Joel Richardson

Practice Areas

International Arbitration & Cross-Border Litigation.

Career

Mr. Richardson is a senior member of Kim & Chang’s International Arbitration & Cross-Border Litigation practice and leads the firm’s North American Arbitration Desk. He is a member of Singapore International Mediation Centre’s Specialist Mediator panel, an arbitrator on Korean Commercial Arbitration Board’s International Arbitrator panel, and Co-Chair of the KCAB Next Steering Committee. He served as an adjunct-professor of the Korean Judicial Research and Training Institute. Prior to joining Kim & Chang in 2006, Mr. Richardson practiced US litigation at Arnold & Porter in Washington, DC and clerked for Judge William Stiehl of United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.

Professional Memberships

District of Columbia Bar and Maryland Bar.

Publications

Understanding Cultural Challenges in the Cross-Examination of Asian Witnesses, Take the Witness: Cross-Examination in International Arbitration (JurisNet, LLC, 2019);

“Understanding the Culture Challenges of Representing Korean Parties in International Arbitration,” Dispute Resolution Journal (Co-author, Juris Net, LLC, 2017);

The International Arbitration Review: Korea Chapter (Edition 8-10) (Co-author, The Law Reviews, 2017-2019);

Getting The Deal Through - Arbitration: Korea Chapter (Co-author, Law Business Research, 2017-2019).

Personal

Washington University School of Law (J.D., Order of the Coif, 2002);

Augustana College (B.A., cum laude, 1998).