Biography
Rick W. Grady represents owners, developers, contractors, and subcontractors on public and private sector construction projects. His experience includes drafting and negotiating construction contracts, advising clients on public procurement issues, and regularly handling litigation involving change order disputes, mechanics' liens, stop notices, insurance issues, performance and payment bond claims, and delay claims.
Rick also represents businesses in general commercial litigation and has successfully litigated and resolved many disputes. He has served as second chair attorney in two trials, including one resulting in a judgment for his client, a large general contractor on a major public works project. Rick has significant experience in hearings before courts in both Northern and Southern California.
Before law school, Rick served for two years as a small business development volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps in Morocco, where he taught basic management and marketing skills. He primarily worked with pottery businesses in the town of Safi, and by the end of his service he had learned to speak fluent French and Moroccan Arabic. He worked summers as a frame carpenter for a construction company during high school and college.
Memberships
- Associated General Contractors Legal Advisory committee
Accolades
- Selected for inclusion in Northern California Super Lawyers - Rising Stars edition (2009, 2010 and 2011)
Education
Rick received his B.A., with distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, in economics and English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1998. He received his J.D. from the University of Nebraska College of Law in 2004, where he was a William M. Holt Scholar.
Bar Admissions
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- All California state courts