Ed Rucker

Ed Rucker has been a criminal defense lawyer his entire career, trying over 200 jury trials, including 13 death penalty cases. Among his high profile trials, Ed represented John Orr, a Glendale Fire Department arson investigator who was reputed to be the greatest serial arsonist in American history, a trial memorialized in Fire Lover, by Joseph Wambaugh; Laurianne Sconce, the matriarch of the family-owned Lamb Funeral Home, whose trial that was the subject of the book Ashes, by James Joseph; Eddie Nash, a prominent nightclub owner, who was charged in a death penalty case, and who was portrayed in the film, Boogie Nights; and William Harris, a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, who kidnapped Patty Hearst. Ed has received numerous awards, including the L.A. Criminal Bar Association’s “Trial Lawyer of the Year,” and the LA County Bar Association’s “Distinguished Career Award.” He is listed in “Best Lawyers in America,” and was elected to the American Board of Criminal Lawyers.