Ronald E. Richardson

Ron Richardson joined the Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos in 1987. He left to join the Murphy Falcon Murphy firm in 2022 and returned to the Angelos firm in 2026. Over the course of his 39 years practicing law, Mr. Richardson served as co-counsel on numerous product liability and mass tort cases generating well over a billion dollars in verdicts and settlements. Two of his most successful trial verdicts and ultimate settlements occurred in 1993 and 2011. In 1993, in what is commonly referred to as Consol. II, Mr. Richardson served as co-lead counsel in a consolidated mass tort products liability common issues trial on behalf of over 8,000 asbestos clients against numerous asbestos manufacturers, suppliers and installers that resulted in unprecedented verdicts and settlements. In 2011, as co-lead counsel in a mass tort property damage action against ExxonMobil Corporation, Mr. Richardson represented over 150 homeowners and businesses located in Jacksonville, Maryland. The potable wells of these properties were contaminated by a 26,000-gallon gasoline release from an ExxonMobil service station in 2006. The six-month trial in the Baltimore County Circuit Court resulted in a jury verdict of $1.542 billion in compensatory and punitive damages; one of the largest civil verdicts in Maryland history.

Mr. Richardson has successfully argued before the Appellate Court of Maryland, the Supreme Court of Maryland and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has been recognized as one of the top 100 lawyers in Maryland and as a Lawyer of Distinction. He is licensed to practice law in Maryland, the District of Columbia and New York.

Ron served as President of the Monumental City Bar Association and co-founded the Monumental City Bar Foundation through which he sought and obtained financing to produce, in conjunction with Maryland Public television, Color at the Bar; a documentary of the history of African-American lawyers and judges in the Baltimore metropolitan area. He also co-chaired a committee that organized and supervised the production of Maryland State Bar Association: An Oral History featuring remarks from 24 MSBA past presidents from 1974-2004.

The law is not his only passion. Ron authored the first and second editions of Oneness With God: A Christian Attorney’s Analysis of What it Means to be Created in the Image and Likeness of God for which he received the Agape Literary Award.