The Bottaro Law Firm, LLC

Focus and practice areas

This is a personal injury practice, and it works on one side of the courtroom. The firm represents people who have been hurt, and it takes plaintiff cases only. Its work reaches across Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

Plaintiff only is worth pausing on. It means the firm acts for the person bringing the claim, not for the insurance company or the business on the other side. A practice that never switches sides tends to sit close to the injured client's position, and it does not carry the conflicts that come with mixed work.

The range within that focus is broad. On the road, the firm handles car, truck, motorcycle, bus, bicycle, and boat crashes. It also takes rideshare claims tied to Uber and Lyft, which have grown into their own kind of case as those services have spread.

Away from traffic, the list keeps going. The firm works on slip and fall and other premises claims, traumatic brain injury, nursing home abuse, dog bites, medical malpractice, and injuries caused by dangerous products. Wrongful death cases sit here too, for families who have lost someone.

A few matters fall outside the accident category. The firm handles workers' compensation, Social Security disability, and insurance disputes. In my opinion, that spread reads like a practice built to keep an injured client's related problems under one roof, rather than passing them along elsewhere.

How the firm began

Attorney Mike Bottaro started the firm in December 2010. He opened in a small office in Cranston, Rhode Island, and grew the practice from that base into the multi-office setup it lists today.

His route into the work is on the record. Before he launched the firm, he completed an appellate judicial clerkship. He then spent more than ten years being mentored by other lawyers before going out on his own.

Today he serves as the firm's founder and managing attorney, and his focus is personal injury cases. As a reviewer, I read that clerkship and long apprenticeship as a deliberate way into running a practice, not a rushed one.

How the team is described

The site names Mike Bottaro as the founding attorney and the person who manages the firm. His work is personal injury.

Two other team members appear by name. Dennis Cesana is listed as Chief Operating Officer, and Sara Dasilva as Director of Legal Support. Both titles point toward operations and client support rather than toward practicing law.

So the public picture is one named attorney backed by a business and support structure. In my opinion, a reader weighing the firm should hold on to that distinction, because the site itself makes it plain.

Where clients can reach the firm

The firm keeps more than one location. Offices are listed in Providence, Newport, North Smithfield, Warwick, Pawtucket, and East Providence in Rhode Island, with one more across the line in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Seven listed locations is a wide footprint for a firm of this size. It puts a local address within reach of many clients in the two states the firm serves, and it means a case does not have to route through a single downtown building.

Access does not stop at the office door. The firm says staff are available around the clock by phone, text, chat, or web form. It also says it will meet clients at home, in the hospital, or by video call when someone cannot travel.

That reach matters in injury work. A person with a serious injury often cannot get to a desk in a distant office. A firm that comes to them takes one worry off the pile at a hard moment.

Community work and public presence

The firm runs a program it calls the Ministry Care Team. Through it, the firm directs a share of its profits and some volunteer hours toward community and charitable work. That is the firm's own account of the effort, and it is worth noting as part of how the practice presents itself.

The firm also keeps a visible presence online. It links out to profiles on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube. For a prospective client, that gives more than one window into how the firm talks about its work.

The record here is steady and specific: a Rhode Island injury practice with a stated founding date, a named founder, a defined focus, and a set of offices across two states. In a directory built on evidence rather than advertising, that kind of plain, checkable detail is what earns a reader's attention.