Richard Bryan

Richard Melone Bryan is a California State Bar licensee with a record listing Bryan Hinshaw in San Francisco and a professional background in litigation, mediation and arbitration. His California admission dates to January 6, 1964.

Early in his career, Bryan clerked for U.S. District Judge Alfonso J. Zirpoli in San Francisco, serving in 1963–1964. He also worked as an assistant public defender in Alameda County. From 1977 to 1983, he was a member of the Federal Criminal Justice Defense Panel for the Northern District of California.

Contract disputes were among the subjects of his published work: “Contract Damages” appeared in the California Continuing Education of the Bar’s Attorney Damages Guide in 1974, followed by that organization’s publication of his “Guidelines in Handling a Breach of Contract Matter” in 1980. For the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Brief/Case, he wrote “The Delicate Art of Cross Examination,” published in 1981. He lectured on construction contracts for the Practicing Law Institute in 1976 and 1979.

Lorman Education Services lists Bryan as faculty for “Cutting Edge Litigation Issues in California Trust Administration.” Its account of his work describes trial advocacy, mediation and arbitration involving family law, probate, construction, real estate and business litigation. Bryan’s education included an honors A.B. in economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law.