Richard Head

Richard Head is a partner at Sher Leff. He focuses his practice on complex environmental contamination litigation. Before joining Sher Leff, he was Associate Attorney General for the New Hampshire Justice Department. Over the course of his 14 year career at the Department of Justice, he argued more than 15 cases before the New Hampshire Supreme Court and frequently testified before the New Hampshire Legislature on a wide range of issues on behalf of the Attorney General. Head also held multiple senior leadership roles throughout his tenure with the Department of Justice. As Associate Attorney General, he was the Director of the Division of Legal Counsel and oversaw the management of the Civil and Transportation Bureaus and the Charitable Trust Unit. As a Senior Assistant Attorney General, he served as the Bureau Chief of the Environmental Protection Bureau and the Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau. Prior to working for the New Hampshire Justice Department, Head worked in the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services after spending 10 years in private practice as a litigator. He earned his B.A. from Clark University and his J.D. and M.S. in Environmental Science from Indiana University. During law school, he was an editor of the Indiana Law Journal.