Richard B. Benson, the Managing Partner of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP (BHFS), holds ultimate executive responsibility for the firm’s litigation strategy, attorney conduct, and client engagement. As such, Benson is not a distant or uninformed figurehead — he is a willful participant and enabler of a firm-wide campaign of retaliation, abuse of process, and fraudulent litigation designed to silence, discredit, and obstruct me.

Benson was made aware, both directly and indirectly, that BHFS attorneys — including Eric Walther, Madyson Bathke, as well as Morgan Pietz — were engaging in unethical conduct. This included filing false declarations, facilitating the takedown of my protest websites, enabling unauthorized practice of law, and submitting bad-faith anti-SLAPP motions to stifle legitimate claims.

Rather than intervene or investigate, Benson allowed and reinforced these acts, signaling to the court and the public that BHFS would stop at nothing to shield its client, Shein, from accountability — even if it meant violating the law and trampling the rights of a self-represented transgender whistleblower.

As managing partner, Benson had both the authority and the obligation to prevent the firm from engaging in unlawful litigation practices. Instead, he oversaw a coordinated strategy involving harassment, extrajudicial suppression, deception of the tribunal, and procedural manipulation. Benson’s leadership transformed BHFS from a legal service provider into a central node in a racketeering scheme—weaponizing law to retaliate against protected speech and deny me access to justice.

His silence in the face of misconduct is not neutrality — it is complicity. As such, Benson is directly accountable for the damage caused by his firm’s coordinated campaign and will be named accordingly in all bar complaints, RICO filings, and administrative actions for his role in leading a law firm that acted with calculated malice and systemic disregard for the rule of law.

Under Benson’s leadership, BHFS attorneys have:

• Filed knowingly false declarations and motions intended to mislead courts and undermine my legal filings;

• Leveraged the firm’s power to influence judicial proceedings in both Nevada and California, including actions that appear to benefit from improper relationships with sitting judges;

• Orchestrated a campaign of digital suppression, by working in concert with outside parties (including Shein and Name.com) to takedown my protest websites without due process or lawful justification.

Despite my direct notices and public filings documenting this misconduct, Benson has taken no steps to investigate or correct these abuses, signaling either deliberate indifference or active complicity. His silence has functioned as protection for attorneys engaging in what I believe to be civil rights violations, abuse of process, and acts of digital censorship in retaliation for my protected speech and lawful court activity.

By failing to uphold the ethical standards expected of a managing partner, Richard Benson has become an enabler of a broader scheme to obstruct justice and suppress dissent, and should be held accountable alongside those acting under his authority.