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Practice Areas:

• Personal Injury
• Auto Accidents
• Bicycle Accidents
• Birth Injuries
• Brain Injuries
• Burn Injuries
• Childhood Sexual Assault
• Insurance Law
• Motorcycle Accidents
• Product Liability
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Truck Accidents
• Wrongful Death

Biography

Richard Alexander is the Managing Partner of the Alexander Law Group, LLP. He is a nationally recognized personal injury lawyer and consumer protection advocate.  Richard has decades of in-depth legal expertise in representing families in wrongful death lawsuits and survivors of traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and serious injuries resulting from a wide variety of defective products, toxic chemicals, car, truck, motorcycle and SUV accidents.  He has achieved an exceptional record of success on behalf of his clients.

Richard earned a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University and membership in Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society.  He was awarded a full-tuition National Honor Scholarship to the prestigious University of Chicago Law School, where he earned his law degree.

Richard has dedicated his career to the underdog.  He is a highly respected advocate for the survivors of injuries and deaths and year after year his superior results have been recognized by his peers and applauded by clients.

Outstanding Credentials Benefiting ALG Clients

• Rated 10/10 “superb” by Avvo.com an independent review
• Rated 5.0/5.0  AV “Preeminent” evaluation by Martindale-Hubbell
• Best Lawyers – national recognition
• National Recognition New York Times Power Lawyers of Distinction
• Esteemed Lawyers of America, a peer selected honor
• U.S. News Best Law Firms in the United States
• Top 100 California Lawyers, American Trial Lawyers Association 
• Northern California “Super Lawyer”
• Street Fighter of the Year statewide twice honored nominee
• Leading Lawyer,  San Jose Magazine
• Million Dollar Advocates Forum Roundtable
• Recognized Trial Lawyer by Consumer Attorneys of California
• Santa Clara County Trial Lawyer of the Year
• First “Man of the Year” by The Women’s Fund
• Distinguished Humanitarian Award, Bnai Zion Foundation
• Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition Award for Community Service
• Santa Clara School of Law Community Law Center Award
• Pro Bono Award Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety
• Santa Clara County Youth Commission Medal
• Who’s Who in California
• Who’s Who in American Law
• First molested child verdict in Santa Clara County 1984
• Served as President Santa Clara County Bar Association
• Served as Governor The State Bar of California
• Founding Officer California Attorneys for Criminal Justice
• Served as Governor and Vice President California Consumer Attorneys
• Owens-Illinois Scholar, Ohio Wesleyan University
• National Honor Scholar, The Law School, University of Chicago
• Author of 1,300 articles and blogs, including 5 peer reviewed law review articles.

