Career Highlights: Associate Justice, 2nd District Court of Appeal. Retired June 2017.
Business, commercial, class action, construction defect, employment, product liability, professional liability
Retired state appellate justice Richard D. Aldrich wrote the book on settlement conferences.
As a Ventura County Superior Court judge in the 1990s, Aldrich authored a booklet called the "Ventura County Multi-Door Courthouse" that served as a guide for judges on how to run settlement conferences and resolve cases.
In 1986, with some courts facing a five-year backlog, the California Legis... (continued)
