Richard J. McNeil

rjm@reichradcliffe.com

Of Counsel

Education: University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

Rick McNeil was formerly a partner in the Environment and Natural Resources Group and the Commercial Litigation Group at Crowell & Moring. Rick was a trial attorney with numerous jury, bench, and administrative trials to his credit, particularly in the areas of environmental, land use, tort and product liability, real estate, and business litigation.

Rick was a member of the American Law Institute, where he contributed to the current revision of the Restatement of the Law, 4th, Property. He also was a member of the Litigation Section and the Environment, Energy and Resources Section of the American Bar Association and the Real Estate, Business Litigation, and Environmental Law Sections of the Orange County Bar Association. Rick was also appointed a member of the City of Newport Beach Water Quality and Coastal Tidelands Committee.Rick just completed a six-year term as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Orange County Bar Association while remaining the Co-Chair of the OCBA’s Diversity Committee. Rick also was a Member of the Board of Directors for Legal Aid of Orange County and was the Chair Emeritus of the Pacific Chorale, a symphonic choral organization that provided free after-school music education to inner city children. Rick was also an experienced mediator, having mediated many land use, environmental, and business cases.