Stewart Richlin is a senior associate at La Follette, Johnson, DeHaas, Fesler & Ames, APC, with nearly four decades of experience in civil litigation working in medical malpractice, real estate, business and contract disputes, and trademark matters.

He is best known for twelve years of litigation against the City of Los Angeles on behalf of more than 600 nonprofit patient collectives, which produced a landmark 2010 injunction against key parts of Los Angeles’ ordinance and drew coverage from the Los Angeles Times, NBC, and Fox News. A court-qualified expert witness and author of a book on cannabis law for patients, he has lectured at Loyola Law School.

He is also an early adopter of AI-assisted legal practice. He earned his J.D. from Southwestern School of Law and studied history at UCLA.