Locke Lord’s Gregory T. Casamento Named Fellow of Litigation Counsel ‎of America

(NEW YORK) May 15, 2024 – Gregory T. Casamento, Co-Chair of Locke Lord’s Litigation Department, Co-Chair of the Firm’s Business Technology Group and former Managing Partner of the Firm’s New York office, has been selected as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America (LCA). Casamento graduated from the Boston University School of Management in 1992, received his Juris Doctor degree from the Boston University School of Law in 1996 and a Command and Staff Diploma from the Naval War College in 2000.

Casamento started his practice as a U.S. Navy Judge Advocate, where he litigated jury trials and administrative discharge boards from 1997-2000. Casamento received the Navy Achievement Medal as a Defense Counsel and the Navy Commendation Medal as a Trial Prosecution Counsel. He joined Locke Lord in 2003, was named a Partner in 2007, and has focused his practice on complex commercial litigation, business litigation and arbitration matters. Many of his clients are in the financial service and fintech areas, and the matters he handles for these clients are bet-the-company class actions and antitrust litigations. As the most senior trial lawyer in the Firm’s New York office, Casamento often represents the Firm’s clients in their most complex matters. His clients include investment, commercial and retail banks, insurance companies, structured finance-related entities, Fintechs and other financial services companies.

For additional information, please see Casamento’s bio.

The LCA is a trial lawyer honorary society composed of less than one-‎half of one percent of American lawyers. Fellowship in the LCA is highly selective and by ‎invitation only. Fellows are selected based upon excellence and accomplishment in litigation, ‎both at the trial and appellate levels, and superior ethical reputation. The LCA is aggressively ‎diverse in its composition. Established as a trial and appellate lawyer honorary society ‎reflecting the American bar in the twenty-first century, the LCA represents the best in law ‎among its membership. The number of Fellowships has been kept at an exclusive limit by ‎design, allowing qualifications, diversity and inclusion to align effectively, with recognition of ‎excellence in litigation across all segments of the bar. Fellows are generally at the partner or ‎shareholder level, or are independent practitioners with recognized experience and ‎accomplishment. In addition, the LCA is dedicated to promoting superior advocacy, ‎professionalism and ethical standards among its Fellows.

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