Richard Mallory
Position:
Senior Of Counsel
Education:
B.S. in Finance and Real Estate from the University of Southern California, 1966; J.D., Stanford Law School in 1969
Bar Admission:
California, 1970
Email:
rmallory@smcounsel.com
Personal Experience
Rick Mallory’s practice focuses on office, industrial and retail leases. He represents landlords and tenants in a broad range of leasing matters. In 1977, Rick was a founding Partner of the law firm of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis, LLP, practicing with that firm until June of 2019. He is a frequent speaker at real estate industry seminars and conventions throughout the country and has published many articles on the subject of commercial leasing. In addition to being a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and a member of the honorary land use society of Lambda Alpha International, he currently serves on the advisory board of the Practicing Law Institute (PLI) and has been the San Francisco chair of the PLI annual Commercial Real Property Institute, for the last 21 years.
Since 1984, according to a survey of his peers, he has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America as a leading California real estate attorney. In a 2004 legal newspaper survey, Rick was named as one of the top real estate attorneys in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since its initial publication, Rick has been listed in either the Northern California or the Southern California’s edition of Super Lawyers, and in 2006, 2009 and 2010 he landed on Super Lawyers‚ list of the Top 100 Northern California attorneys. In each edition of the Chambers & Partners USA Guide, he has been recognized for excellence as a California real estate attorney.
