Richard S. Sterger

I founded Sterger Law Group on a simple belief: that the people who need a lawyer the most deserve one who actually shows up for them — in the courtroom and throughout every step of the process. I am a trial attorney. I handle criminal defense, immigration, and personal injury litigation, and I take cases to trial. That willingness to fight — rather than settle for whatever is convenient — is what distinguishes the firm and what my clients count on. Personal injury litigation now occupies roughly half of my practice. I do not intake personal injury cases directly — instead, personal injury attorneys associate me and my team in when a case is headed to trial or involves genuinely contested liability. Over time, we have built a litigation and trial support team specifically suited to that work, and those referral relationships have become a meaningful part of how the firm operates. Before law, I spent over a decade building businesses that generated more than $2 billion in revenue for Fortune 100 companies in the mobile device industry. That background taught me how institutions think, how they protect themselves, and where they are vulnerable. I bring that understanding into every case I take — whether I'm facing a prosecutor, an insurance company, or a government agency. I came to the law through a winding road, shaped in part by a personal history that gave me an early and lasting understanding of what it means to navigate systems that weren't built with you in mind. That experience informs how I approach my clients — with patience, without judgment, and with a commitment to making sure they understand what is happening at every stage of their case.