If you have matters that require legal services in the area of education law, estate planning, or employment law you  are in the right place. This web page is the online site of Rich Kitchens, Attorney at Law, in Concord, California. We have worked with teachers, administrators, parents, students, and school districts in dealing with school-related issues. Further, he has developed countelss wills and revocable living trusts for individuals, couples, and families. Please feel free to contact us with your questions. "Chance favors the prepared mind."

Firm Overview

With more than thirty years of experience in education, Rich Kitchens knows his way around school districts. His experience in the field will provide you with expert guidance. He has a degree in Politics (UC Santa Cruz '74). a California teaching credential (San Francisco State), a masters degree in "Educational Leadership" (CSU, Hayward), in addition to a law degree from John F. Kennedy University. He has won awards for his teaching and coaching. He is a tough negotiator who wants his clients to get what they deserve.

Rich Kitchens had mentored others in the use of mock trials to teach trial techniques and evidentiary rules. He has won awards from Court TV in the teaching about the law of sexual harassment. His textbook, Constitutional Law (3rd ed.), has helped many high school students understand the intricacies of the U.S. and California constitutions. He has recently published a textbook, California Public School Law, which is the outstanding treatise in the field. He has taught "Special Problems in Constitutional Law" and "Education Law" at Golden Gate University Law School in San Francisco and "California Education Law" at John F. Kennedy University Law School in Pleasant Hill. His presentations to the California League of High Schools, the California Council for the Social Studies, and the ABA's Division on Public Education, among other groups, on such topics as "What Educators Want (and Need) to Know About the Law" and "How to Teach Civics As a Course in Constitutional Law" have won accolades in Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego, Baltimore, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Sacramento. More recently, the call has gone out for training of administrators in the law of sexual harassment.

Rich Kitchens has extensive background involving teachers and grievances and labor disputes, unions and labor negotiation, districts involved with discipline hearings, special education disputes, and students facing expulsion and other disciplinary hearings. He has been a teacher, an administrator, a union advocate, and has worked as an attorney in a variety of settings.

We will represent most employees in connection with individual claims of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability discrimination, and claims of wrongful discharge. We will also represent students and parents who have suffered unjustly.