About Richard Honaker

Richard Honaker has been recognized for over 40 years as one of Wyoming’s most effective trial lawyers. Mr. Honaker is one of the few trial lawyers who has won multiple acquittals for criminal defendants in first-degree murder cases and also has won multiple judgments and settlements for civil plaintiffs in excess of one million dollars.

Mr. Honaker’s first million-dollar recovery occurred in 1990 in a products liability case against Michelin Tire Corporation and Fletcher Enterprises. Most recently, Mr. Honaker, associated with Meyer, Shaffer & Stepans, secured one of the largest burn injury recoveries in the history of oil field explosion and fire litigation. Mr. Honaker’s recoveries have included a $4.9 million sham peer review recovery against a hospital, multiple $1 million plus recoveries against trucking companies, a $5.1 million recovery in a liquefied petroleum gas case, and recoveries of $2.375 million and $8.625 million in railroad accident cases.