Richard Amada has practiced law since 2003, handling cases in vaccine injury law, contract law, intellectual property, copyright, trademark, First Amendment issues, Internet legal issues, False Claims Act fraud litigation, corporate compliance, predatory lending, and estate planning. He has lectured on law and the arts and authored An Artist’s Guide to the Law (Hackett Publishing, 2010).
Before joining the Law Offices of Leah V. Durant, Rich worked at other D.C. firms, including as a Team Leader of Special Project Attorneys at Williams & Connolly and as of-counsel to Andrew Grosso & Associates, where he worked on federal whistleblower cases.
He is a member of the bars of D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, as well as the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and several U.S. District Courts.
Rich graduated from the University of Arizona College of Law in 2002, where he worked in the Domestic Violence Law Clinic, interned for Tucson’s City Attorney’s Office, and served as Managing Editor of the Arizona Law Review.
A graduate of American University’s School of Communication, Rich began his career as an Emmy-winning TV news reporter before working as a communications specialist at the University of Arizona.
Rich is also an award-winning author of plays, musicals, novels, and short stories, and teaches dramatic writing at the Little Theatre of Alexandria.
