If You Think You Are Beaten You Are.

IF YOU THINK YOU ARE BEATEN YOU ARE. This is the memoir of Richard Hicks—lawyer author activist volunteer world traveler and ardent sailor—written primarily to record for his grandchildren and their progeny the salient events of his life. Born in Cleveland Ohio in 1937 he moved to San Diego California in 1949 following the death of his father. After graduating from the University of California Berkeley as an undergraduate (1959) and from Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law (1962) he spent three years in the U.S. Army as an officer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps before embarking on a twenty-three year career as a business trial lawyer in San Francisco and Los Angeles. For twenty years he and his wife Phyllis—whom he met and married while in college— were actively involved as participants and facilitators with the non-profit educational foundations Creative Initiative and Beyond War.. In retirement he wrote and published seven novels served as pro-bono executive director of Habitat for Humanity-Los Angeles and has helped over 2000 victims of domestic violence as a volunteer attorney at the superior court restraining order clinic operated by the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program. A passionate sailor he has sailed extensively including over thirty-five bareboat charters throughout the Caribbean and Pacific.