Following is basic information about how to contact Richter, Miller & Finn's Washington, D.C. office. If you have not had prior dealings with the law firm, you should direct your initial inquiry either to Paul Richter or Tom Miller.

Each lawyer and other person employed in the law firm has one or more unpublished (i.e.not publicly listed) email addresses which are used exclusively for communications with persons with which the law firm has existing relationships. Those unpublished email addresses are provided privately as necessary to facilitate such communications by email. The law firm also provides clients and others as needed with "emergency contact procedures" which can be used to reach specific individuals associated with the firm on nearly 24/7 bases.

The law firm's internal telephone PBX system is configured on purpose NOT to be "user friendly" for outside callers who - when calling - do not know the extension number(s) for particular individual(s) the caller is seeking to reach or who are initiating "blind" calls to the firm's published telephone number. This discourages salespersons making "blind" calls, automated prerecorded message machine callers, and the like, and minimizes law firm staff time required to deal with such unwanted calls. The internal law firm extension numbers for particular individual(s) are freely given out to those who need to know them to facilitate immediate telephone contact, and several of those extensions appear on publicly accessible web pages here. Each telephone caller needing to get through to a specific individual (but who does not know or has misplaced the individual's extension number) or wishing to make a general contact with the law firm, may always leave a short voice mail message with callback information so that his or her call may be returned.

Please also note that the law firm and the lawyers in the law firm do not consent to receiving (and do not accept any responsibility to receive) any email communications from opposing or adverse counsel except by prearrangement (i.e., by advance, written agreement) with the other counsel involved or except as otherwise provided by an applicable law or Court rule. If such an email communication is sent and received, an acknowledgement of the receipt of such email will be returned to the sender by email. No sender of such an email should assume that the email which was sent has been actually received by the law firm or by a specific lawyer unless a verifiable acknowledgement of receipt has been received back.