Top Attorney – Raul Casso IV
Laredo, Texas WW/Press/ – Raul Casso IV (Deceased) of Raul Casso IV Law PLLC – Customs and Transportation Law was selected for inclusion into the Top Attorneys of North America 2019-2020 edition.
Raul Casso IV Law PLLC- Customs and Transportation Law provide legal services to clients in Laredo, Texas. The law firm focuses on customs and transportation law, Raul Casso IV Law offers legal assistance to companies involved in international trade with operations in the Port of Laredo –the No. 1 inland port in the USA and fast becoming the capital for transloading and cross docking US-Mexican shipments. Their clients are the importers and exporters for the U.S. and Mexico, customs brokers, freight forwarders, trucking companies, and those involved in warehousing. All are related by the same industry.
At Raul Casso IV Law PLLC, they are there to service your legal needs, there main purpose is to guide their clients in the successful navigation through the legal intricacies found within the framework of federal customs and transportation laws governing the trade community in the USA. Their business philosophy is embodied in timely and accurately counseling their clients where legal services are truly needed.
Over the course of a legal career spanning more than 30 years, Raul Casso IV has gained a wide range of experience in both private and public sectors, and at the federal, state, and local levels of government. He is licensed to practice law in the State of Texas, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, and the United States Court of International Trade. Mr. Casso currently focuses his legal practice on the trade community. He is devoted to serve again in the private sector, dedicating the balance of his professional career to the practice of law in matters of customs, transportation and logistics.
The many services that Mr. Raul Casso provides, are those involving risk management including: guidance in self-reviews of importers/exporters compliance operations under attorney-client privilege; counsel after receipt of an Informed Compliance Letter; advice on prior disclosures of import violations (which can be complex); and the always vital voluntary disclosures.
As an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Casso was one of four lawyers working what was then the busiest federal criminal docket in the U.S.A. Having prosecuted hundreds of cases involving federal drug and immigration laws, bank fraud and money laundering, Casso is the author of “The Successful Prosecution of Drug Smuggling Knowledge Cases—a guide,” which details his unique approach in trying “knowledge cases”, recognized in the field as an especially difficult challenge.
In the civil sphere, Casso enjoyed considerable experience in commercial litigation associated with the Uniform Commercial Code, including numerous matters concerning customs laws such as the seizure of commercial cargo.
As the descendant of an importing/exporting family whose father, of the same name, was a founding partner of International Bonded Warehouses, an international concern based in Laredo, Texas with bonded warehouses and retail outlets spanning the entire U.S./Mexico border from Brownsville, Texas to San Diego, California and every major port in between, he finds himself in a privileged position to work in all its complexity the legal matters related to the trade operations implemented by the many different actors in the great Port of Laredo.
Mr. Casso received his B. A. (1980) and his J. D. (1985) from Southern Methodist University. He is a publisher of four books and is very involved in community services.
