Bruce Rich
2020 ALI Fellow
Prior to ALI, Bruce Rich served as partner for over 35 years at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a global law firm where he headed the intellectual property/media practice, which spans litigation and counseling in areas of copyright, trademark, First Amendment, and antitrust law. He has served on Weil’s management and nominating committees, and headed its recruiting committee.
Bruce is the chairman of EL Education, a nonprofit working to improve the quality of K-12 public school education in under-served communities. He serves on the board of visitors of Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, the advisory council of the Committee to Protect Journalists, and his pro bono legal work includes securing a reversal of an Alabama state prisoner’s death sentence.