Charles has been a member of Rottenberg Lipman Rich since March 2002. He devotes his practice to all aspects of commercial and high-end residential real estate, financing, cooperative and condominium law and general business transactional work. He represents both institutional clients and private individuals and investors in all aspects of commercial real estate practice, including sales and acquisitions of commercial properties, drafting and negotiation of commercial leases and related agreements, negotiation of joint venture agreements and construction and development agreements. He also represents New York cooperatives and condominium boards in various capacities and presently serves on the Board of Managers of his own downtown condominium building.

Archie L. Rich II is the founding partner of The Rich Firm, PC and is responsible for the firm’s management. Mr. Rich is an experienced litigation attorney with over 15 years’ experience in personal injury and medical malpractice matters. In addition to an extensive background in tort litigation, Mr. Rich’s professional experience includes substantial work in international business development and telecommunications.

David is a Partner and leads the firm’s New York Office. His practice for the past 25 years has concentrated on litigation and arbitration matters for the securities industry. He has represented broker-dealers, registered investment advisors, and investment banking firms, and their principals and representatives in a broad variety of matters nationwide, including disputes alleging unsuitability, unauthorized trading, fraud, market manipulation, blue-sky violations, as well as a wide variety of employment matters, including litigation and arbitration over allegations of gender, race, and age discrimination and compensation and “raiding” cases. David represents clients in regulatory matters before the SEC, FINRA and state regulators. David also frequently represents clients in the state and federal trial and appellate courts in commercial disputes, including employment, real estate and trusts and estates matters. David has served as a FINRA Industry Arbitrator and a New York City Civil Court Arbitrator. David is admitted to practice in the State Courts of New York, as well as the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. David was previously a Partner in the Litigation Department of Blank Rome, where he had also been Associate. Prior to that, David had been an Associate at Skadden Arps. David received his law degree from the Beasley School of Law at Temple University in 1985.

Mr. Richards has numerous Federal and State jury trials under his belt as well as over a 100 bench trials, as well as complicated appeals pending in both the California Court of Appeal and the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. He has numerous published opinions in both the State and Federal Courts. Mr. Richards has made new law affecting tens of thousands of Americans. He is a member of the United States Supreme Court Bar, the 2nd, 9th, and 11th Court of Appeals Bars, the Bar of the Eastern District of Michigan and the Bar of the Western District of Tennessee. He is also a member of the Northern, Central, Eastern and Southern Bars of the District of California as well as the California Bar. Ronald Richards has a storied and diverse legal career which makes him a seasoned Plaintiff’s attorney or hardened and savvy defense counsel. He knows the insides of both sides of the bar and his broad background makes him a lethal advocate who goes non-stop for the firms clients. Mr. Richards has litigation all across America. In the two years that followed, he won a 39 count Federal Court Jury Trial in the Eastern District of Tennessee and suppressed a large amount of MDMA in the La Paz County Superior Court in Arizona. In addition, he represents persons in the South East for slavery charges and has matters in Illinois relating to pseudoephedrine.

Russ Richards focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate governance. As a partner in our Corporate Governance and Mergers & Acquisitions practices, Russ represents public and private companies in a range of corporate transactions. Across a wide variety of industries, Russ works with publicly held and privately owned companies in a full range of merger and acquisition transactions. These transactions have included public and private M&A, joint ventures, and strategic investments for companies throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South America, the UK and Europe. Russ also represents Boards of Directors and Special Committees in planning and executing these transactions, and regularly advises public company Boards of Directors and Chief Executive Officers on corporate governance matters. Russ has been identified by Chambers USA and Georgia Trend as a leading lawyer in his practice area. He has also been listed in The Best Lawyers in America and selected as a BTI Client Service All-Star for delivering exemplary client service. Russ was also the recipient of the Daily Report Lifetime Achievement Award. Russ has been recognized as the 2023 and 2025 "Lawyer of the Year" for Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law in Atlanta in the 2023 and 2025 editions of The Best Lawyers in America.