Richard J. Drake To Receive Orange County Bar Association Lifetime Achievement Award

April 2011

Richard J. Drake will be honored by the Orange County Bar Association during its Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner on May 12 when he receives the John F. McBride Lifetime Achievement award. The award recognizes an individual attorney who has maintained the highest professional and ethical standards throughout his or her career. Drake is a founder of and partner with Drake, Loeb, Heller, Kennedy, Gogerty, Gaba & Rodd PLLC in New Windsor. He has been practicing law in Orange County for more than fifty years in the areas of real estate and business law. Fellow recipients of this honor include Drake’s longtime partner James R. Loeb, who received this award in 2002.