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Practice Areas: Plaintiff Bad Faith Breach of Insurance Contracts; Medical Malpractice; Plaintiff Personal Injury; Civil Litigation; Civil Rights Violations

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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 Rick's 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. Four of Rick's verdicts have ranked in the top ten largest verdicts in the United States. See our verdicts and news pages for 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 and current president 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 and the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Rick is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the author of four best selling legal books: Rules of the Road, Polarizing the Case, Becoming a Trial Lawyer and The Elements of Trial. These books have revolutionized how thousands of lawyers try their cases. Based on his record as a trial lawyer and author, in 2013, Rick was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Washington State Association for Justice.

Rick is licensed to practice in Alaska, Washington, California and Nevada, 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.