Richard B. "Rich" Goetz - Lawyer in Los Angeles, CA

400 South Hope Street, 18th Floor,
Los Angeles, CA 90071

Practice Areas

Insurance Law Los Angeles, CA Insurance Defense Los Angeles, CA Corporate and Insurance Defense Los Angeles, CA Insurance Defense Litigation Los Angeles, CA Insurance Benefits Termination Los Angeles, CA Mass Tort Litigation and Class Actions - Plaintiffs Los Angeles, CA Mass Tort Litigation Los Angeles, CA Litigation Los Angeles, CA Class Actions Los Angeles, CA Class Actions - Defendants Los Angeles, CA

About the lawyer

Richard B. "Rich" Goetz is an excellent lawyer from Los Angeles, CA. Attorney Richard B. "Rich" Goetz works in an office located at 400 South Hope Street, 18th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90071. Los Angeles lawyer Jared K. Miller will help you solve all issues in the following areas of law: Insurance Law, Insurance Defense, Corporate and Insurance Defense, Insurance Defense Litigation, Insurance Benefits Termination, Mass Tort Litigation and Class Actions - Plaintiffs, Mass Tort Litigation, Litigation, Class Actions, Class Actions - Defendants Los Angeles, CA. Richard B. "Rich" Goetz is the best lawyer in Los Angeles, California state!

Rich Goetz defends some of the worlds best-known businesses?including pharmaceutical, medical device, computer, insurance, consumer products, and food companies?in complex, multimillion-dollar legal challenges. At the pleadings stage and at trial, he has defeated allegations of negligence, false advertising, improper labeling, defective manufacturing, and personal injury. Benchmark Litigation calls him a national Litigation Star, The Legal 500: United States named him to its inaugural Hall of Fame in 2017 and recognizes him as a Leading Lawyer, and BTI has recognized him as a Client Service All-Star. Chambers USA ranks Rich in both Product Liability/Mass Torts and Insurance, noting his widespread experience handling mass torts and consumer class actions, and his skill in handling significant contentious insurance matters.

Rich is the Firmwide Co-Chair of OMelvenys Litigation Department and previously chaired the Firms Consumer Class Actions, Product Liability/Mass Torts, and Insurance Practices. He also serves on the Firms Executive Committee.

Richs clients include:

Johnson Johnson
Colgate-Palmolive
Chubb
Amylin Pharmaceuticals
AstraZeneca
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Kia Motors America

Rich is a contributing editor for Product Liability Litigation: Current Law, Strategies, and Best Practices (Practising Law Institute) and for the class action chapters of California Practice Guide: Civil Procedure Before Trial (The Rutter Group). He has lectured at the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science and at Harvard Law School, and is a member of the American Law Institute, which is responsible for formulating the Restatements of the Law and updating the Uniform Commercial Code and other model codes.

Rich has been an observer at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, proceedings against those charged with plotting the 9/11 attacks, and co-chairs a bipartisan task force that has recommended changes to those proceedings, some of which Congress has enacted. He chairs the Board of Directors of Volunteers of America of Los Angeles, one of Southern Californias largest providers of services to the homeless, at-risk youth, and others in need. He is on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of The Pacific Council on International Policy, a leading non-partisan foreign affairs organization. And he was a longtime member of the Los Angeles County Bar Judicial Appointments Committee, serving under both Republican and Democratic Governors.