Meet Casey

Casey Berman graduated Hastings in 1999 and after a few years in the legal field left law behind to create a number of different enterprises.

The Hastings career services office asked him to speak about his professional experience in branching out from the law in July 2009 during its summer speaking series.  After speaking to a packed room of lawyers and law students, Casey hatched another business idea – Leave Law Behind.

In addition to LLB, Casey currently works with his father at their boutique Investment Banking firm, Berman Capital (www.bermancap.com) and with Schireson Associates (www.schireson.com), a technology focused market research and consulting firm.  He previously served as Vice President of Operations for Zoomedia (www.zoomedia.com), a communications and marketing agency.  Prior to Zoomedia, Casey served for three and half years as Vice President of Operations and In-House Counsel at Workshare (www.workshare.com), a document comparison, collaboration and security software company.  From 2000 to 2001, he served as Business Development Associate and Legal Affairs Manager for I-Impact, an Israeli data-warehousing and predictive analytics start-up.

In December of 2006, Casey sold his first company, Gytha Mander (www.gythamander.com), a high fashion men’s clothing line, to Revel Industries.

He and his wife Lillian recently founded Kid Friendly San Francisco (www.kidfriendlysf.com), a local site that provides San Francisco parents and caregivers with a practical, low-cost to no-cost guide of “kid friendly” activities and places to go with your children in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Casey holds a BA in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley and a JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.  He is licensed by the State Bar of California and holds the Series 7 and 63 security licenses.