Richard John Grad

• Financial Institutions Litigation
• Trade Secret and Unfair Competition Litigation
• Patent Litigation
• Insurance/Financial Services Class Actions
• General Civil

• Financial Services/Consumer Class Actions
• Consumer Fraud/17200 Class Actions
• Consumer and Other Financial Services Litigation
• Complex Commercial Litigation
• Class Action and Multidistrict Litigation
• Bank/Financial Services Class Actions
• Antitrust and Unfair Competition

Arizona

California

California

Since 1985

California 1985

Illinois

Massachusetts

Massachusetts

Since 1983

Massachusetts 1983

New York

U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit 2006

U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit 2002

U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit

U.S. District Court, C.D. of California

U.S. District Court, District of Arizona

U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court, E.D. of California

U.S. District Court, E.D. of New York

U.S. District Court, N.D. of California

U.S. District Court, N.D. of Illinois - General

U.S. District Court, S.D. of California

U.S. Supreme Court

Partner

Sidley Austin LLP

Current

Northeastern University School of Law

J.D

1983

University of California-Los Angeles

B.A

1980

summa cum laude

Current

Activities: Member, American Bar Association, Litigation Section, Federal Civil Procedure Committee, the Federal Rules of Evidence Committee

Current

Activities: Member, American Bar Association, Commercial and Banking Litigation Committee

Current

Activities: Member, State Bar of California, Committee on State and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Current

Activities: Member, American Intellectual Property Law Association

Current

Activities: Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association

Current

Activities: Member, Association of Business Trial Lawyers