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About Richard Brown
Richard E. Brown is Of Counsel at Herrmann Law Group, where he has worked closely with Charles Herrmann on major aviation disaster cases for decades and is widely regarded as a leading expert in aviation litigation. Early in his career he was at Stark, Stewart, Simon & Sparrow in Oakland while attending law school, then joined Melvin M. Belli's firm in 1982 and eventually became managing partner of Belli, Belli, Brown. He currently also serves as CEO of the Law Offices of Richard E. Brown.
Beyond aviation law, he has represented victims of mass torts including the 1980 MGM Grand fire, Bendectin birth-defect cases, and the 1985 Dupont Plaza Hotel arson in San Juan. He has conducted civil discovery across Africa, Germany, Korea, Australia, Canada, Fiji, Pakistan, and the Middle East. He is a former Command Staff Lieutenant with the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Search & Rescue Team and a licensed EMT.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Herrmann Law Group
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Lara Herrmann secured an $8.25 million mid-trial settlement for four victims of the 2015 Aurora Bridge duck-boat collision, including $7 million for the family of an 18-year-old student killed in the crash.
A King County jury awarded $1,482,200 to four University of Washington marching-band members who were injured when their charter bus rolled onto its side on icy Interstate 90 en route to the 2018 Apple Cup.
Seattle's Herrmann Law Group secured confidential Boeing settlements for families of victims killed in the October 2018 Lion Air 737 MAX crash, ultimately resolving cases for all 46 families the firm represented.
Charles Herrmann represented families of KAL Flight 007 victims through a decade of litigation that produced a jury finding of willful misconduct and a $50 million punitive award and, after the punitive damages were vacated on appeal, individual recoveries the firm reports exceeded $26 million in total.
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