Richard R. Johnson concentrates on litigation of complex insurance coverage disputes, involving various types of insurance policies, including directors’ & officers’ liability policies, professional errors and omissions policies, fiduciary liability policies, financial services liability policies, insurance services liability policies, employment practices liability policies and employment-related discrimination coverages. Mr. Johnson also focuses on securities-related litigation, including the monitoring of securities class actions and shareholder derivative lawsuits, S.E.C. enforcement actions, complex business disputes and civil actions involving auditors and accountants.

Memberships

Vice Chair, Professionals' Officers' & Directors' Liability Committee of the Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, American Bar Association;

Vice Chair, American Bar Association Task Force on Corporate Governance;

Member, Professional Liability Underwriting Society

Activities

Editor, Beyond Legal: A Business Approach to Corporate Governance, ABA Publications (forthcoming);

Co-author, Stock Option Backdating: Causes and Consequences, ABA TortSource, Summer 2007;

Co-author, "The Origins and Consequences of the Stock-Option Backdating Scandal," Beyond Legal: A Business Approach to Corporate Governance (ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section Course Materials), May 2007;

Author, On Guard: In Light of Massive Corporate Accounting Fraud Scandals, D&O Insurers Are Paying Increasing Attention to Their Rescission Options, Daily Journal Extra, May 31, 2005;

Admitted to Practice

State Courts:

All California Courts, 1998

United States Courts of Appeals:

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1998

U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 2007

United States District Courts:

Central District of California, 1998

Northern District of California, 2001

Eastern District of California, 2001

Southern District of California, 2001

Western District of Washington, 2005 (pro hac vice)

District of Connecticut, 2007 (pro hac vice)

District of Arizona, 2007 (pro hac vice)

Southern District of Texas, 2009 (pro hac vice)

Western District of Texas, 2009 (pro hac vice)

Education

J.D., University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, 1998

B.A., St. John's College, 1991