Rich Goetz chairs the firmwide Class Actions, Mass Torts and Insurance Litigation Practice, which Chambers USA has named a “Leading Practice” for eight consecutive years. Rich defends some of the world’s best-known companies—pharmaceutical, medical device, computer, insurance, consumer products, food—in complex, multimillion-dollar legal challenges. Both at the pleadings stage and at trial, he has defeated allegations of negligence, false advertising, improper labeling, defective manufacturing, and personal injury. For his products liability work, Benchmark Litigation calls him a national “Litigation Star.” For his insurance practice, The Legal 500: United States and Chambers USA recognize him as a “Leading Lawyer.”

Rich teaches class action issues at Rutter Group conferences each year in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He has spoken on California’s unfair-competition laws at Mealey’s litigation conferences and has served on the faculty for the ABA’s annual National Institute on Class Actions. He has lectured at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and at Harvard Law School.

From 2000 to 2010, he led the Litigation Group for O’Melveny’s Los Angeles office; in that time, the firm either won, placed, or received honorable mention in every staging of The American Lawyer’s “Litigation Department of the Year” competition.