Experienced and Effective Automobile / Traffic Injury, Sexual Harassment and Long Term Disability Attorney from Portland Oregon.

For over two decades...
has resolved insurance claims.

Mr. Rizk exclusively advocates for everyday folk who face battles concerning:

1. Serious injury caused by another;

2. Sexual harassment or bullying by the hand of an employer or educator.

3. Long term disability denied by a private insurer.

Why Richard Rizk?

In his law practice, Richard promises aggressive, responsive representation with compassion and focus toward results. He anticipates opposing arguments yet is open to creative solutions, regardless whose idea. Since Mr. Rizk has years of experience representing insurers and working inside insurance companies, he knows what motivates insurers to pay claims.

Richard is Experienced & Confident

Richard has winning civil jury trial, bench trial and appeal records. Since the early 1990s Mr. Rizk has successfully argued and authored many disability appeals. He has also successfully resolved harassment and disability claims asserted against America's most powerful companies.

Richard Cares

He has supervised developmentally disabled persons in vocational settings, coached Special Olympics, worked under a well-regarded civil rights attorney, clerked for a state disability advocacy organization and, for the past 10 years, legally advocated for the injured, disabled and harassed. Mr. Rizk even worked inside a now defunct mental institution, advocating for persons committed there.

Rich overcame a childhood disability. That experience was long ago. But the personal struggle and victory remains a source of Richard's determination and purpose. Smart, attractive, self-interested attorneys are a dime a dozen. Instead, consider an attorney who cares about your claim and knows how to resolve it. Richard is motivated by justice, not selfish desire.

Where is Richard? "Rich" lives and works in Portland, Oregon. He has travelled extensively and is open to other cultures where human rights and environmental preservation are respected. He is licensed to practice law in Oregon and United States District Court (Oregon).

Beyond Law Practice

Mr. Rizk is a current delegate to the Oregon State Bar, representing the Portland Region. At 2011 Annual Oregon State Bar meeting Mr. Rizk spoke in favor of a bar measure requiring non-Oregon lawyers to confirm whether the attorney holds malpractice insurance. Mr. Rizk helped pass the measure in the face of strong, organized opposition and is proud of the warm response of his fellow bar delegates.

He is a former President of Cascade Ski Club. In that role, he successfully guided Cascade through litigation with a Mount Hood ski resort operator and developer. Richard was recognized in the Oregon State Bar Bulletin for that effort. See, "Profiles in Law", OSB Bulletin-January 2011 "Its' Good- Richard Rizk skies through the Rough Stuff" http://www.osbar.org/publications/bulletin/11jan/profiles.html.

In 2010 Mr. Rizk was recognized as Far West Ski Association's "Safety Person of the Year". That same year, Mr. Rizk was the first attorney to critically interview Conrad Saam of AVVO Inc. a national Seattle based attorney rating service. See, http://www.rizklaw.com/rizklaw_blog.php?id=64.

In 2010 Mr. Rizk launched www.mydisabilityappeal.com. The site serves as an information portal for those who face long term disability denials. More information about Richard can be found at http://www.linkedin.com/in/rizklaw.

 

Read what Richard's clients say.

People from all walks of life face the frustration and fear that a long term disability denial brings. With years of experience as an insurance company disability attorney, Richard Rizk helps clients reverse long term disability denials. In 2011, he launched his website mydisabilityappeal.com, where readers facing a disability claim denial can find valuable information and answers to questions related to the complex disability claim appeal process. If you need assistance with your claim, through mydisabilityappeal.com you may contact Mr. Rizk or one of his associates to discuss, at no cost to you, how to best proceed with your case.

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Let Richard Rizk's understanding of the other side, work for you.
You may contact Richard Rizk's office directly at 503-245-5677. His office is located at 1332 S.W. Custer Drive, Portland, Oregon 97219.

Education-

• 1988: NORTHWESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW; Portland, OR
  Lewis & Clark College: JD
• 1985: SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY; Dallas, TX
  BA, Political Science; BFA, Advertising
• 1981: CULVER MILITARY ACADEMY; Culver, IN
  Class of 1981