ABOUT US
I was raised in a small coal mining town in Eastern Pennsylvania and worked seven days a week in our family’s corner grocery store from the age of 8 until I left for college and, afterwards, when home on visits. Thanks to scholarships and summer manual labor jobs in foundries, I was able to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and received my Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from MIT in 1973 and then my law degree from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1976. I have never forgotten the inherent dignity and value of hard work, regardless of the job.
I have lived and practiced in the Central Kenai Peninsula since 1977, first as an attorney for the Kenai Peninsula Borough and then in private legal practice since 1982. I am admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Alaska Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the state and federal trial courts of Alaska. Between 1984 and 1990, I was President of the Kenai Bar Association and later President of the Soldotna Rotary Club from 2017-2018, as well as Rotary Statewide District Governor for Alaska from 2020 – 2021. I served on the Alaska Court System’s committee on electronic evidence. I have been repeatedly rated, most recently in 2008, as “Very High” in legal ability and ethical standards by the respected Martindale national attorney rating service.
Since 1990, I was continuously involved with the American Bar Association, the Alaska Bar Association and other groups as a speaker and author on legal technology and legal practice. I have been personally involved for many years in directly helping local education as a member of the Kenai Peninsula College Council, and by working with Kenai Peninsula students applying to MIT.
I enjoy my family, the outdoors, and flying. I have been an active licensed pilot in Alaska for the past 38 years and have handled a number of aircraft accident cases. Our family remains active in Karate. I received a first degree black belt in Jinen-Ryu Karate, at age 58.
I am also active as a fine arts photographer with 26 solo shows over the past 10 years.
CV/Resume: Joseph Kashi Summary CV.pdf
Joseph Kashi Law Office
205 East Beluga
Soldotna, AK 99669
Phone: 907-260-7732
Cell: 907-398-0480
Email: kashi@alaska.net
