Richard Guerriero is a litigator who focuses on criminal defense in state and federal court, both trials and appeals. He has tried many jury trials in New Hampshire and Louisiana, the two states where he has lived during his career. He has argued cases in the New Hampshire Supreme Court and the Louisiana Supreme Court, as well as the First Circuit Court of Appeals, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.

Richard was the President of the New Hampshire Bar Association for the 2021-2022 term. In the preceding years, he served as a bar officer and on the bars Board of Governors. Richard is on the bar’s Ethics Committee and has chaired the bar’s annual ethics CLE for the last eleven years. In 2024, Richard received the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Annual Award for Distinguished Service to the Legal Profession.

Richard has been an attorney for 40 years, for the last 12 years at Lothstein Guerriero, PLLC, in Keene and Concord, New Hampshire. Prior to entering private practice in New Hampshire, Richard was the Director of Training and Litigation Support at the New Hampshire Public Defender for 12 years and a Public Defender for a total of 20 years. Richard earned his law degree from Louisiana State University in 1984 where he served on the Law Review. He clerked for Justice James Dennis at the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Richard was recognized as a Champion of Justice by the New Hampshire Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in 2005 and by the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in 1991. In 2007, Richard was selected as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. In 2009 he was a recipient of the New Hampshire Bar Foundations Frank Rowe Kenison Award for community service.

Richard lives in Keene, New Hampshire with his wife, Anne, who completed her career in public education in 2024 after thirty years. Richard and Anne have two adult daughters, one who teaches at a community arts program and the other who is in law school.

Company Firm

Lothstein Guerriero
Website

Firm Mailing

39 Central Sq Ste 202
Keene
New Hampshire
03431-3703
United States of America

Fellow Since

September 15, 2006

Practice Areas

  • Constitutional
  • Criminal Defense
  • White Collar-Defense

Chapter

  • New Hampshire

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