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Richey entered the evening program at Salmon P. Chase College of Law, continuing to teach during the day. Summers off allowed Richey to apply for coveted summer clerkships but offers were scarce.
“I couldn’t get any traction at the big firms, maybe because I was 46 and a nursery school teacher,” said Richey. “If I was 46 and had been a banker, maybe. I didn’t get any offers from any of the big firms.”
Again, fate intervened. The late Greg Mohar, a parent of one of Richey’s students, was an attorney with Aronoff, Rosen and Hunt. He found out Richey was looking for a clerkship and brought him to the firm for three summers.
Richey’s biggest career break came when he was selected by the Hon. S. Arthur Spiegel as a law clerk. Spiegel was an admirer of The New School, where Richey had taught.
THE RICHEY RECORD
• THREE DAUGHTERS: Emily, Becky and Anna
• ONE CAT: Shoshanna (who has appeared in many CBA Zoom calls)
• HOBBIES: Enjoys walks and hikes at the Cincinnati Nature Center with wife Sharon
He has a favorite anecdote to share from his two years clerking with Spiegel.
“The first day I arrived, in the morning you’re signing up for health care and all that stuff. In the late morning, he called me and said, ‘So, there’s a hearing this afternoon on a consent decree in this case, big case. It’s at 2:00. Here are the briefs. I’d like to know your thoughts.’ I didn’t even know what a consent decree was!”
Richey clerked for Judge Spiegel from 1993 to 1995.
“The clerkship was the honor of a lifetime,” said Richey. “It was awesome witnessing the power of the District Court to do good. It was really great working for Judge Spiegel. He really was very great to his clerks in that he gave us a lot of respon- sibility. To this day, several of us former clerks still gather in his memory on his birthday.”
After his clerkship ended, Richey was again looking for a job, and again, another student’s parent, Pete Tamborski, made an
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Richey has been with Thompson Hine for more than 20 years.