Richard is the founder and Executive Director of The Sedona ConferenceŽ. As a practicing attorney, he has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in antitrust, IP and other complex business litigation since 1978. Prior to founding The Sedona ConferenceŽ, Richard was Co-Chair of the Antitrust Practice Group of the Minneapolis law firm of Gray Plant Mooty, which he had joined in 1987. Before joining Gray Plant Mooty Richard owned and operated a nationally renowned jazz club, practiced in a plaintiff's antitrust class action law firm in Minneapolis, and with a large, defense-oriented firm in San Francisco, CA.

Richard Braman profile from The Federal Lawyer, September 2003.