Richard M. Fricke
- Practice Areas:
- Litigation
- Real Estate
- Business Transactions
- Trust and Estate Planning and Administration
- Bar Admissions:
- New Jersey
- United States District Court – District of N.J.
- United States Court of Appeals – 3rd Circuit
- New York
- United States District Court – Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
- United States Court of Appeals – 2nd Circuit
- District of Columbia
- Education:
- Niagara University
- Georgetown University Law Center
Richard M. Fricke is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and has a solid, broad-based experience in a wide range of domestic and foreign industries, as well as the needs of individual clients. He has a proven track record for creating novel and practical strategies that result in favorable decisions for his clients. Mr. Fricke prides himself in being highly skilled at balancing the business and legal issues to minimize cost and exposure to the client. He has more than thirty-five years of experience litigating cases in the state and federal courts of New Jersey and New York.
Mr. Fricke is frequently tapped by The New Jersey Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection in instances of attorney defalcation. He was a 1999 recipient of its state award.
Mr. Fricke is very active with Georgetown University, where he has served for the past twenty years as a chair of the Northern New Jersey Committee of Admissions to the undergraduate colleges. He has just completed a six-year term on the Dean's Board of Advisors.
Since January of 2006, Mr. Fricke has served as President of the Northern Valley Alumni Association, an organization he created in collaboration with former superintendent Dr. Eugene Westlake. The Association conducts awards academic merit scholarships to graduating seniors at Demarest and Old Tappan, and presents a distinguished alumni award at each school’s graduation.