ABOUT US

Richard A. Mac Bride graduated from the Law School of the University of California, Berkeley in 1998. He also obtained the Masters Degree in Business Administration (M.B.A.) of the University of California at the same time.

He is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Prior to obtaining his law degree in 1998, Richard A. Mac Bride worked as a certified Spanish interpreter in the Federal Court in Sacramento, California and in the California state courts throughout Northern California.

Richard worked from 1998 to 2003 as an associate at the Law Offices of Graham & James in San Francisco, California. (Graham and James merged in 2002 with the Law Offices of Squire Sanders & Dempsey.)

In 2003, Richard Mac Bride opened his own law firm, the Law Offices of Richard A. Mac Bride, in Richmond, California. Since then, he has handled hundreds of civil lawsuits and criminal cases in the state and federal courts.

From 2013 to 2016, he was the general legal counsel for the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce.

For the last twenty years, Richard has assisted Professor William Kell with the New Business Counseling Practicum class at the U.C. Berkeley Law School, his alma mater.

Richard has also been an honorific collaborating professor at the Department of Philosophy of Law and International Private Law of the University of Alicante, Spain, and director of the UAIPIT Project (University of Alicante Intellectual Property and Information Technology).

Richard has given dozens of conferences and classes on immigration, mediation, and civil rights at the University of Alicante in Spain. He is a collaborating professor for the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of Alicante, Spain. He has participated as a speaker in various international seminars on mediation that were organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in Spain, Colombia, and Mexico. He has participated in various post-graduate courses in Europe and America.

Richard is an accredited mediator for the Superior Court of the County of Contra Costa, California.

Practice areas:

Civil litigation

Civil rights (Americans with Disabilities Act)

Business law

Immigration

Landlord-Tenant

Living trusts and Wills

Mediation (civil, commercial and international)