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 after 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 US 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 nonprofit educational foundations, Creative Initiative and Beyond War.
Upon 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.