He graduated from Faculty of Law of Universitas Pancasila in 2003. He started out his career as an advocate by joining several law offices, among others, Elza Syarief & Partners. He joined Hendarman & Associates Counsellors at Law, the forerunner of HLF in 2011, and currently strengthens both litigation and non-litigation lawyers team of HLF. He is well experienced in handling legal issues as labor/employment, land, crime and special crime (corruption act) and civil. Riza Sukri Arief, SH is the member of Indonesian Advocates Association (PERADI) and a licensed lawyer to practice in the Indonesian courts.