Dick Prout graduated from Brown University in 1962 and the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1965. After a year of practice in Massachusetts and service in the Navy Judge Advocate Corps, he joined the firm in Ballard in 1969. Dick's practice concentrates on corporations and limited liability companies (including formation, maintenance, purchases, sales, and member/shareholder agreements), fishing and maritime matters, trusts, wills, powers of attorney, community property agreements, and prenuptial agreements.