Richard H. Friedman
Rick Friedman built his reputation representing regular
people and small businesses injured by large corporations. He has won large verdicts in
difficult cases in the fields of personal injury,
defamation, insurance bad faith, and business torts.
Rick started his career in a small town in Alaska as a
lawyer with no staff, where he developed a love for studying
the books and transcripts of great trial lawyers. He built
his career representing the poor, the injured, and the
mistreated, sharing with jurors the truth about their
injuries and what caused them. His trial method is simply to
present the facts to the jury in a truthful way and to effectively counter
defense tactics to distort the truth. He has developed
methods for clearly showing jurors how defendants have
broken the rules which protect all of us. Lawyers all over
the country now ask him for help in trying their cases.
Among his landmark cases are Myrick v. Mastagni,
believed to be the first case in California holding a
building owner liable for personal injuries sustained in a
earthquake, and Robinson v. State Farm, a case which
exposed an insurance company's practice of using phony
doctor's reports to deny claims. Three of his verdicts have
ranked in the top ten largest verdicts in the United States.
See our
verdicts and
news pages for more details.
Rick handles a variety of cases, including catastrophic
personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice,
insurance bad faith, and business torts. He is a member of
the
Inner Circle of Advocates, an invitation-only group that
limits its membership to 100 of the leading trial lawyers in
the country. He is also a member of the
International
Academy of Trial Lawyers.
Rick is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the author
of three best selling legal books: Rules of the Road,
Polarizing the Case, and Rick Friedman on Becoming a Trial
Lawyer. These books have revolutionized how thousands of
lawyers try their cases.
Rick is licensed to practice in
Alaska, Washington and California, but also regularly
appears pro hac vice in other state and federal
courts around the country. In California, Rick is
of counsel to
Shernoff, Bidart, Echeverria LLP,
California's leading insurance bad faith law firm.
Rick's upcoming speaking engagements can be found by
clicking the following link:
Speaking Schedule. Information regarding Rick's
upcoming jury trials can be found by clicking the following
link:
Upcoming Trials. |
