[2] He previously served as the head of the philanthropic and non-profit practice at the mid-sized firm Dilworth Paxson and a shareholder in the tax department of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney.

[6] In 2005, Judge William C. Koch Jr. cited an article written by Fox in the majority opinion in the case of Tennessee Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy v. Vanderbilt University.

[2] According to Steven Waldman, the president and co-founder of Report for America, there is "probably no lawyer out there who knows more about the intersection of local news and the nonprofit tax code [than Fox].

[13] In 2021, he worked with Report for America to help develop a bipartisan component in the Build Back Better Act to provide tax credits for local newspapers.

[2] In 2022, Fox announced that after six years at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, he would be leaving to start his own solo practice: The Law Offices of Richard L.

[2] In this capacity, Fox is better able to focus on his niche speciality of estate and philanthropic planning while having direct control over fees and hourly rates.

[2] In a statement Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney said that they “anticipate continuing to collaborate with Richard as he moves to this new phase in his career.”[2] Judge Emin Toro writing for the United States Tax Court cited Fox's treatise Charitable Giving: Taxation, Planning, and Strategies in the 2023 case Gerhardt v.