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Ralph A. Castelli Jr.
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Biography
Ralph Castelli’s practice involves him in a wide variety of business planning and structuring situations, exit planning, shareholder and partner separations and the entire gamut of real estate and business transactions. In addition, Mr. Castelli successfully served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Kemp Klein for 26 years.
Mr. Castelli represents many closely-held businesses and he has developed expertise in transactions involving business expansion or reduction, loan transactions, acquisitions and sales, and reorganizations. Due to the nature of his practice and clientele, he has become adept at representing family businesses and addressing complex issues that the intertwining of family and business often entail.
Mr. Castelli is a board member of the Kemp Klein Foundation which sponsors Common Ground and many other local and national charitable causes.
Mr. Castelli served as Mayor of the City of Pleasant Ridge for 20 years and on the City Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals. Also, he served on the Pleasant Ridge Planning Commission from 1985 to 1988, including a term as chair. He was elected to the Pleasant Ridge City Commission in 1988. He was a member, and past president, of the South Oakland County Mayor’s Association and was a past member of the Board of Directors of the Woodward Avenue Action Association.
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Licensed in Michigan for 48 years
State: Michigan
Acquired: 1977
No misconduct found
Location
Kemp Klein Law Firm
201 W Big Beaver Rd Ste 600, Troy, MI, 48084-4161
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Experience
Honors
2025
Top Attorney - Avvo Rating: 10.0 (Superb), Martindale-Avvo
2025
Top Lawyers, dbusiness
2025
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2024
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2024
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®
2024
Super Lawyer, Thomson Reuters
2023
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®
2023
Super Lawyer, Thomson Reuters
2023
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2022
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®
2022
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2022
Super Lawyer, Thomson Reuters
2021
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®
2021
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2021
Super Lawyer, Thomson Reuters
2020
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®
2020
Super Lawyer, Thomson Reuters
2020
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2019
Best Lawyer, Texas Best Lawyers
2019
Super Lawyer, Thomson Reuters
2019
Super Lawyer, Martindale-Hubbell®
2019
Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers in America
2018
Leaders in Law, Michigan Lawyers Weekly
2018
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®
2018
Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2018
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2017
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®
2017
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2017
Super Lawyer, Thomson Reuters
2016
AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®
2016
Super Lawyer, Thomson Reuters
2016
Best Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America
2016
Top Lawyers, DBusiness
2015
Top Lawyers, DBusiness
2010
Top Lawyers, DBusiness
Work Experience
1987 - Present
Attorney, Kemp Klein Law Firm
1993 - 2013
Mayor, City of Pleasant Ridge, MI
1988 - 1993
City Commissioner, City of Pleasant Ridge, MI
1985 - 1988
Planning Commissioner, City of Pleasant Ridge, MI
1977 - 1987
Attorney, Umphrey and Castelli
Associations
2022 - Present
Kemp Klein FoundationDirector
2008 - Present
Oakland County Bar FoundationLife Fellow
1977 - Present
State Bar of MichiganMember
1977 - Present
American Bar AssociationMember
1977 - Present
Oakland County Bar AssociationMember
2011 - 2016
Woodward Avenue Action AssociationDirector
1994 - 2022
Kemp Klein FoundationPresident
1993 - 2013
South Oakland County Mayor’s AssociationPresident
Education
1977
Wayne State University
J.D.
1974
Michigan State University
B.A.
Speaking Engagements
2015
Service Reception
Kemp Klein Law Firm Celebrates 45 Years of Service
2008
Mackinac Center of Public Policy
Authors Reception
2003
Oakland Literacy Council Ex Libris
Fundraising for Literacy
Publications
2024
Kemp Klein Commentator
Who's In Your Wallet?
2023
Kemp Klein Commentator
IRS Viewpoint of the Tax Treatment of Crowdfunding
2019
Kemp Klein Commentator
Because Language Matters - Sixth Circut Reverses Tax and Applies the Language of the Code
2015
Oakland County Times
Pleasant Ridge Celebrates 25th Birthday of I-696 (Featured)
2011
Kemp Klein Commentator
The "Super Committee" and its Effects
2009
Michigan Super Lawyers Magazine
You Can Call Him Mayor (Featured)
2008
Michigan Privatization Report
The Changing Face of the Delivery of City Services
2007
Crain's Detroit Business
Pleasant Ridge (Featured)
2006
Kemp Klein Commentator
A Step by Step Guide to Selling Your Business
2003
Kemp Klein Commentator
Cyber Squatting Damages Affirmed
2003
Kemp Klein Commenetator
Is Your Worker an Independent Contractor or Employee?
1993
Detroit Free Press
Good Life Endures in Pleasant Ridge (Featured)
Languages
English