing that goes quiet without anyone deciding to let it. You send the Motion for Discovery, the week fills up, and nobody ever circles back. RI Defense Pro won't let that be the version of events.
How the follow-up works
On your “Needs your attention” panel:
8 days since the Motion for Discovery went out for State v. Cole. Check whether it's come in.
Generic software doesn't know who prosecutes a DUI in Rhode Island. RI Defense Pro does. One click turns the case you already entered into a finished court document and an email draft — addressed, written, and attached. Here's exactly what lands in your inbox (Gmail or Outlook) for the two filings that open a case:
One click on “Entry of Appearance → Clerk” produces:
And “Motion for Discovery → Police” produces:
Addressed to the District Court clerk for that case's division — 2nd (Newport County), 3rd (Kent County), 4th (Washington County), or 6th (Providence County) — picked automatically from the courthouse on the case.
Addressed to the arresting city or town police department's own email — Cranston, Warwick, Newport, and the rest — or to the Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General when the State Police made the arrest.
Prefer the court's own paperwork? Flip one switch in Settings and your entries generate on the judiciary's official fillable forms — RITT-2 for the Traffic Tribunal, CC-CR-5 for the District Court — with the certificate of service already completed for e-filing. And when a Traffic Tribunal arraignment comes up while the companion District Court charge is still pending, one tap produces Defendant's Motion for Continuance on the official CC-23, captioned and ready to file.
Follow a single matter through RI Defense Pro. Every step below is administrative work the software handles for you — so your time goes to the defense, not the filing.
However the case reaches you, it goes in on the spot: photograph the paper summons in the hallway, forward a screenshot, drop in a PDF — including a scan from a scanner app or the document you saved from the court's public portal — or type it in with charge lists built for both courts. RI Defense Pro reads the charges, case numbers, division, and court dates straight off the document. Opened one in a hurry without the paperwork? Add the photo or PDF onto the case later and it backfills the real charges and numbers — no re-typing.
Upload your firm letterhead once and every fee agreement generates on it. Send it to the client for e-signature, or sign in person on your iPad. When it's signed, the case marks itself retained.
One click each builds the Entry of Appearance and the Motion for Discovery from the case data, then drops an email draft — addressed to the division clerk and the arresting department — with the PDF attached, ready for you to review and send. (That's the example shown above.) Prefer the court's own paperwork? Your entries can generate on the judiciary's official forms instead — RITT-2 and CC-CR-5, certificate of service completed. The day you mark the motion sent, the follow-up clock starts.
The companion traffic violations get called for arraignment at the Tribunal while the District Court charge is still pending — that's just the timing of the two courts. One tap generates Defendant's Motion for Continuance on the judiciary's official CC-23, asking the Tribunal to continue the arraignment while the companion District Court charge is resolved — captioned from the case, the standard grounds already written and yours to edit, the certificate of service completed. Pick the summons, review the reason, and it's ready to file.
Send the client the hardship questionnaire. Their answers come back and become a court-ready affidavit for the Traffic Tribunal, with drafting assistance — saved to the case and ready for your review before anything leaves your hands.
Email the client straight from the case — the message opens already written, with your next court date, on your signature and confidentiality footer. Attach a report or photo (up to 25 MB, larger files as a private Drive link), then send it through your own Gmail or Outlook, or save it as a draft. No more “when is my date again?” calls going unanswered.
Every document and case note is saved automatically to that case's own folder in your own Google Drive — or Microsoft OneDrive. And anything on paper goes in from your phone: scan an interlock certificate, correspondence, or a full discovery packet — thirty pages, page after page — named and filed as a PDF in the right folder. Your files stay in your account, organized without a thought.
The dashboard pulls it all together: the week's appearances, the discovery still waiting, the fee and payment plan, and what's been drafted, emailed, filed, and paid — on one case or across every active and closed matter.
Rhode Island hands you a courtroom calendar as a PDF or a printout — every defendant on the docket, not just yours. Drop it in and RI Defense Pro pulls out your appearances, merges the duplicates listed across several summonses, and hands them back as a clean, working schedule that feeds your dashboard.
It reads every hearing — client, date, courtroom, and hearing type — and collapses the same appearance heard on several summonses into one line, matched to the right case even when it carries a fistful of ticket numbers. Routine call types you rarely calendar start unchecked, so only what matters is in front of you.
Pick the hearings you want and publish them to a private calendar feed that's yours alone. Subscribe on your phone, in Outlook, or in Google Calendar, and the dates you add later show up there automatically.
For any hearing, draft the ready-for-trial email to that courtroom's clerk — already addressed from the built-in clerk directory. Clear a whole morning's calendar, grouped by clerk, without typing a single address.
One place for every date you're due in court — so the calendar works for you, instead of you working the calendar.
RI Defense Pro installs straight from the browser to your home screen — no app store, nothing to update, always the current version. Court doesn't happen at your desk, and neither does this.
iPhone or Android, iPad or desktop — one account, the same file everywhere you open it.
No tiers, no add-ons, no features held back for a higher price. Every account gets all of it.
RI Defense Pro works with your own account — Google Drive and Gmail, or Microsoft OneDrive and Outlook — so your case files live where you already keep your work. Pick the one your firm uses; personal Microsoft accounts work too. You connect once and can disconnect anytime.
It requests the narrowest access that makes these features possible, and nothing more. Exactly what it touches, and what it never can, is spelled out in the Privacy Policy.
“I built RI Defense Pro inside my own practice, because no general tool knew which clerk, which department, or which deadline a Rhode Island case actually runs on. So I made the one that does.”Thomas C. Thomasian, Esq. — The Law Office of Thomas C. Thomasian, LLC · Providence, Rhode Island
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