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CassandraRich

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Special Counsel

"Whether completing transactions or solving problems, I enjoy using my technical skills to assist clients."

Overview

Biography

Cassandra primarily concentrates her practice on real estate, representing lenders, companies, individuals, and municipal clients in matters involving financing, restructuring, easements, sales, acquisitions, and leases.

Bar Associations

  • Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys, Member and Former Board Member
  • Monroe County Bar Association, Board of Trustees, President
  • New York State Bar Association

Selected Memberships & Affiliations

  • Barclay Damon Women’s Forum
  • Monroe County Bar Association President’s Commission on Anti-Racism, Member
Experience

Representative Experience

  • Extensive easement experience assisting both landowners and municipalities.
  • Represented multiple lenders in commercial loan transactions involving various business and property types.
  • Assisted on a complex commercial foreclosure involving numerous title issues, a title claim, and the eventual sale of the property.

Prior Experience

  • Boylan Code, Partner

Selected Community Activities

  • National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, Steering Committee Member and Former Board Member

Selected Honors

  • The Best Lawyers in America®: Real Estate Law, 2024
  • Rochester Business Journal, Forty Under 40, 2015; Power 50 Law, 2023
  • Daily Record, Excellence in Law: Up & Coming Attorney Award, 2010; Power 20 Real Estate Law List, 2023, 2024
  • Monroe County Bar Association, President’s Award for Professionalism, 2020
  • Greater Rochester Association for Women Attorneys, President’s Award, 2010
Knowledge

Selected Speaking Engagements

  • Monroe County Bar Association, "The History and Ramifications of Redlining and Racial Covenants in Deeds and What We Can Do to Address Them" Webinar
  • Monroe County Bar Association, "Contracting: COVID-19 – Treating Your Clients’ Commercial Ills Through Contract, Insurance, and Lease Provisions" Webinar

Selected Media

Featured Media

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The New York FY 2025 Budget – CDPAP FIs Under Threat

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Updated Bulletin on Tracking Technologies in the Health Care Industry

We're Growing in DC!

We’re excited to announce Barclay Damon’s combination with Washington DC–based Shapiro, Lifschitz & Schram. SLS’s 10 lawyers, three paralegals, and four administrative staff will join Barclay Damon while maintaining their current office in DC’s central business district. Our clients will benefit from SLS’s corporate, real estate, finance, and construction litigation experience and national energy-industry profile, and their clients from our full range of services.

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