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Attorney Morgan Alger is an associate attorney at Marin & Murphy Law Firm, admitted to the Rhode Island Bar in 2024 (Bar #10896). Before joining the firm, she served as a staff attorney at Rhode Island Legal Services' Housing Law Center, representing low-income residents in contested eviction proceedings. During law school at Roger Williams University School of Law, she completed two Rule 9 internships inside the Rhode Island Attorney General's Office — working with both the Special Victims Unit and the Narcotics & Violent Crime Unit — served as an ABA Police Practices Consortium Fellow, and reached the Finals of the Esther Clark Moot Court Competition, arguing before the justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. She holds a J.D. and M.S. in Criminal Justice from Roger Williams University and a B.S. from the University of Rhode Island.
Attorney Morgan Alger's path to criminal defense is rooted in two distinct and reinforcing perspectives: the view from inside the prosecutor's office, and the view from the client's chair at a nonprofit legal aid organization. Few newly admitted Rhode Island attorneys arrive at their first firm with experience on both sides of the courtroom table before they've handled their first private case.
During law school at Roger Williams University School of Law, she completed two Rule 9 internships at the Rhode Island Attorney General's Office — first with the Special Victims Unit, then with the Narcotics and Violent Crime Unit. Rule 9 of the Rhode Island Supreme Court Rules authorizes supervised law students to appear and practice before Rhode Island courts; Attorney Alger exercised that authorization representing the State in active prosecutions. She understands how prosecutors build their cases because she helped build them.
That prosecution background is complemented by her work at the Housing Law Center at Rhode Island Legal Services, where she served as a staff attorney representing low-income Rhode Islanders in contested courtroom eviction proceedings — work featured in Providence Business News (February 2025).
She also brings a pre-law career as a FINRA-registered securities representative at J.P. Morgan Securities and Santander Securities in Rhode Island — giving her a firsthand understanding of what criminal charges mean for licensed professionals and their careers.
At Marin & Murphy, she represents clients in first-offense DUI cases, domestic violence charges, contested traffic violations, drug possession offenses, and expungement petitions — backed by a firm that has defended more than 2,500 DUI cases and set two statewide constitutional precedents.
Most newly admitted attorneys bring either prosecution experience or public interest experience to their first private practice role. Attorney Alger brings both. Her two Rule 9 internships at the Rhode Island Attorney General's Office — SVU and Narcotics & Violent Crime — gave her direct experience representing the State in active prosecutions. She knows how prosecutors evaluate cases, what they look for in evidence, and where constitutional vulnerabilities develop in the kinds of cases she now defends.
Her work at Rhode Island Legal Services deepened her understanding of what charges actually do to real people's lives — the professional consequences, the cascading effects a legal outcome sets in motion. That combination of prosecution-side training and public interest advocacy means she comes to every client with both the technical skills and the human awareness that effective criminal defense requires.
Attorney Alger holds dual graduate degrees from Roger Williams University — a Juris Doctor and a Master of Science in Criminal Justice — providing both legal training and deep grounding in criminal justice systems, law enforcement, and constitutional law.
In 2022, Attorney Alger was selected as a Finalist in the Esther Clark Moot Court Competition — the most prestigious appellate advocacy competition at Roger Williams University School of Law. The Esther Clark Competition requires participants to research and argue complex legal issues before a panel of sitting Rhode Island judges, including justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
Reaching the Finals requires both exceptional written brief-writing and the ability to argue persuasively under intensive judicial questioning — exactly the skills required in suppression hearings, motions practice, and appellate proceedings.
Attorney Alger is licensed to practice in Rhode Island and admitted before all Rhode Island state courts, including District Court, Superior Court, and the Rhode Island Traffic Tribunal.
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When the stakes are your freedom, your record, and your future, you need attorneys who know Rhode Island’s courts — and bring focused federal defense experience to every case. Marin & Murphy Law Firm has been serving Rhode Island since 2008. 451 five-star Google reviews as of September 2026. Attorneys admitted in Rhode Island and the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island.
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