Richard Gordon

Richard S. Gordon is a partner at Gordon, Wolf & Carney, Chtd. in Hunt Valley, Maryland. Since starting his legal career in 1989, he has represented consumers, low-income clients and others facing powerful opponents, serving as lead counsel in many complex and class action cases brought on behalf of consumers, minorities, disabled children, migrant workers and businesses.

His litigation has targeted the cable industry, banks, title companies, insurers, car dealers, finance companies and large mortgage lenders, and over his career he has obtained multimillion-dollar verdicts and helped return hundreds of millions of dollars to clients. He is admitted in Maryland and before the U.S. Supreme Court, several federal circuit courts and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

Gordon earned his J.D. in 1989 from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where he served on the Maryland Law Review editorial board, after receiving his bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University. Best Lawyers in America has named him Lawyer of the Year for plaintiff class action and mass tort work in 2016, 2018 and 2020, and the Maryland Association for Justice gave him its Simon K. Walton Civil Justice Award in 2019. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Litigation Counsel of America.