Ronald Richards (lawyer)

Ronald Neil Richards (born April 7, 1967) is a Beverly Hills, California based criminal defense and civil litigation attorney who has made national media appearances as a legal expert commentator. He was the first lawyer to be cited on California Proposition 215 (1996), the medical marijuana statute, and worked as a professor of law at the San Fernando Valley College of Law from 2006 to 2007. Since 2011, Richards has sat as a temporary judge on the Los Angeles Superior Court.