Douglas R. RichmondDoug Richmond is a Senior Vice President with the Lockton Companies, where he consults with Lockton's law firm clients on professional responsibility and liability issues. Before joining Lockton, Doug was a Managing Director in Aon's Professional Serices Practice (2004-2024). Prior to his time at Aon, Doug was a partner with Armstrong Teasdale LLP in Kansas City, Missouri (1989-2004), where he had a broad trial and appellate practice. In his time at Armstrong Teasdale, he tried over 40 major cases as "first chair" and was often engaged to handle appeals of cases tried by other lawyers. In 1998, he was named the nation's top defense lawyer in an insurance industry poll as reported in the publications Inside Litigation and Of Counsel. He is a former member of both the ABA's Standing Committee on Lawyers' Professional Liability and the ABA's Standing Committee on Ethics & Professional Responsibility. He is also a member of the American Bar Foundation, American Law Institute (ALI), American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), and Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC). Doug has also been selected to The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of legal malpractice, personal injury litigation, and railroad law. In 2003, the Euromoney Legal Media Group named him as one of the nation's top insurance and reinsurance lawyers. Doug is the lead author of the book Professional Responsibility in Litigation (3d ed. 2021), and the co-author of an insurance law treatise, Understanding Insurance Law (6th ed. 2018) and an insurance law casebook, Cases and Materials on Insurance Law (9th ed. 2021). He is also a named editor of the New Appleman Insurance Law Practice Guide. He has published more than 100 articles in university law reviews, and many more articles in other scholarly and professional journals. Doug teaches Legal Ethics at the Northwestern University School of Law; Insurance Law and seminars on Liability Insurance Law and Legal Malpractice at the University of Florida College of Law; and Legal Malpractice at the Texas A&M University School of Law. He previously taught Trial Advocacy and Insurance Law at the University of Kansas School of Law, and Insurance Law and a seminar on Damages at the University of Missouri School of Law. Doug earned his J.D. at the University of Kansas, an M. Ed. from the University of Nebraska, and his B.S. from Fort Hays State University. Read More Read Less