Richard Schwarzstein

Richard J. Schwarzstein is an attorney who has lived in Laguna Beach, with his family, since 1974, and has law offices in Newport Beach. He was born in Yonkers, N.Y, received an AB from Columbia College and a JD from Harvard Law School, and practiced law, as a partner in a large international NYC law firm, before moving to California.

His legal practice involves corporate and international law, and he has represented sports associations and nonprofit organizations. He is a Trustee of the Laguna Art Museum and the Hutchins Consort, and was, for many years, an officer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Philharmonic Society of Orange County. He is helping to organize the Laguna Beach Sister Cities corporation, and he helped with the LCAD/Florence Academy contract.

He is married to Sande Adsley, an artist who was born in Denver. They met when Sande was an art student at the Museum School/University of Mass, in Boston. After art school, she worked at Terry Toons, a N. Y. animation studio. Sande has worked in many media, but now concentrates on silver and glass jewelry and art glass. Sande took art classes at LCAD, before it was accredited. They have collected naïve art, including paintings and sculpture from Haiti, where they owned an art gallery with a partner, for may years. They live in an old Spanish style home in Laguna. They have three daughters, Cindy, Alisa and Amy. Cindy and her son, and Alisa and her husband, Ian, and twin sons live in Laguna. Amy and her husband, Denis, live outside of Paris, France, with their three daughters.

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