Practices

• Business & Commercial Litigation
• Product, Tort & Insurance Litigation

Biography

Rick helps his clients achieve their strategic and corporate objectives. Whether he’s representing public entities – municipalities, public utilities, and the like – or private companies headquartered in and around southern California, he develops and executes effective solutions to legal issues that hinder their business success.

His work for public entities covers a broad range of commercial and business litigation, including in particular employment cases concerning racial, gender and age discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation, as well as general tort defense matters related to a number of issues. In addition, Rick regularly helps public entity owners resolve disputes involving construction management supervision, errors and omissions in plans or specifications, delays in issuing change orders, scope of work disputes, stop notices, termination and abandonment issues, and other related breach of contract claims.

For his private clients, Rick has acted as lead trial counsel in cases involving national and international commercial sales, real and personal property secured transactions, misappropriation of trade secrets, and unfair competition in both state and federal courts. His clients consider him an indispensable part of their success: he knows their business, he understands their risk profile, and he proposes – and delivers – solutions that line up with their short- and long-term goals.

Rick’s recent work includes successfully helping several financial institutions in both trial court and on appeal defend wrongful foreclosure, and breach of contract regarding loan modifications, fraud and related lender liability claims, predatory loan origination cases, and title insurance matters.