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CassandraRich

She | Her | Hers

Special Counsel

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

Rochester
P: 585.295.4438
M: 585.737.3913
Overview

Biography

Cassandra primarily concentrates her practice on real estate, representing companies, lenders, 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, Chair 
  • New York State Bar Association

Selected Memberships & Affiliations

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

Representative Experience

  • Represented both purchasers and sellers in acquisitions and sales, including the disposition of title issues and easement rights.
  • Extensive easement experience assisting landowners, municipalities, and land trusts.
  • 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, 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

  • Appraisal Institute – Upstate New York Chapter, “History and Ramifications of Redlining and Racial Covenants in Deeds”
  • 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

Overview Experience Knowledge

Education

  • Wake Forest University School of Law, JD, Cum Laude; Wake Forest Law Review, Member
  • Wake Forest University, BA, Summa Cum Laude

Practices & Industries

Admitted to Practice

  • New York

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