About Lawrence M.

Lawrence M. Kasen has practiced law throughout more than one regions of the United States for numerous many years. He earned a J.D. from Howard University School of Law in 1979, where he studied American Indian Law and Natural Resources Law. Earlier he spent a yr on the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1978 as an Indian and Natural Resources Law fellow. He holds a B.A. from Rutgers University in Native American Studies and Anthropology, with a minor in English.

His early work combined public interest and authorities service. In 1978 he served as a summer law clerk in the Solicitor’s Office of Indian Affairs on the U.S. Department of the Interior. The following yr he labored on the Indian table for Legal Aid Society in Winnebago, Nebraska. Those positions set a throughline in his career: tribal regulation and natural assets things threaded thru later work.

Kasen moved into personal practice within the early 1980s. He labored as a tribal lawyer with Shea & Wilkes in Phoenix and started his first solo practice in 1981. He returned to large firm work as a senior associate dealing with legal rights and commercial litigation in Blank Rome’s Miami workplace in 1983, and later became a partner at Barnett & Alagia in 1987. By the end of the decade he had resumed solo practice in Miami at Kasen Law Office, P.A., where civil rights, immigration and commercial cases occupied his docket.

The 1990s brought geographic and expert shifts. He operated an espresso residence and restaurant in Charleston for a time, and in 1997 reestablished a practice in Charleston targeting civil rights, commercial litigation and immigration. He further an actual estate license and served as Broker in Charge beneath the South Carolina Real Estate Commission. In 2004 he indexed The Kasen Law Office, LLC in Summerville/Charleston as a managing lawyer, and in 2010 he opened The Kasen Law Office, PLLC in Flushing/New York City where he additionally keeps managing lawyer duties.

Kasen holds admission in multiple jurisdictions, which includes Florida, Arizona, Maine, South Carolina, New York and Nebraska, and has memberships extending to the American Bar Association. His case work has included immigration and felony things, civil rights litigation, commercial disputes and matters arising from tribal or natural resources contexts. He has combined court work, solo practice control and coffee enterprise possession over a long profession.

He presently keeps practices through The Kasen Law Office, PLLC in Flushing/New York City and The Kasen Law Office, LLC in South Carolina, handling immigration, felony defense, legal rights and related actual property things.

Education

University of New Mexico

Third Year Law Student - Indian and Natural Resources Law Fellowship - University of New Mexico School of Law | Indian Law and Natural Resources Law

1978

Howard University School of Law

J.D. (1979) | American Indian Law, Natural Resources Law

1976

Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway

B.A. (1976) | Native American Studies, Anthropology, Minor - English

1972

Languages

English (Spoken, Written)

Experience

Managing Lawyer, has membership, Immigration and Criminal Law Boutique

The Kasen Law Office, PLLC, Flushing/New York City, NY
2010

Law Office Managing Lawyer/has membership

The Kasen Law Office, LLC, Summerville/Charleston, SC
2004

Sole Practitioner, Civil Rights, Commercial Litigation and Immigration Practitioner

Kasen Law Office, Charleston, SC
1997

Coffee House & Restaurant Proprietor

Moose Mountain Coffee & Tea Co., Inc., Charleston, SC
1995

Sole Practitioner, Civil Rights, Commercial Litigation and Immigration Practitioner

Kasen Law Office, P.A., Miami, Florida
1989

Partner, Civil Rights, Immigration, and Commercial Litigation

Barnett & Alagia, P.A. - Miami, Florida
1987

Senior Associate Lawyer - Civil Rights and Commercial Litigation

Blank, Rome, Comiskey & McCauley, P.A., MIami, Florida Office
1983

Sole Practitioner

Kasen Law Office
1981

Tribal Lawyer, Associate Lawyer

Shea & Wilkes, P.A. - Phoeniix, Arizona
1981

Indian Desk Lawyer

Legal Aid Society, Inc. - Winnebago, Nebraska
1979

Summer Law Clerk

U.S. Department of Interior - Solicitors Office, Indian Affairs
1978

Accepted Jurisdictions

Florida
Arizona
Maine
South Carolina
New York
4th Circuit
Nebraska

Certifications & Awards

Real Estate Broker - Broker in Charge

South Carolina Real Estate Commission

Professional Associations

South Carolina Real Estate Commission

Broker in Charge 2003 - Current

South Carolina Bar

has membership 1997 - Current

Florida State Bar

has membership 1983 - Current

Maine State Bar

has membership 1982 - Current

American Bar Association

has membership 1979 - Current

Nebraska State Bar Association

has membership 1979 - Current

Flowertown Players Association

Board of Directors - has membership/President of Board 2006 - 2009

Flowertown Players Theatre

has membership/President Board of Directors 2006 - 2009

Arizona State Bar

has membership 1981 - 1997