Representative Results* By Alexander Law Group – Respected by Defendants

$79,860,000 trial verdict for defective surgical stapler. Largest defective product verdict in California.
$28,000,000 judgment for child abuse.
$2,250,000 recovery for an intoxicated bicyclist whose arm was crushed by a VTA bus.
$1,150,000 recovery against county for a dangerous sidewalk causing disabling fractured arm
$1,050,000 trial verdict compression fracture suffered by HVAC journeyman
$2,100,000 trial verdict fractured arm and shoulder parking lot hazard at Denny’s Restaurant
$7,500,000 recovery for seniors crushed by VTA bus
$3,000,000 for multiple fractures by a pedestrian struck by a truck
$1,000,700 trial verdict defective ladder caused lumbar compression fracture
$6,625,000 high-voltage catastrophic burns caused by failure to maintain powerline right-of-way
$1,900,000 severe fractures cervical vertebrae C4-5 and C5-6 defective car seat
$1,225,000 fractures caused by truck smashing a stalled car
$1,200,000 fall injuries defective train boarding ramp
$1,000,000 neck fractures caused by a commercial gym’s dangerous foam pit
$1,100,000 mild traumatic brain injury caused by collision
$10,000,000 confidential recovery for a defective fuel system causing lifetime scars and a teenage death
$8,300,000 for death and severe crush injuries caused by a teenager with a $15,000 policy.
$10,100,000 trial judgment for child found 66% at fault running into street; $50,000 insurance policy.
$8,132,000 jury verdict for brain injury caused by a big rig
$11,000,000. C-6 quadriplegia recoveries against dairy truck
$4,000,000 police brutality; shotgun face wound
$1,800,000 head injury in rollover near Santa Fe, New Mexico
$15,500,000 electrical burn injuries
$5,200,000 severe facial and orthopedic injuries defective Route 17 intersection
$4,250,000 birth defects caused by mother’s exposure to chemicals at work
$4,500,000 L-1 paraplegic motorcycle crash; $30,000 insurance policy
$2,570,259 fire damage caused by Caltrans
$8,500,000 triple amputation suffered by trespassing teen in Washington, D.C.
$1,750,000 foot amputation for bicyclist crossing Highway 1 at night
$1,500,000 wrongful death caused by defective tire and rollover New Mexico
$3,500,000 spinal cord injury caused by rollover
$3,200,000 death of a Las Vegas student caused by defective tire and rollover
$2,650,000 amputation recovery
$5,000,000. C-7 quadriplegia freeway rollover in Multnomah County, Oregon
$2,300,000 wrong death recovery against drunk driver.
$1,450,000 adoption fraud recovery against San Mateo County
$1,650,000 in wrongful adoption recoveries against Tulare County
$1,800,000 for birth defects from exposure to solvents during pregnancy
$1,182,292 jury verdict for theft by warehouse owners
$200,000,000 first U.S. “buy back” of defective Nissan minivans from 33,000 owners
$180,000,000 Richmond Sulfuric Acid Cloud chaired the Medical Causation Committee
$120,000,000 One of eight firms winning repair 3,300,000 Chrysler minivans hatch locks
$550,000,000 key executive committee lawyer against General Motors for 5,500,000 owners of defective 1973-87 C and K model pickups with saddlebag gas tanks in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
$2,000,000 property damage recovery for arsenic pollution in Sutter Creek
Confidential: 240 IBM workers and families for birth defects and cancer
Confidential: brutal asphyxiation murder by San Jose Police Department
Confidential: police gross negligence wrongful death Modesto Police Department.

*Not a guarantee of future outcomes, but evidence of the first-class work provided our clients.

Unmatched Highly Diversified Experience Collecting Against Major Defendants

IBM, Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, BMW, British Leyland, Nissan Motors, Honda, Johnson & Johnson, Ethicon Endo, Boys Scouts of America, Safeway, Albertsons, Denny’s, 7-Eleven, Pacific Gas & Electric, Idaho Power, Varco International, Marriott, Host Hotels & Resorts, General Electric, Conrail, Amtrak, British Leyland, Apple, Sears, Champion Papers, DAP, Werner Ladders, Owens-Illinois, Select Hotels Group,  Subway, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Amica Mutual Insurance, Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, Olin, XPO Logistics Trucking, Crestline Hotels & Resorts, Union Pacific Railroad, Westfield Corporation, Security Risk Management, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Southern Pacific Railroad, Pebble Beach Resorts, National Retail Properties, Triumph, CH2MHill, Dollinger Properties, Southern Pacific Railroad, B.F. Goodrich, Uniroyal, U.S. Plywood, Market Transport Trucking, Keller Industries, Firestone, DuPont, Shell Oil, Amoco, Chevron, Texaco, Dow Chemical, Allied Signal, Foremost Dairies, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Valley Transportation Authority, AC Transit, Denny’s Restaurants, Olin, Union Oil, Northstar Trucking Lines, United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, National Carbide, Consolidated Freight Way Trucking, Exxon Mobile, Bausch & Lomb, Nationwide Insurance, Allstate Insurance, Fluor Corporation, State of California, US government, Caltrans, multiple cities and counties. 

Nationwide Experience in 24 States

Have represented plaintiffs in state and federal courts in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia.