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Richard M. Betheil

Richard M. Betheil joined Pryor Cashman in 1985 and has been a partner at the firm since 1989. His major practice area is labor and employment law and litigation. Richard has regularly appeared before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and other administrative agencies, and in the federal and state courts on both the trial and appellate levels. A substantial part of Richard’s practice is representing clients in collective bargaining and counseling clients on the full range of labor and employment matters. In recent years, representation of not-for-profit corporations, and in particular cemeteries, has been an increasing part of Richard’s practice. In connection with that practice, he is a director of five cemetery corporations.

Richard is a 1980 graduate of New York University School of Law where he was Order of the Coif and an Arthur Garfield Hays Fellow.  Richard won the Benjamin F. Butler Memorial Prize, the John Norton Pomeroy Prize and the American Jurisprudence Award in Labor Law.

Richard received his M.A. in Economics in 1977 from the New School for Social Research, where he was a Herbert Lehman Fellow. In 1973, Richard graduated from Oberlin College, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and a Senior Scholar. Richard spent a year at the London School of Economics as part of his undergraduate education.

Previous Positions

• Gordon & Shechtman, PC, Associate (1980-85) 

Speaking Engagements

• Speaker, New York State Association of Cemeteries Legal and Political Affairs Conference (2005-06)
• Speaker, Metropolitan Association of Cemeteries (1994-96)

Teaching Positions

• The College of New Rochelle, Economics Instructor (1979)

Professional Affiliations

• New York City Bar Association, Member, Committee on Labor and Employment Law (1986-88)