David A. Richter
David A. Richter is a founding partner of RICHTER JONES. He approaches advocacy with intensity, curiosity, and pragmatic imagination. His experience in civil litigation includes disputes involving business relationships, employment, construction defects, civil rights, and professional liability.
Biography
David has represented local businesses, national companies, technology startups, public entities, and individuals. Before founding Richter Jones Law, he served as of counsel at Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, where he defended institutional and individual health care providers in medical malpractice litigation. His earlier work included representing public entities in federal court in matters involving civil rights, employment, education, and disability law. This varied experience has given him an appreciation for the practical concerns behind legal disputes and the different responsibilities his clients carry.
David earned his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Davis School of Law and his undergraduate degree in politics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He also studied Arabic at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and has performed transactional work for Spanish-speaking and German-speaking clients.
Outside his legal practice, David pursues interests in philosophy, logic, and theoretical linguistics. He is currently writing A Perfect Means: A Speculative Reconstruction in Peirce’s Logic of Relatives, an article examining Charles Sanders Peirce’s reasoning about continuity, possibility, and mathematical proof.