Patricia K. Rocha

Patricia K. Rocha is senior counsel at Adler Pollock & Sheehan in Providence and Boston. The practice focuses on health care regulation and litigation, complex commercial disputes, investigations, employment matters, and appellate work. Rocha works with health care providers, businesses, and regulated organizations and handles matters requiring careful review of legal rights, obligations, documents, and procedural issues.

Rocha earned a J.D. from Boston College in 1982 and an A.B., with honors, from Brown University in 1979. This background supports careful legal analysis, research, and practical problem solving. The training helps with evaluating facts, identifying legal issues, communicating options clearly, and applying professional judgment to client matters.

Rocha brings practical experience to the representation. Her health care practice includes hospitals, long-term care providers, ambulatory surgery centers, community health centers, assisted living facilities, hospice, home health organizations, and physician practices. She represents clients before state and federal regulators and in civil and criminal investigations, while also handling major commercial and trial matters. The work may involve counseling, document preparation, negotiation, administrative advocacy, or litigation as the matter requires.

Patricia K. Rocha also brings professional experience beyond the core day-to-day practice. Her experience includes hospital conversion matters, Certificate of Need proceedings, antitrust defense, environmental litigation, and federal criminal trials. She is a fellow of major trial-law organizations and has received repeated recognition for health care and litigation work. The verified record reflects a practical, client-focused approach grounded in preparation, clear communication, and careful attention to legal details.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.
• Member, Rhode Island Bar Association
• Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
• Chair, Federal Court Bench Bar Committee (2009-2019)
• Chair, Federal Board of Bar Admissions for the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island (2005-2011)
• Chair, April, Rhode Island Supreme Court Committee on Character and Fitness (2007-2013)
• Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
• Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers
• Fellow, Rhode Island Bar Foundation
• Board of Overseers, Boston College Law School
• President, Rhode Island Chapter Boston College Law School Alumni Association
• Board of Visitors, National Judicial College
• Member, Rhode Island Supreme Court Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee (2016-2024)
• Member, 6, Rhode Island Commission on Judicial Tenure and Discipline (2009)
• Member, Federal Bar Association
• Member, The American Health Law Association
• Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
• Board of Directors, 6, Defense Counsel of Rhode Island (2005)
• Member, Defense Research Institute
• Business Associate, Rhode Island Health Care Association

Licensed State

• Rhode Island
• Massachusetts

Education

• Boston College
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Brown University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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