Richardson Richardson Boudreaux, PLLC

History tied to Tulsa legal work

Gary L. Richardson founded The Richardson Law Firm in 1984. The firm later adopted the name Richardson Richardson Boudreaux. Its published legal name is Richardson Richardson Boudreaux, PLLC.

Charles L. "Chuck" Richardson joined the firm in 1991 and became a partner in 1994. He earned a business degree at the University of Oklahoma and a law degree at the University of Tulsa College of Law. He served as an Assistant District Attorney in Tulsa County. In June 1997, he became Tulsa County District Attorney after an appointment.

Gary Richardson has retired, while Chuck Richardson now holds the managing partner role. The website credits Gary with verdicts that set county records in eleven Oklahoma counties. It also identifies his $58 million defamation verdict and a $10.2 million verdict in a farm implement case.

Focus and practice areas

The firm represents plaintiffs who have suffered personal injuries or lost a family member. Its listed work covers car, truck, and motorcycle accidents. It also handles slip and fall claims, medical malpractice, brain and spinal injuries, product liability, and wrongful death cases.

Vehicle accident and premises claims

Car and motorcycle cases commonly turn on fault, injury causation, and the amount of loss. A typical file may contain a crash report, photographs, witness accounts, medical records, repair records, and proof of missed work. Insurance coverage and policy limits can also affect how a claim proceeds.

Truck accident claims may involve another set of records. Driver logs, electronic vehicle data, inspection documents, maintenance files, and company records can bear on fault. The conduct of the driver and the duties of a carrier may require separate review.

Slip and fall claims concern the condition of property and the responsibility of the person or business that controlled it. Common issues include how a hazard arose, how long it existed, and whether the responsible party knew about it. Photographs, video, incident reports, inspection logs, and witness statements may shape the factual record.

Medical malpractice and serious injuries

Medical malpractice cases examine the care a patient received and the cause of the claimed injury. Medical charts, test results, imaging, consent records, and treatment timelines often form the core of the file. The governing standard of care and the effect of any departure require close analysis.

Brain and spinal injury cases can involve long treatment histories. Medical records may track diagnosis, surgery, therapy, medication, and changes in physical or cognitive function. Evidence about future care, work limits, and daily support may affect the calculation of damages.

The firm groups these injuries with its wider plaintiff-side personal injury work. That scope covers both the event that caused the harm and its long-term effects. The named practice areas indicate work on claims with medical, financial, and personal evidence.

Product liability and wrongful death

Product liability cases can raise questions about design, manufacture, warnings, and instructions. Preservation of the product may matter because later inspection or testing can depend on its condition. Purchase records, manuals, photographs, repair history, and prior communications may also become part of the case.

Wrongful death cases address a death allegedly caused by another party's conduct. Governing law determines who may bring the claim and which losses the claim may include. The factual work can involve medical records, employment records, family evidence, and documents tied to the event.

These claims may proceed through insurer discussions or civil litigation. Litigation can include pleadings, written discovery, depositions, motions, and trial. Courts apply procedural deadlines and rules of evidence throughout that process.

How the attorney team is built

The website names Chuck Richardson as managing partner and Jason C. Messenger as a partner. Messenger pursued law after an early ambition to become a fighter pilot. The site provides no law school detail for him, but it identifies his current leadership role.

Brian C. Trent is an associate attorney who focuses on plaintiff-side injury and accident work. His stated areas include car, truck, and motorcycle accidents, along with wrongful death. The roster also names Colton L. Richardson as an associate attorney.

Experience on both sides of injury claims

Melissa E. Webb handles plaintiff personal injury cases in Tulsa. She previously defended insurance and workers' compensation claims. Her background includes direct experience with the way insurers assess injury cases.

Grecia E. Gramajo earned her law degree at Oklahoma City University School of Law in 2021. She has worked in medical malpractice defense and personal injury. She also worked as a personal injury paralegal before law school.

Steve McClellan attended the University of Oklahoma for college and law school. He graduated in 1994 and began his legal career representing injured workers. He grew up in Broken Arrow, near Tulsa.

Founder and memorial profiles

The attorney roster preserves a retired profile for founder Gary Richardson. His profile ties the present firm to its original name and its 1984 start. The verdicts attributed to him also supply identified examples of his trial work.

