Richard E. Wirick

Richard E. Wirick is a Partner in the Firm’s Los Angeles Office in the Litigation Department. With extensive experience in insurance coverage and opinion work, he advises insurers on complex coverage disputes involving first- and third-party policies. He has represented major industry carriers in high-exposure cases, providing strategic guidance on underwriting, drafting policy forms, and navigating declaratory relief actions and ADR proceedings.

Mr. Wirick has decades of experience counseling insurers and reinsurers, as well as defending professionals—including attorneys, accountants, and insurance brokers—in liability matters. His practice also includes representing municipalities in labor and employment disputes.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Wirick has advised a diverse range of clients, including casualty and property insurers, HMOs and PPOs, life insurers, reinsurers, rating bureaus, offshore captive insurers, and alternative market entities.

Before earning his law degree from the University of California at Davis, Mr. Wirick trained as a journalist at The New York Times. He continues to write on social and cultural issues for publications in the U.S., U.K., and Canada. Additionally, he serves as the book critic for the Los Angeles Daily Journal and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

Admissions & Associations

State Bar of California

California State Courts

U.S. District Court, Central District of California

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California