Richard Buckner

Counsel

Rich Buckner is a counsel in O’Melveny's Los Angeles office and a member of the Class Actions, Mass Torts, and Insurance Litigation Practice.  His civil litigation practice covers a broad range of subjects, including complex insurance coverage and insurance bad faith litigation, business tort litigation, complex contract matters, intellectual property, and antitrust and unfair competition litigation in both individual and class action matters.

Illustrative Professional Experience

• Represented a frozen foods company in trade secret, breach of fiduciary duty, and unfair competition litigation against former executives of the company and their new employer
• Represented a telecommunications company in a complex contractual and billing dispute with another telecommunications entity to which it provided, and from which it received, significant telecommunications services
• Represented a multi-national corporation in defending against claims for alleged business torts in connection with a proposed high-tech satellite communications project in the former Soviet Union
• Represented a public agency in pursuing civil public corruption claims against former employees of the agency
• Represented a technology company in asserting antitrust claims both affirmatively and as a basis for invalidating certain patents as a defense to patent infringement claims
• Represented insurers in environmental and other complex coverage litigation as well as in high stakes bad faith litigation

Professional Activities

Law Clerk,  Honorable Walter Ely, U.S. Circuit Court
Admitted to Practice,  U.S. District Court, Northern, Central, and Southern Districts of California; U.S. District Court, Arizona District; U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit