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H. Richmond Fisher

H. Richmond “Rich” Fisher is a member of the Pacific Coast Litigation Group at Welsh, Wales & Fry PLC. He contributes to the firm’s success with more than twenty years of litigation and ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) experience.

Rich served as the first federal judicial law clerk to U.S. District Court Chief Judge and FBI Director William S. Session, as Legal Counsel to the Solicitor of the National Labor Relations Board, and as a Trial Attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. In this position, Rich represented the Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal court litigation.

Rich has represented insurance companies, government agencies, and individuals during twenty years in the private practice of law in Phoenix, Arizona, and Seattle, Washington. He has represented parties in complex civil litigation and multi-district litigation cases.

Rich has provided ADR services to public agencies and businesses for more than twenty years. These services include more than six hundred Partnering Sessions, more than once, helping construction project teams complete large public works and military construction projects on schedule and on budget.

As a mediator, Rich is certified by the Washington Mediation Association in business, construction, international, organizational, and public policy mediation. He has provided mediation services to public agencies and businesses for more than twenty years. Rich has written two books and designed several training programs on innovative mediation processes.

Rich has experience in civil rights litigation. The case is DM v. O’Leary, No. 2:13-cv-971 (U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, 2013). The case was depicted in the 2019 award-winning Netflix film series entitled “Unbelievable.” The case also inspired Pulitzer Prize award-winning journalism that improved the way police departments nationwide investigate crimes of sexual assault. National Public Radio broadcast a podcast based on the case entitled “Anatomy of Doubt” in February 2017, and the journalists published a book about the case