Rick Supple is an experienced trial lawyer and mediator who concentrates his practice in the representation of law firms and lawyers in professional ethics-related litigation and appeals, including discipline, sanction, admission, malpractice partnership and fee disputes and disqualification matters. He also represents law firms in internal investigations.
Mr. Supple is also experienced in representing companies in significant class action litigation, mass tort cases, intellectual property matters, securities litigation and other commercial disputes.
Mr. Supple joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in March 2004. Before entering private practice in 1999, he was Principal Trial Attorney for the Departmental Disciplinary Committee of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department. In that position he investigated and prosecuted numerous complex disciplinary matters, including approximately 20 reported cases involving formal hearings. Before joining the Disciplinary Committee, Mr. Supple was a staff attorney with the Criminal Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society in New York, where he represented indigent criminal defendants and handled many felony jury trials.
Mr. Supple is an adjunct professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, a faculty member of the Practising Law Institute and a member of Committee on Professional Discipline of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
In the Fall of 2005, Mr. Supple completed intensive training in mediation from the faculty of Pepperdine University School of Law’s top-ranked Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.
Mr. Supple’s publications include "Private Conduct and Professional Discipline,"
New York Law Journal, July 23, 2002.
Mr. Supple is a frequent lecturer, and has taught or been a panelist at dozens of CLE programs in New York area and elsewhere. His presentations include:
- “What’s Your Little Secret? They Want to Know,” Hinshaw’s annual Legal Malpractice & Risk Management Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 2010.
- “Can I Say What Really Happened?” Hinshaw’s annual Legal Malpractice & Risk Management Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 2009.