<p>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. 
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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.
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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