The site carries an in memoriam profile for Paul T. Boudreaux, who lived from 1955 to 2025. Boudreaux grew up in Oklahoma City and graduated from the University of Oklahoma. He moved to Tulsa in 1980.

Boudreaux tried more than 200 matters before juries, judges, and arbitrators. These are three distinct forms of adjudication, each with its own procedures. His published trial count covers all three categories.

Reported results and courtroom experience

The website reports total client recoveries above $500 million. Other material on the site uses a figure above $600 million. Both amounts come from the firm's own published account.

The $58 million defamation verdict offers an identified result with a case type and amount. The website attributes that verdict to Gary Richardson. It separately identifies the $10.2 million farm implement verdict and county record verdicts in eleven Oklahoma counties.

In my opinion, the identified verdicts are the strongest result details on the site because each connects an amount to a type of case. The aggregate recovery figure covers the firm's wider body of work. The site does not provide a case-by-case list for that total.

The firm describes more than 100 years of combined legal experience across its team. Its attorney histories include prosecution, insurance defense, medical malpractice defense, workers' compensation, and plaintiff personal injury work. The website states that its lawyers have tried cases in county, state, and federal courts in Oklahoma and other states.

Fees handled on a contingency basis

The firm takes personal injury cases on a contingency basis. Under that model, a client owes no attorney fee unless the firm recovers compensation. Any fee then comes out of the recovery rather than from money paid at the start of the case.

This approach ties the firm's payment to the result of the matter. It lets an injured person open a claim without paying hourly legal charges while the case is pending. After a serious injury, when medical bills and lost income already press on a household, the timing of legal costs often shapes whether someone moves forward with a claim.

A contingency agreement still leaves room for case expenses. Costs for records requests and expert opinions can arise as a matter proceeds, and the written agreement a client signs sets how those are treated. The record for this firm states the contingency terms, under which no fee applies without a recovery. It gives no fee percentage.

Lawyers who work on contingency generally weigh the facts and the likely recovery before they agree to take a case. For a claimant, that review at the intake stage can also give an early sense of the claim. The published material here does not describe the firm's intake steps, so a caller would learn the specifics from the office directly.

Courts and venues across Oklahoma

Tulsa sits at the center of the firm's work, and its lawyers have appeared in county, state, and federal courts in Oklahoma. Some of that trial work has taken them to courts outside the state. Chuck Richardson holds admission in Oklahoma and in Texas, which widens where he can appear.

Venue matters early in an injury claim. A crash on an Oklahoma highway, a fall inside a Tulsa business, or a defective product sold in another county can each land in a different court, and the choice affects the applicable procedural rules and the pool from which a jury is drawn. Federal court comes into play when parties are from different states and the amount in dispute clears the statutory threshold, which happens often in trucking cases against out-of-state carriers.

Trial work as a working method

The county record verdicts attributed to Gary Richardson span eleven Oklahoma counties, which points to a practice built on trying cases rather than resolving all of them by agreement. Paul Boudreaux carried that further with more than 200 matters taken to a jury, a judge, or an arbitrator. A firm that prepares files as though they will be tried tends to develop the evidence differently from one that assumes settlement, and insurers generally price claims with that history in mind.

Arbitration deserves separate mention because it follows its own path. A neutral or a panel hears the dispute, discovery is usually narrower, and the decision is difficult to appeal. Bench trials remove the jury and put fact-finding with the judge. Each format asks something different of the lawyer presenting the case.

Perspective drawn from defense practice

Several attorneys here came to plaintiff work after time on the other side. Melissa Webb defended insurance and workers' compensation claims. Grecia Gramajo practiced in medical malpractice defense. Steve McClellan started out representing injured workers. That mix means the firm has people who have seen how adjusters reserve a file, how defense counsel builds a causation argument, and where a claim tends to be attacked.

For a client, the practical effect shows up in preparation. Medical records get read with an eye toward the entries a defense expert will seize on. Gaps in treatment, prior injuries, and inconsistent statements are the usual pressure points, and identifying them early is better than meeting them for the first time in a deposition.

Continuity across two generations

The firm has stayed in the Richardson family across four decades. Gary founded it in 1984, Chuck came in seven years later and now manages it, and Colton Richardson practices as an associate. Continuity of that kind gives a firm a stable institutional memory of local judges, opposing counsel, and how particular claims tend to move in Tulsa County.