As he prepares to end his term as president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, there can be little doubt about what lies at the center of Richard H. Middleton Jr.'s professional life. Shining through everything he says is his passion for what he sees as the civil court system's mandate to counteract, in the interests of everyday people, the power of special interests and corporate powers in America. Middleton's impassioned arguments, indeed, show him to be one of the chief proponents of the judiciary's role in proper governance of the nation on behalf of its citizens.
Trial practice is exciting.
It's extremely rewarding. With offices in Atlanta, San Diego, New Orleans, Mississippi, and Georgia, the firm is involved in many of the highest-profile cases in the United States. It was lead counsel in the Japanese slave-labor cases, has more HMO class actions filed than any other firm in the country, and has more than 2,300 Rezulin cases filed across the country. We're trying to provide a different type of class-action firm. We think that because so many firms have recognized that that is an abusive practice, that's why we're getting so much of this exciting business right now in our national class-action firm.