Richard is the First Assistant at the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Northern District of West Virginia. Richard joined the office in 2003 as an Assistant Federal Public Defender and then assumed the role of Senior Litigator. Previously, Richard worked in Miami, Florida, as an associate at the firm Black Srebnick, which specializes in the defense of complex criminal and civil cases. From 1998 to 2001, Richard served as an Assistant Public Defender for the Dade County Public Defender Office in Miami, Florida. Richard graduated from the Temple University School of Law in 1998 where he was the Editor-In-Chief of the Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review. In 1995, Richard earned a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. Richard has worked as an Adjunct Instructor at the West Virginia University College of Law and for almost a decade he coached law students on various trial teams there. Richard speaks Spanish.