Richard Zhao is an associate in the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins. Richard handles a wide range of high-stakes government and internal investigations, complex commercial litigation, and professional liability matters. He has represented clients before the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Richard maintains an active pro bono practice, representing immigrants in asylum and other immigration matters, students with disabilities, and individuals in custody in clemency and other post-conviction matters.
While in law school, Richard was a notes editor for the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. His student note on juvenile life without parole won the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Award for Outstanding Scholarly Contribution. Richard was also a student attorney with the law school’s Juvenile Justice Clinic and Child Welfare Appellate Clinic. He spent his first-year summer as a judicial intern for Justice Megan Cavanagh on the Michigan Supreme Court.