Richard Huszagh

Illinois Assistant Attorney General

Complex Litigation Counsel

Richard S. Huszagh is an Assistant Attorney General and Complex Litigation Counsel with the Illinois Attorney General, where he has worked since 2001.  He earned his J.D. with honors from Northwestern University in 1983, and an LL.M. in comparative law with high honors in 1984 from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.  Richard then worked for 13 years with the Chicago office of the legacy firm for DLA Piper.  In private practice, he represented the Illinois Education Association in various matters.  His main practice areas with the Attorney General are constitutional law, governmental powers, public pensions and benefits, federal civil rights, public revenue, charity regulation, administrative law, involuntary civil commitments, and federal energy regulation.  He has briefed and argued about 100 cases on appeal, including cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Seventh Circuit, the Illinois Supreme Court, and all Districts of the Illinois Appellate Court.