Richard Condit is a partner at Mehri & Skalet and co-chairs the firm’s Whistleblower Rights Practice. Before joining Mehri & Skalet, Richard worked at the Government Accountability Project (GAP)—first from 1987-1995 and again in 2007. In his first stint at GAP, he helped develop the organization’s environmental whistleblower and citizen enforcement programs. When Richard returned to the organization, he served as Senior Counsel and led GAP’s in-house litigation of whistleblower and open government cases. Richard is also the former General Counsel for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), where he led the group’s whistleblower litigation efforts. Additionally, Richard previously served as an adjunct faculty member of the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, teaching Whistleblower Law and Practice in the classroom and through the school’s highly regarded clinical program. 

Richard is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and multiple federal district courts. He has also appeared before several U.S. Courts of Appeal and regularly practices before the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, and various state courts and agencies.