Background
Eckardt, Richard William was born on March 8, 1938 in Saint Charles, Illinois, United States. Son of Frederick William and Mira Helen Louise (Vance) Eckardt.
Eckardt, Richard William was born on March 8, 1938 in Saint Charles, Illinois, United States. Son of Frederick William and Mira Helen Louise (Vance) Eckardt.
Ohio State University (Bachelor of Arts, 1959). University of Southern California (Juris Doctor, 1966).
Worked at Eckardt & Khoury (Los Angeles, California) specializing in General Civil and Trial Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Banking, Corporation, Construction, Insurance, Real Property, Estate Planning, Trust, Probate, Corporate Financing and International Business Law. Admitted to the bar, 1967, California and United States.
District Court, Northern and Central Districts of California.
1972, United States. Supreme Court. Phi Alpha Delta (Secretary, 1965-1966).
Member, Board of Directors, and Company-President, Lambda Alumni Association, University of Southern California, 1993. Master Bencher, Los Angeles Legion Lex American Inns of Court.
Judge Pro Tempore, Los Angeles Municipal Court, 1978-1985.
Member, Los Angeles World Affairs Council. Member: Los Angeles County (Member: Judicial Evaluation Committee, 1989. Legal Services for the Poor Committee, 1985-1989.
Delegate to State Bar Conference of Delegates, 1983, Executive Committee, 1987.
Member, Sections of: Business and Corporation Law. Real Property; Taxation.
Probate and Trust Law. Law Office Management), Federal and American (Member, Sections of: Real Property, Probate and Trust Law.
Corporation, Banking and Business Law.
Taxation. Economics of Law Practice) Bar Associations. The State Bar of California.
Los Angeles Lawyers for Human Rights (Secretary, 1979-1985.
Member, Board of Trustees, 1979-1985). Association of Business Trial Lawyers. American Judicature Society.
Organized in 1973, the firm is an established general practice business law firm with areas of emphasis in complex real property litigation and in complex business litigation.
The firm was formerly known as Eckardt & Ruonala, and earlier, as Katsky, Ker, Eckardt & Hunt. Commencing in the year 1968, Mr.
Eckardt was counsel for Pacific Lighting Corporation (now known as Pacific Enterprises), the holding company for Southern California Gas Company. He later was associated with the law firms of Mitchell & Mitchell, and with Sprague & Clements, before establishing this firm.
Mr. Eckardt was the organizing attorney for Unity Savings & Loan Association.
In the California Supreme Court, Mr. Eckardt made new law on the subject of extraordinary attorney fees in establishing and defending fee claims in contested probates. Estate of Trynin (1989) 49 California
3d 868.
264 California Rptr. 93; 782 P.2d 232.
Member, Board of Directors, and Company-President, Lambda Alumni Association, University of Southern California, 1993. Master Bencher, Los Angeles Legion Lex American Inns of Court. Judge Pro Tempore, Los Angeles Municipal Court, 1978-1985.
Member, Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
Member: Los Angeles County (Member: Judicial Evaluation Committee, 1989. Legal Services for the Poor Committee, 1985-1989.
Delegate to State Bar Conference of Delegates, 1983, Executive Committee, 1987. Member, Sections of: Business and Corporation Law.
Real Property; Taxation.
Probate and Trust Law. Law Office Management), Federal and American (Member, Sections of: Real Property, Probate and Trust Law. Corporation, Banking and Business Law.
Taxation.
Economics of Law Practice) Bar Associations. The State Bar of California. Los Angeles Lawyers for Human Rights (Secretary, 1979-1985.
Member, Board of Trustees, 1979-1985).
Association of Business Trial Lawyers. American Judicature Society.