Douglas R. Richmond is the Managing Director in the Professional Services Group of Aon Risk Solutions in Chicago. He was a partner at Armstrong Teasdale LLP in Kansas City. He wrote an article in the Mercer Law Review about legal funding which gave a deep and fair look at all the actors of the industry.

The article titled Other People’s Money: The Ethics of Litigation Funding is also about looking at the situations where people need to use funding, the benefits of the funding, and the counterpoints and critics to it. He also writes about the ethics of the litigation funding industry.