Richard Eymann
Richard Eymann
Richard C. Eymann is a founding partner and lead litigator for the firm. He has been winning significant, and at times historic, justice for his clients during his 43 years as an attorney.
Richard has devoted his practice to fighting large corporations, governmental agencies, and insurance companies on behalf of the injured and other victims of wrongdoing. Several of his verdicts and settlements are among the largest ever achieved in Spokane, eastern Washington, and north Idaho. Richard won an $18 million dollar verdict against a nursing home chain after an elderly patient died from severe neglect and drug overdosing, Richard won an $11.5 million settlement against the BNSF railroad after a tragic fire that killed a well-known Ritzville, Washington farmer and destroyed hundreds of acres of wheat and other crops. Richard won a $4.2 million verdict against a school district that for years allowed a school counselor to sexually harass and exploit a female black student, and a $6.2 million verdict against a grocery store chain for gender discrimination against female employees. Three recent medical malpractice cancer cases settled for $ 9 million.
Richard has litigated cases against heavily armed defendants including Ford, General Motors, Aerospatiale Helicopter, Bechtel Corp., Kaiser Permanente, Dykerhoff Widman, Abbott Laboratories, General Electric, Hyundai, British Leyland, E.I. duPont de Nemours (“DuPont”), UNC Nuclear Industries, Allstate, Atlantic Richfield, State Farm, Eli Lilly, Rockwell International, Northwest Airlines, Parke Davis, Hertz, Cincinnati Bengals, Provident Life Insurance Co., Bristol-Myers Squibb, Costco, the United States, and the State of Washington. For more details on a few Mr. Eymann's victories on behalf of injured or damaged clients, view Richard Eymann's partial case list.
Richard is a past President of the Washington State Bar Association and Washington State Association of Justice, and Richard was named "Trial Lawyer of the Year" by that statewide organization.
Richard is a long time (45 years) local runner who also for many years has coached a grade school cross country team. Richard also served as President of Spokane's annual Bloomsday run in 1991, when it was the largest of its kind in the world, and was inducted into the Bloomsday Hall of Fame and has continued volunteer participation which is now 42+ years.
Richard earned his law degree from Gonzaga University in 1976. He worked his way through college first on a Weyerhauser "green chain" in Springfield, Oregon and then as an aide to U. S. Senator Wayne Morse was also a policeman in Washington, D.C. At age 22, he was the youngest elected delegate to the infamous 1968 National Democratic Convention. After graduating from the University of Oregon in 1968, he was a U.S. Army intelligence officer during the Viet Nam war and then a District of Columbia consumer investigator prior to law school.
Richard is licensed to practice in all Washington state and federal courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Richard has conducted depositions and other legal work in several foreign countries including Chile, Mexico, Canada, France, and Germany.