Melissa Richards, a former Buchalter partner who this past summer set up her own firm after spending nearly a half-dozen years in-house at a national mortgage banker, has joined Mayer Brown’s consumer financial services practice in Northern California.
Richards left Buchalter in 2012 after being hired as chief legal and risk officer for San Ramon, California-based CMG Financial. This past summer Richards formed the Richards Law Group, an Oakland, California-based outfit she ran for about five months before making the move back into Big Law.
