Richard H. Casper is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is a member of and the former chair of the firm's Commercial Transactions & Business Counseling Practice. Mr. Casper is also a member of the firm’s Distribution & Franchise Practice. Since 1975, he has acted as a counselor on the full spectrum of commercial matters affecting businesses, including licensing, purchasing/selling, lending, distribution/agency, and bankruptcy. His clients include manufacturers and vendors of a diverse array of goods and services, including agricultural implements, printing, software, tools, electronic equipment, manufacturing equipment, food, and other consumer products. He is also a member of the Food & Beverage Industry Team.
Mr. Casper frequently makes presentations to trade and lawyers groups on commercial contracts, sales law, franchising, distribution, bankruptcy and antitrust law. He has co-authored a chapter on United States distribution law for International Agency and Distribution Agreements (2010), published by LexisNexis, and wrote chapters on commissioned agency agreements in the Commerce Clearing House treatise Product Distribution Law Guide (2009) and the Practical Law Company International Sales and Marketing Practice Manual (2010).
Mr. Casper has been Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system and is listed in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.
A 1972 magna cum laude graduate of Bowdoin College, Mr. Casper received his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Northwestern University in 1975. He was elected to the Order of the Coif, and served on the editorial board of the Northwestern University Law Review.