Richard T. McCarty

Senior Counsel, Chevron Americas E&P Litigation

Chevron

Rich McCarty is Senior Counsel with Chevron’s Americas E&P Litigation group, where he is responsible for handling litigations and disputes involving a wide variety of matters for Chevron’s upstream business units. Prior to joining Chevron in July 2024, Rich was a partner in Winston & Strawn LLP’s Houston office, focusing on a wide array of complex commercial, patent, and intellectual property litigation matters. Rich has experience with complex commercial and intellectual property disputes involving a variety of technologies, including oil field services equipment, subsea safety valves, downhole tools, oilfield safety products, hydraulic fracturing technologies, and offshore drilling technologies. Rich also has experience serving as counsel for the Nuclear Utilities Group on Equipment Qualification, providing counseling on legal matters for an industry group encompassing approximately three-quarters of the nuclear power plants in the United States.

Prior to law school, Rich served as a naval officer in the United States Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program. He served on two nuclear submarines, including serving as chief engineer on a fast-attack nuclear powered submarine, USS HYMAN G. RICKOVER (SSN 709). After leaving active duty, Rich continued his career in the Naval Service as a member of the United States Navy Reserve. He retired from the United States Navy at the rank of Commander after over twenty years of service in both the Active and Reserve components.

As a former naval officer in the United States Navy’s Submarine Force, Rich brings to bear extensive and broad technical experience and knowledge to his legal practice, including in chemical, nuclear, and mechanical engineering, which he pairs with a practical, business-oriented approach.