Richard Arnold

Practice Areas

Antitrust Practice

Complex Business Litigation

Career

Richard Alan Arnold is a nationally recognized trial lawyer focused on complex litigation, including antitrust cases for plaintiffs and defendants.

During his more than 30 years of practice, Richard has handled numerous individual plaintiff antitrust cases as opposed to class actions or mass actions. He also has represented opt-out plaintiffs in many civil antitrust cases that have proceeded parallel to or following the U.S. government’s criminal prosecution of international cartels. In addition to antitrust cases, Richard has played an active role in all of the firm’s cases involving the electronic payments industry.

Richard’s clients include public companies, entrepreneurial individuals, and privately held companies from a wide variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, vitamins, telecommunications, consumable commodities, banking, automotive, health care, and airlines.

Richard has been lead counsel in antitrust cases representing as plaintiffs an international tire manufacturer, the nation’s eighth largest vitamin manufacturer, major national retail pharmacy chains, major national retail grocery chains, chemical and plastic manufacturers, and international consumer products companies, resulting in gross individual non-class action recoveries of nearly $4 billion.

He has served as a special assistant attorney general in several states, both as prosecutor and as counsel, and formerly chaired the Ad Hoc Committee on Rules and Procedures of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Richard has written and lectured extensively on antitrust topics, including implied rights of action under the antitrust laws.

Before joining the firm, Richard clerked for the Honorable William E. Miller of the U.S. Circuit Court for the Sixth Circuit.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association

- Antitrust Section

- Litigation Section

The American Law Institute

The Florida Bar

- Business Law Section

- Trial Lawyers Section

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

- Advisory Committee

- Past Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Rules and Procedures

Personal

Admissions:

Florida

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Education

Awards

Experience

Special Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust, State of Florida, 1982–1985, 1987–1989