About Lawrence M.
Lawrence M. Kasen has practiced law across multiple regions of the United States for several decades. 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 year at 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 mixed public interest and government service. In 1978 he served as a summer law clerk in the Solicitor’s Office of Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior. The following year he worked on the Indian desk for Legal Aid Society in Winnebago, Nebraska. Those positions set a throughline in his career: tribal law and natural resources matters threaded through later work.
Kasen moved into private practice in the early 1980s. He worked as a tribal lawyer with Shea & Wilkes in Phoenix and began his first solo practice in 1981. He returned to larger firm work as a senior associate handling civil rights and commercial litigation in Blank Rome’s Miami office 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 professional shifts. He operated a coffee house and restaurant in Charleston for a time, and in 1997 reestablished a practice in Charleston concentrating on civil rights, commercial litigation and immigration. He added a real estate license and served as Broker in Charge under the South Carolina Real Estate Commission. In 2004 he listed 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 also maintains managing lawyer responsibilities.
Kasen holds admission in multiple jurisdictions, including 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 criminal matters, civil rights litigation, commercial disputes and matters arising from tribal or natural resources contexts. He has combined courtroom work, solo practice management and occasional business ownership over a long career.
He currently maintains practices through The Kasen Law Office, PLLC in Flushing/New York City and The Kasen Law Office, LLC in South Carolina, handling immigration, criminal defense, civil rights and related real estate matters.
