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Richard Wirtz is one of California’s most experienced and successful trial attorneys. Most recently, he has tried 30 California Lemon Law cases to jury verdict. His practice also includes employment matters, business disputes, and trademark infringement. Richard Wirtz is the founding and managing attorney of Wirtz Law APC, a trial attorney law firm providing consistently solid and successful results. Since 1988, Mr. Wirtz has been handling cases in state and federal courts on a local, regional, national, and international level. He represents consumers, employees, entrepreneurs, executives, and businesses of all sizes. His extensive trial experience includes cases against the largest and most powerful companies in the world, including Google, Qualcomm, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Yamaha, Walmart, Ford, Chrysler, GM, BMW, Jaguar, Land Rover, Hyundai, Mercedes Benz, Audi, Volkswagen, and Kia. As a lawyer’s lawyer, he has represented law firms like The Cochran Firm and Knight Law Group. He is regularly retained by other California Lemon Law firms to try their cases. Above all, he is committed to seeing clients thrive by minimizing legal risks and maximizing successful outcomes.. Mr. Wirtz has a respected legal presence and according to the national rating service, Martindale-Hubbell, maintains a “AV Preeminent” peer and client rating. In 2012, he was recognized by his San Diego peers as a top employment attorney and has been selected as Super Lawyer (top 5% of all lawyers) since then. Throughout his career, Mr. Wirtz has continually used his profession to advance community justice and enrichment. Prior to starting his law firm in 1995, he opposed Fortune 500 Companies in high-profile, multimillion-dollar, national class actions involving securities and consumer fraud, unfair trade practices and complex business issues. Mr. Wirtz also helped defend the United Farm Workers Union against wrongful boycott charges in the final days of Cesar Chavez’s life. Beyond the courtroom and the conference room, Mr. Wirtz can also be found offering his professional insights as a legal expert on several local television and radio programs.. Mr. Wirtz received his law degree from the University of San Diego (J.D., 1987) and his undergraduate degree from Knox College (B.A., History, 1984).

My practice focuses on estate planning, probate and trust administration, and probate and trust litigation.  I am licensed in California and Nevada.  I have diverse experience in the areas of wills, trusts, powers of attorney, health care directives, probate estates, trust administration, trust and estate litigation, business formation, and federal and state taxation. Past litigation clients include individual and professional trustees, beneficiaries, surviving spouses, care givers, omitted heirs, competing wills, adopted out children, intestate claims of predeceased spouse to real property, spousal property petitions, partition actions, undue influence and elder abuse claims, and representation of a co-administrator/co-executor in a 13 year probate.  Prior to joining Goodwin, Brown, Gross & Lovelace, APC, I was an attorney with Albence and Associates, APC, for nearly 5 years in the same practice area.  Before Albence & Associates, APC, I was an attorney at a major securities litigation firm headquartered in San Diego.  With securities litigation I was involved in a variety of complex litigation cases, including mortgage backed securities cases and post-merger derivative suits.  I believe my diverse litigation experience in a wide variety of trust and probate litigation matters, all the way to multi-party, national scale cases, give me a unique perspective in my estate planning, affording my estate litigation clients exceptional representation and my estate planning clients practical experience of the implications of how documents are drafted and the situations they create.. I earned my law degree from the University of San Diego, where I also earned a Master of Laws in Taxation, with an emphasis on complex estate planning and business planning.  Prior to law school, I earned my B.A. in Economics from UC San Diego.  I am licensed to practice law in California and Nevada, and to appear in the Southern District of the United States Federal Court.. I am very proud to be a current board member with the San Diego Council on Literacy and a strong supporter of the San Diego Equality Business Association. Some of my past philanthropic activities include the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, Habitat for Humanity, and the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer program.

I am a family man, very involved in my community, and an officer in my church.  My little boy and my wife are the joys of my life.  Our law firm is committed to advancing the communities in which we practice.  I am involved in the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Escondido Charitable Foundation, and the YMCA Board of Directors.  We are very proud to represent our many clients during some of the most challenging times in their lives.  My staff is unbelievable.  I value my staff more than they'll ever know.  Your case is treated as the most important case in our firm.  We would be honored to help you with your legal matter!

Experienced E attorney serving clients in San Diego and surrounding areas.

Experienced E attorney serving clients in San Diego and surrounding areas.

Experienced E attorney serving clients in San Diego and surrounding areas.

Experienced E attorney serving clients in San Diego and surrounding areas.

Experienced E attorney serving clients in San Diego and surrounding areas.

Experienced E attorney serving clients in San Diego and surrounding areas.

Experienced E attorney serving clients in San Diego and surrounding areas.

Experienced E attorney serving clients in San Diego and surrounding areas.

Experienced E attorney serving clients in San Diego and surrounding areas.

Experienced E attorney serving clients in San Diego and surrounding areas.

Experienced E attorney serving clients in San Diego and surrounding areas.

Experienced E attorney serving clients in San Diego and surrounding areas.

Experienced E attorney serving clients in San Diego and surrounding areas.

Experienced E attorney serving clients in San Diego and surrounding areas.

Experienced E attorney serving clients in San Diego and surrounding areas.

Experienced E attorney serving clients in San Diego and surrounding areas.