About
Overview
Ricardo is a member of Nichols Kaster’s Civil Rights and Impact Litigation practice group, where he litigates class and collective action cases involving discrimination, fraud, and other unfair business practices on behalf of employees, students, and other individuals. He has experience representing workers who have been shortchanged by their employers’ misconduct and protecting consumer interests against those of massive corporations.
Prior to law school, Ricardo worked as a financial examiner for the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions. During law school, he clerked for the Washington State Office of the Attorney General Government Compliance and Enforcement Division and was a Peggy Browning Fellow with a union-side labor and employment law firm in Washington DC, where he began his legal career prior to joining Nichols Kaster.
Ricardo speaks Spanish fluently.
Ricardo’s preferred pronouns are he/him/his.
Education
- J.D., University of Minnesota Law School
- B.A., Gonzaga University
Admissions
- Maryland
Presentations & Publications
- “Strategic Wage Theft Litigation” presented at the AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance DOOR conference in Washington, DC, June 2024.
Our team of passionate, talented professionals work every day on advancing and protecting people's rights in individual cases and class actions. No entity is too big to play fair, so please don’t hesitate to reach out to our firm to discuss the details of your situation.
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Practice Areas
We fight for the rights of both employees and consumers nationwide. We represent people from across the country in employee rights, wage and hour issues, financial services, and civil rights & social justice claims. We also help relators expose false claims submitted to the government.
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Cases
We are experienced in handling individual and multi-plaintiff cases and have the resources to take on companies, organizations, and government agencies of all sizes. We are currently handling many cases to advance employee, consumer, and civil rights.
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Our People
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