About Cari B.
Cari B. Rincker has built a career at the intersection of agriculture and the law. She arrived in law after years in agricultural science and animal nutrition. She combines technical knowledge of livestock production with courtroom and policy experience.
Her academic path began at Lake Land College, where she earned an A.S. in Agriculture in 1998. She went on to Texas A&M University and completed a B.S. in Animal Science in 2000. A master’s degree in Beef Cattle Nutrition followed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. She earned her J.D. from Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in 2005.
Early career posts mixed research, policy and public interest work. She interned at the American Simmental Association and later served as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Illinois. She held internships with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Los Angeles Public Counsel and the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. After law school she worked as a law clerk at SimmonsCooper, LLC and spent time advising the Permanent Mission of the Marshall Islands to the United Nations. In 2006 she consulted for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
She moved into private practice and advocacy in the late 2000s. Rincker served as an associate at Budd Falen Law Offices in 2008. The next year she opened Rincker Law, PLLC and became the firm’s principal lawyer. The firm maintains offices in New York and Illinois.
Rincker holds bar admission in multiple jurisdictions, including the District of Columbia, New York, Connecticut, Illinois, Texas and New Jersey. She is an active participant in professional organizations across agriculture and law. She has chaired the ABA General Practice Solo & Small Firm Division’s Agriculture Law Committee and took on founding leadership as president of New York Agri-Women. Her involvement with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association spans several committees, and she participates in state and national bar association committees on animal law, agriculture and rural issues.
Her practice draws on both scientific training and legal experience. She handles matters that touch agriculture policy, livestock and animal issues, property rights, environmental management and related regulatory concerns. She represents clients from individual producers to organizations and works from Rincker Law’s New York and Illinois offices. Her current practice centers on agricultural law, food law and animal law.
