Maura J. Black

Maura is a Partner at Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick LTD in Providence, Rhode Island, where she specializes in representing disabled veterans and their families before the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Board of Veterans’ Appeals. Throughout her career, she has represented hundreds of veterans and their dependents in their pursuit of VA benefits before both the VA and the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. She has presented and organized numerous continuing legal education events that have focused on service-connected VA benefits and appeals, VA’s appeals reform legislation, and petitions for writs of mandamus at the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. In 2022, Maura served as a panelist during an Appeals Modernization Act presentation at the Fifteenth Judicial Conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.

Maura is an active member of the Federal Bar Association. She has served in leadership positions in the FBA’s Veterans and Military Law Section and Rhode Island Chapter. She is currently the chair of the Sections and Divisions Council and an ad hoc member of the FBA’s Government Relations Committee. In 2025, she earned the FBA’s President’s Award in recognition of outstanding leadership and dedication to the FBA and to advancing the legal profession.

Prior to joining CCK in 2016, Maura gained experience as an associate attorney in a civil litigation firm, a judicial law clerk in the Rhode Island Superior Court, a judicial intern in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, and an intern with both the Rhode Island Public Defender’s office and Rhode Island Legal Services. She is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. Maura earned her law degree from Roger Williams University School of Law in 2014, graduating magna cum laude. She was a member of the Roger Williams University Law Review, where she worked as an Articles Editor and published a case survey.

Maura spends her free time cooking, running, reading, spending time with her friends and family, and enjoying Rhode Island’s East Bay Bike Path.

BAR ADMISSIONS

State of Rhode Island
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island
U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

Professional Associations and Memberships

Federal Bar Association, Sections & Divisions Council, Chair
Foundation of the Federal Bar Association, Fellow
Federal Bar Association, Rhode Island Chapter, Board Member
Federal Bar Association, Veterans and Military Law Section, Member
Rhode Island Bar Association, Member