Richard De Palma

Richard is a partner in the firm's Business Litigation, Construction and International practice groups and based in New York. He also sits on the firm's International and Legal Project Management steering committees.

Richard is a trial lawyer, commercial litigator, arbitration practitioner and business/risk counselor with more than 30 years' experience practicing law on an international platform.

Richard focuses his practice on the trial and hearing of civil cases. He has particular experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants in large-exposure cases where coordination of multiple venues is involved and preliminary relief is sought.

Richard has handled a broad range of disputes, primarily concentrated in complex domestic and international commercial, construction, banking, partnership, professional liability, insurance, trust and general litigation/arbitration matters. He represents clients in diverse industries, including accounting, information technology, domestic and international banking, financial services, insurance, manufacturing, food production and distribution, heavy civil construction, health care, cosmetics, aviation, offshore oil, natural resource/energy and mining.

Pace University School of Law

J.D.

1991

Mercy College

B.S.

1988