Richard A. Cascarilla

Mr. Cascarilla maintains a practice which emphasizes corporate and business work, bankruptcy, real estate, liquor license transfers, domestic law, general civil and criminal litigation. He earned as associate degree in Business from Lansing Community College in 1974 and a Bachelor of Science degree from Grand Valley State University in 1976. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the Thomas M Cooley Law School in 1980. Mr. Cascarilla served as corporate counsel for a publicly-held company on the west coast for seven years and also served as an officer and member of their board of directors. The corporation was a partner in the construction of a $76 million dollar geothermal power plant near Reno, Nevada. He is a circuit court mediator and has negotiated contracts for professional athletics. Mr. Cascarilla was admitted to the Michigan bar in 1981 and is also licensed to practice before the Michigan Supreme Court, U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan and the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

• Of Counsel

• Nevada Energy Company, General Counsel, 1990 - 1996
• Circuit Court, Mediator, 1997 - Present

• Michigan, 1981
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, 1982
• U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan, 1982
• U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 1986
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1988