Cari Rincker

About Cari Rincker

Attorney Cari Rincker is the founder and principal of Rincker Law, PLLC, which has law offices in Champaign and Shelbyville, Illinois, and New York, New York. Nationally ranked as one of the top attorneys in the country, Ms. Rincker has more than 13 years of legal experience, and she provides invaluable counsel and support to a diverse range of clients in Champaign, Shelbyville, Decatur and surrounding regions as well as all across New York City and beyond who have legal needs involving any of the following:

úÿÿÿÿÿÿ Alternative dispute resolution

úÿÿÿÿÿÿ Family law and divorce

úÿÿÿÿÿÿ Animal law

úÿÿÿÿÿÿ Business and commercial law

úÿÿÿÿÿÿ Estate and succession planning

úÿÿÿÿÿÿ Food and agriculture law

úÿÿÿÿÿÿ Intellectual property

úÿÿÿÿÿÿ Real estate law

Along with her impressive legal credentials, Ms. Rincker has extensive academic and professional training in a variety of areas related to agricultural, environmental and animal sciences, and she has earned a reputation as a leading attorney for food and farm law. She has served on the adjunct faculty at Vermont Law School and New York University, where she has facilitated classes on food law, agriculture and environmental law, nutrition, and other subjects. She has also competed in several livestock shows across the country, winning first place in several categories.

Finding equal success in her other practice areas, Ms. Rincker has guided many families through the difficult and complex divorce process, offering effective mediation services to help them make the best-informed decisions and resolve their conflicts and reach favorable agreements in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible. Moreover, she has also assisted numerous business owners with their ongoing operational and transactional needs while helping many others establish their final wishes for the future, protect themselves and their assets, and create a lasting legacy for their heirs.

Honored for her professionalism and service, Ms. Rincker has earned an AV-Preeminent peer review rating* from Martindale-Hubbell and a lead counsel designation along with many other top rankings and endorsements from her peers. She has also received Avvo's Clients' Choice Award for Divorce. Moreover, she received the Excellence in Agriculture Law Award from the American Agriculture Law Association, the Best Livestock Lawyer award from Best of the Barns and the Outstanding Alumni Award from Texas A&M's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

A 2000 graduate of Lake Land College with an associate's degree in agriculture, Ms. Rincker earned her Bachelor of Science in animal science from Texas A&M University in 2002 and her Master of Science in ruminant nutrition from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2002. In 2007, she obtained her Juris Doctor from Pace University's Elisabeth Haub School of Law.

Ms. Rincker is licensed to practice in Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Texas and the District of Columbia, and she is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Northern, Southern and Central districts of Illinois, the Southern and Eastern districts of New York, and the District of New Jersey.

She has served as chair of the American Bar Association's Agriculture Law Committee and is an active member of the New York State Bar Association's Agriculture and Rural Issues Committee. Ms. Rincker is also a member of the Bar Association for the City of New York's Matrimonial Law Committee and the Champaign County Bar Association's Family Law Committee along with her memberships with various other local, state and national legal organizations, including the Family and Divorce Mediation Council of Greater New York and the New York State Dispute Resolution Association, Inc.

*AV?, AV Preeminent?, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished and Martindale-Hubbell Notable are certification marks used under license in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell? is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell? Peer Review Rating? fall into two categories ? legal ability and general ethical standards.