RICK RICHMOND, Managing Partner, Los Angeles Publications · Professional Activities Los Angeles Office Office: (213) 239-5151 Fax: (213) 239-5161 Email: rrichmond@jenner.com  Add to Outlook Contacts

Rick Richmond is the Managing Partner of Jenner & Block’s Los Angeles office and a partner in the Firm's Litigation Department.  He is a member of the Complex Commercial Litigation and Class Action Practices.  Mr. Richmond serves on the Firm's Management and Marketing and Business Development Committees.

Mr. Richmond is a trial and appellate lawyer and client counselor with 23 years of experience in state and federal courts, in federal and local administrative proceedings, and before AAA and other arbitration panels.  He has tried 21 cases and handled numerous TRO and injunction proceedings in venues across the country, including in California, Arizona, Washington, New York, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, and Louisiana.

Mr. Richmond has also argued 17 appeals in the California Court of Appeals, the Arizona Court of Appeals, and in seven different United States Courts of Appeals.  Mr. Richmond's areas of practice include class actions, contracts, fraud, insurance and financial services, securities, employment and labor relations, intellectual property, construction defect, environmental, and toxic tort matters.  Mr. Richmond has repeatedly been recognized by Southern California Super Lawyers in its Business Litigation category since 2005.

Prior to joining Jenner & Block, Mr. Richmond was a partner in the Los Angeles office of Kirkland & Ellis.  From 1987-89, he served as an appellate attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division.  He was a Law Clerk to the Honorable Harlington Wood, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and he also was a Research Assistant for the book The Supreme Court, authored by then-Justice William H. Rehnquist.

Mr. Richmond is currently a director of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, a director of the Los Angeles Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and Vice Chairman of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation.  Mr. Richmond was previously the President of the George Washington Law Alumni Association.

Mr. Richmond is a 1986 honors graduate of the George Washington University Law School, where he was the Senior Managing Editor of the George Washington Law Review as well as the President of The Federalist Society.  He is a cum laude graduate of Brigham Young University.  He is a member of the bars of California, Colorado, District of Columbia (inactive), Illinois (inactive), and Massachusetts (inactive) and is admitted to practice before numerous state and federal courts.

Representative Presentations:

• Panel Moderator, Debates on International Arbitration, California State Bar (2007).
• Panel Moderator, Issues in International Arbitration, California State Bar (2006).
• Guest Lecturer, Complex Civil Litigation, Pepperdine Law School (2002, 2004).
• Guest Lecturer, Trial Practice, Pepperdine Law School (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003).
• Guest Lecturer, Appellate Advocacy, Georgetown Law School (1995).
• Moot Court Judge, George Mason Law School (1991, 1993, 1995).