Biography
Rich Bridgford is the founding partner of Bridgford, Gleason & Artinian. He presently acts as plaintiff’s counsel in the following mass tort and class action litigation:
- Mr. Bridgford has represented close to 12,000 wildfire victims in the recovery of nearly $2 billion in every major wildfire in California and Hawaii
- Mass tort 2017 Las Vegas shooting lead with more than 200 death and injury cases
- Class actions on defective copper pipe cases for product defect (over 15 class actions)
- Class action wage hour reporting time issue (over 10 class actions)
- Wrongful death construction and train-related accidents (largest death recovery in Placentia Yorba Linda train crash)
Mr. Bridgford also represents individuals and businesses in breach of contracts, business/commercial fraud, construction defect, construction delay, real estate contracts, real estate fraud, and broker/finder actions. Beyond his extensive experience as an Orange County personal injury lawyer, he has handled high value estates (beneficiary/trustee disputes), insurance bad faith and coverage, unfair competition, trade secrets/intellectual property, wrongful termination, and high value car accidents. Liability exposure on these cases has ranged from $500,000 to $13.5 billion dollars.
He graduated from Stanford Law School. Before starting his firm, he was an attorney at Paul Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in the firm’s Los Angeles and Orange County offices as well as Hamilton & Samuels in Newport Beach. Prior to his work in private practice, he was an extern in the White House Office of Legal Counsel in Washington, D.C.
