ACLU of Pennsylvania
Richard Ting is a Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU of Pennsylvania, where responsibilities include assisting with civil rights and civil liberties legal matters, such as free speech, transgender rights, and criminal justice issues. Prior to this role, Richard served as a Staff Attorney at Disability Rights Pennsylvania and as a Volunteer Attorney at the ACLU of Pennsylvania. Richard's legal career also includes experience as a Partner at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, managing a team of lawyers and overseeing international patent portfolios. Additional roles include Shareholder at Beck & Thomas, P.C., Law Clerk for Honorable Cathy Bissoon at the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and Associate Attorney at Reed Smith LLP. Richard's academic background includes a Doctor of Law from Harvard Law School, a Master’s in Toxicology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor’s in Biochemistry from Brown University.
ACLU of Pennsylvania
We are the ACLU's Pennsylvania affiliate, defending the Constitution and the Bill of Rights through litigation, advocacy, and community education and outreach. The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization dedicated to defending and expanding individual rights and personal freedoms throughout the entire state of Pennsylvania. Through advocacy, public education and litigation, our staff and volunteers work to preserve and enhance liberties grounded in the United States and Pennsylvania constitutions and civil rights laws. Among those liberties are freedoms of speech, religion and association; the right to petition the government; separation of church and state; the right to privacy; reproductive freedom; due process of law; the rights of the accused; and the right to equal treatment under the law.