Richard L. Fox

Richard L. Fox is an American author and attorney, best known for his work with large estates, and philanthropic planning.

Fox currently serves as the Founding Partner at The Law Offices of Richard L. Fox. He went on to graduate with an LLM from New York University. Later in his career at Dilworth Paxson, Fox became the head of the firm's philanthropic and non-profit practice. He was named to Worth magazine's list of "Top 100 attorneys in the country representing affluent families and individuals". At Dilworth, Fox served as one of billionaire Walter Annenberg's most-trusted attorneys and he continues to serve as an attorney for the Annenberg Foundation.

In 2005, Judge William C. Koch Jr. cited an article written by Fox in the majority opinion in the case of Tennessee Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy v. Vanderbilt University. Fox has also served as an advisor to the University of Miami School of Law's Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, a conference for estate planning professionals. He chaired the Chartered Adviser in Philanthropy Program at The American College of Financial Services from 2008 to 2010. A year later, in 2016, Fox led a project where H.F. Lenfest donated the Philadelphia Media Network, which owns The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philly.com to The Philadelphia Foundation. Lenfest described Fox as the "architect of the deal." Following the restructuring of the Philadelphia Media Network, Fox began advising other local newspapers to restructure as non-profits and serves as counsel to The Philadelphia Foundation. In 2021, he worked with Report for America to help develop a bipartisan component in the Build Back Better Act to provide tax credits for local newspapers.

Writings Fox is the author of Charitable Giving: Taxation, Planning, and Strategies, a legal treatise, published in 2008, on charitable giving and retirement plans.

He is also a co-author of the 2012 book, Preserving a Home for Veterans, which chronicles Fox and others, who took on the Department of Veterans Affairs for leasing parts of property, donated to veterans, to private entities such as oil drillers.

Fox sits on the advisory board and serves as an author for Estate Planning magazine, which is published by Thomson Reuters. He is also a frequent legal commentator for Bloomberg News, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Leimberg Information Services. In addition, he has provided legal commentary to The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and CNBC.