Richard H. Adler
Founding principal, and forty-five years at the Washington bar — by twenty years the longest career on these pages. His register entry is also the thinnest self-reported block here: no email, and Practice Areas left blank. His firm's rideshare page is the shortest we read, and the only one that tells you the law may leave you uncovered.
The bar record
We read Richard H. Adler in the Washington State Bar Association’s legal directory. Rows shaded below the line are the ones WSBA labels as coming from the lawyer, not from the Bar.
Washington never says “none”, so neither do we. The Disciplinary History section carries no entries and no statement — only a warning that in some cases discipline search results will not reveal all disciplinary action relating to a Washington licensed legal professional, and may not display links to the official decision documents. So what we can report is narrow: no disciplinary entries are displayed, and WSBA warns its search may not display everything. That is not the sentence “this lawyer has no discipline”, and we will not write the second when the register only supports the first. Every other state we use answers out loud; this one does not.
And the shaded rows might be wrong. Above that block WSBA states that the information is provided voluntarily by the licensed legal professional and might be incomplete, inaccurate, and/or out of date. Texas calls its equivalent “self-reported”. Washington says it might be wrong. Note also the Judicial Service line: asked whether this lawyer has ever served as a judge, the register answers Unknown. A register that will print its own ignorance is rarer than it should be.
What the record shows
Forty-five years at the Washington bar, admitted 24 October 1980. The next longest on these pages is Karen Koehler at forty, and our only previous Washington listing, John-Paul Gustad, at twenty-five.Verified
His WSBA entry carries no email address and “Practice Areas: None Specified”. Both are optional. Set against Gregory McBroom, who selected forty-three practice areas, the two of them mark the outer edges of the same self-reported field.Verified
His firm’s rideshare page says something none of the other thirteen say: that there are loopholes under Washington State law that can lead to a lack of coverage for injured parties. It is a firm page warning you that you may not be covered.Verified
What the firm says
He says he has practised for more than 40 years since graduating from Georgetown Law and founded the firm to bridge legal and medical knowledge, with a team focused on traumatic brain and spinal cord injury.Reported
He says he worked alongside his client Zackery Lystedt and medical, sporting and policy figures on concussion legislation that was subsequently passed in all fifty states, and that the firm went on to endow the Zackery Lystedt Endowed Professorship and a traumatic brain injury research fund at the University of Washington.Reported
Rideshare
What we haven’t checked
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