Gary W. Rich serves as Of Counsel at Marino Finley LLP. He is an attorney with over 40 years of legal, corporate and government experience. He previously founded a firm which focused its practice in the areas of immigration and environmental law.

His firm consulted nationally and internationally with organizations regarding work visas, entry, residency, and citizenship regulations of the United States. Activities included securing labor certifications from the US Department of Labor, filing petitions and applications with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services and liaising with US Embassies and Consulates. He successfully represented National Hockey League (NHL) players with respect to immigration and visa issues.

Gary has engaged in complex environmental litigation. He has joint ventured with nationally renowned plaintiffs firms. He developed and filed two mass tort cases, one for workplace exposure and the other for property damage and medical monitoring. Both ultimately had favorable outcomes. The latter resulted in a $381 million jury verdict against E. I. DuPont which was the largest civil plaintiff verdict in the US in 2007. It remains the largest jury verdict in West Virginia history.

While employed by Saudi Aramco in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Gary led diverse teams in developing and negotiating contracts valued at more than $2 billion for engineering and construction work in Europe, the Middle East, and Japan. He was part of a team that provided oversight relative to the execution of Saudi Aramco’s Capital Program.

As a US Diplomat, Gary was posted to the American Embassy in Germany, where his work took him throughout the former Soviet Union. He established banking relationships and implemented electronic funds transfer (EFT) systems for the Department of State in Russia and the former Soviet Republics. Gary directed the training of local personnel with respect to western business practices in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Azerbaijan.