Riki
Ghosh
For fifteen years he has stood between his clients and the allegations that threaten everything they have built: a practice, a company, a name. This is the work, and the way he does it.
Built in the courtroom, not around it.
Riki Ghosh spent fifteen years becoming a partner at a national law firm by doing the thing most lawyers avoid: taking the cases bound for trial and trying them. White-collar and felony criminal defense. Medical malpractice and professional liability. Complex civil litigation. The matters where there is no quiet settlement to hide behind and the outcome is decided in front of a jury.
He has defended physicians, executives, and licensed professionals against allegations of fraud, money laundering, enterprise corruption, and homicide. These are cases where a client's liberty, license, and reputation are all on the line at once. Across more than a thousand matters, his record is one of dismissals and defense outcomes secured when the stakes could not have been higher.
Our story.
When you call, you reach the attorney who will actually try your case, not an intake desk and not an associate you'll meet for the first time on the courthouse steps. The relationships he has built over fifteen years, with courts and within the profession, come with him. The bureaucracy does not.
He is deliberately low-profile about himself. As he puts it: he's the person on the ground investigating the case, determining the strategy, and crafting the arguments. He would rather let the record speak for itself: the motions won, the cases dismissed, the defense verdicts. The discretion he keeps around his own name is the same discretion he extends to every client's matter. For a sense of that record, see a selection of representative cases.
Who he represents.
Individuals and fellow counsel come to Riki when a matter is consequential enough that it cannot be left to chance, when a career, a license, a company, or a person's freedom depends on the result. Much of his work arrives by referral from other attorneys who know that a case is headed for trial and want a trial lawyer holding it. Whether he is retained at the outset or brought in later, he represents the client through the entire case, from the first court appearance and arraignment through motions, hearings, and verdict, with every matter prepared for trial from day one.
In medical malpractice and wrongful death, he now works principally for plaintiffs, patients and families harmed by negligence. Fifteen years spent defending those same cases for physicians, professionals, and major medical centers means he knows precisely how the defense will be built, because he built it. He continues to take select matters on either side.
A defense prepared for trial from the first conversation.
Direct access
You work with the attorney trying your case, start to finish. One judgment, one relationship, no hand-offs at the moment it matters most.
Absolute discretion
Every inquiry and every matter is handled in strict confidence. Reputation is often the thing being defended; it is protected at every step.
Tried, not just settled
The case is built as if it is going to a jury, because the willingness and ability to try it is what changes every conversation before it.
Tell him what you're facing.
There's no cost and no obligation, just a direct, confidential line to the attorney who will handle your case.