Washington, DC Lawyers

David S. Stein, the principal attorney, earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, graduating with honors. Attorney Stein obtained his Juris Doctor, (J.D.) from the prestigious George Washington National Law Center, active in the academic AIPLA Journal and graduating at the top of his class. He worked as a summer associate in the prominent law firm of Holland & Knight and intern-clerked with the Honorable Judge Evelyn Queen in the District of Columbia Superior Court, in both criminal and civil calendars. Following graduation from law school, Attorney Stein took a position...

I am law professional working in IRS representation and tax problem resolution. My firm has over 100 years of combined experience in dealing with the IRS and their collection process. Your tax situation will be thoroughly analyzed by our team that includes a tax attorney and tax professionals, and together we will decide the best course of action to help solve your IRS problems - FOR GOOD!

Attorney Hanover has been working in the legal arena since graduating with double Master Degrees in Employment Law (HR) and Union Law (Industrial Relations) in 1996. He obtained his JD from the University of the District of Columbia in 2008 and maintains a vibrant practice focusing on immigration, bankruptcy, criminal defense, and business law. In a twist he never saw coming, Mr. Hanover has become accomplished at defending gang members and individuals convicted of drug offenses in immigration court. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Hanover also owns an IT consulting company, HHC, Inc. based in Fairfax, VA. This company...

With over two decades of experience working in the federal government – including extensive experience as a senior attorney and member of the Senior Executive Service (SES) – Cheri is a vital component of Tully Rinckey PLLC’s nationally recognized federal labor and employment practice group. Additionally, as a former panel member of the Air Force Board for Correction of Military Records (BCMR), she bolsters the firm’s military law practice group by assisting with the removal of injustices from and the correction of errors in service military records.

As Managing Partner of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, Cheri oversees all federal sector...

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Roxann has 23 years of municipal law experience. She worked for the City of Dallas for 14 years as an Executive Assistant City Attorney. She also served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for 8 years and won national awards from the U.S. Department of Justice for her work to improve cities and reduce violent gun crime. After serving Dallas, she served as Harlingen City Attorney for 4 years. Roxann offices in San Antonio and now serves cities throughout Texas. Having lectured at 40+ national conferences all across America on municipal law -- she is known as an innovator, collaborator,...

Principal at SL Global Partners, an international consortium of corporate finance attorneys. Areas of specialization include: Global Capital Markets, Cross-Border Transactions, Islamic Finance & Alternative Investment Structures, FinTech, International Regimes, SEC Regulations and Corporate Governance.

Prior experience practicing over a decade at AMLaw 50 Firms in DC, London, Dubai and Shanghai, completing cross-border transactions, international securities offerings, private placements and public offerings on foreign exchanges in Europe, the Middle East and Asia and SEC-registered offering on the NYSE and NASDAQ, . Advisory Board Member to the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).

A key player on a number of trade journal awarded...

Founding partner Li Weng works in Rockville Law Group LLC’s practice areas of estate planning, family law, and immigration. Li brings a background of over 6 years in estate planning, anticorruption, and trade matters, as well as transnational practice experience. Over several years, Li advised multinational companies undergoing internal and SEC investigations on potential violations by the companies’ subsidiaries of anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In addition, she represented companies during ITC investigations of antidumping and countervailing duty matters. Most recently, Li was employed with the Rockville, MD firm of Altman and Associates, where she helped the...

Dedicated to fighting discrimination in the workplace, Stephanie has spent her entire career helping public and private sector employees overcome unlawful personnel actions based on factors such as their race, sex, national origin, disability, military service, and age. As an Associate at Tully Rinckey PLLC, she concentrates her practice on federal labor and employment law, routinely representing employees before United States District Courts, Appeals Courts, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). She has extensive experience with cases involving violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Rehabilitation...

Sat Nam Khalsa's mission is centered on service: he is dedicated to helping clients resolve difficult problems with excellence and integrity. His clients include individuals, families, small businesses, and nonprofits. Sat Nam Khalsa practices tax and business law, estate planning and probate, and non-adversarial family law. In his tax practice, Sat Nam represents individuals and organizations seeking to resolve tax controversies with the IRS and state and local tax authorities. He also represents clients litigating tax disputes in Federal and State courts. Sat Nam’s work for business clients, nonprofits and tax-exempt organizations includes advice related to entity formation and...

Richard S. Frankowski is the owner of The Frankowski Firm, LLC based in Birmingham, Alabama and Incline Village, Nevada. Mr. Frankowski has represented hundreds of investors around the country in FINRA arbitrations and in court. His practice focuses on stock broker fraud, consumer class actions, and direct and derivative shareholder litigation. He is an AV Preeminent-rated attorney by Martindale Hubbell and is a member of the Alabama and Florida Bars, as well as a member of the American Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, and National Trial Lawyers. Mr. Frankowski co-authored The Practitioner's Guide to...

You spend more waking hours at your workplace than you do anywhere else. So when you face discrimination, harassment, or retaliation at work, it affects every part of your life. When your employer fires you for an illegal reason after you've given years of dedicated service to that employer, it is a devastating and humiliating insult to you as a person.

I chose to become an employment law attorney, and chose to represent employees facing discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination, because I know how important your career is to your life and to your family. I have the skills and...

Lynne Bernabei has been litigating whistleblower cases, employment discrimination, and civil rights cases for over thirty years. She is a named and founding partner of Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC in Washington, DC, where she handles discrimination cases across the United States.

Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC, is nationally recognized for expertise in whistleblower law, employment discrimination law, sexual harassment law, civil rights and civil liberties matters and retaliation claims under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. We are deeply committed to working for the public interest by protecting the rights of women and minorities and those whose disclosures shed light on matters of public safety...

I represent individuals and businesses across the country in a variety of civil litigation disputes against large corporations. My practice areas include antitrust litigation (e.g., price-fixing, customer allocation), civil litigation, consumer protection, business tort, and commercial litigation, including class actions, and antitrust counseling.

My small firm -- Kotchen & Low LLP -- aims to achieve the highest caliber legal representation while offering clients greater efficiency and more personalized attention than larger firms.

Before co-founding Kotchen & Low LLP, I was: a law clerk for Judge Tacha of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, a research attorney for...

Dan Meyer has dedicated more than 25 years of service to the field of Federal Employment and National Security law as both a practicing attorney and federal investigator and senior executive. Throughout three Presidential administrations, Dan promoted the federal whistleblowing mission and its related policy and statutes. His first major case was before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit protecting Rhode Island State employees suspended and terminated in an act of retaliation. Later, as the Intelligence Committee’s (IC) foremost whistleblowing subject-matter expert from 2013 to 2017, he served as the Executive Director for Intelligence Community Whistleblowing &...

Victoria Kuzmina is the founder and principal attorney at the Law Offices of Victoria V. Kuzmina in Washington, DC. Attorney Kuzmina has successfully handled a wide variety of immigration cases, including family-based immigration, employment and investment-based immigration, as well as all types of work visas.

Attorney Kuzmina has worked with entrepreneurs, IT professionals, medical field professionals, scientists, business owners, nonprofits as well as investors. Attorney Kuzmina has also assisted athletes and coaches with EB-1A green cards, and O and P work visas.

Ms. Kuzmina personally handles all cases from start to finish and is always accessible to her clients. ...

Christopher M. Klug, is the founder and principal at Klug Law Office PLLC. Atty. Klug also an international tax attorney, represents clients with domestic and international taxation, tax controversy, corporate/business planning, cross-border transactions, international and domestic estate planning, and trust administration. Prior to founding Klug Law Firm PLLC, Atty. Klug worked at boutique firms that focused in international and domestic tax, business planning, and estate planning.

I concentrate my practice on secured and unsecured credit transactions, mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings, ongoing securities law requirements of public companies and other general corporate matters.

I am a solutions-oriented, service provider with a background in real estate and business law. Prior to law school, I worked in real estate sales, property management, and investments. Throughout law school, my focus was on real estate and business. As a legal professional, I have held positions as an attorney providing services to the low-income and as a judicial law clerk working for a trial court judge providing research, legal drafts, and recommendations. Now, as a legal professional at Woehrle Dahlberg Jones Yao, I supplement my knowledge and experience with those in the firm to...

David Numrych has practiced law for more than twenty (20) years. He is licensed in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Through his practice, he is able to provide guidance on handling claims and civil suits that overlap these multiple jurisdictions. Mr. Numrych represents insurance carriers in defense of civil litigation and of workers' compensation cases. He also has represented professionals accused of negligence in malpractice cases. His experience includes the representation of national corporations with injured workers in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, involving automobile, truck, airplane, and maritime personal injury cases. Mr. Numrych also...

Jonathan C. Puth is a founding member of Correia & Puth and an advocate for the civil rights of employees. Mr. Puth represents targets of sexual harassment, workplace discrimination, whistleblower retaliation, and employees with claims for wages, commissions, and contract rights. Mr. Puth represents transgender employees subjected to workplace discrimination and others facing discrimination and retaliation because of who they are. Mr. Puth also negotiates severance agreements and employment contracts, and severance negotiations. Mr. Puth served as counsel to the plaintiff class in Hartman v. Powell, a gender discrimination class that won the largest employment discrimination award...

Gina N. Dennis is the Chief Executive Officer of Relerience, an international green consulting company. Gina is a licensed attorney and a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED AP) Accredited Professional (LEED AP). Gina has over ten (10) combined years of experience in areas of green buildings, environmental regulations, energy regulations, real estate development, construction, and commercial leases.

I provide custom-tailored legal and business-oriented solutions to the legal challenges that companies face when doing business internationally. Providing services since April 2003, we bring precision, thoroughness, and passion to our work, making us a trustworthy business partner. I enjoy helping individuals and companies, no matter their size, to maximize their opportunities in the global marketplace while minimizing and managing their risks -

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Shan’s professional and personal background gives him a unique understanding of academic institutions and the criminal justice system. A former federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., he is at home in D.C. Courts and very familiar with all of the Washington, D.C. law enforcement agencies, especially the Metropolitan Police Department. His parents were university professors so he grew up in a university environment. He understands the mindset of academic institutions. As a prosecutor, he supervised in the misdemeanor crime section. This is the section of the Washington, D.C. prosecutor’s office that handles most college student cases....

WAYNE N. OUTTEN is founding and managing partner of Outten & Golden LLP. His practice focuses exclusively on representing individuals in all areas of employment law. He co-chairs the firm’s Executives and Professionals and Whistleblower Retaliation Practice Groups. Mr. Outten’s practice focuses on representing high-level employees and professionals in all aspects of their employment, including negotiation of employment, compensation, and severance agreements. He is the author of the “Representing the Executive” chapter in Executive Compensation (BNA Books). His practice includes representing employees in multinational employment contexts, including expatriate and seconded employees. Mr. Outten was selected by his peers...

Scott Godes focuses on representing corporate policyholders regarding insurance coverage issues. He is an experienced litigator who has extensive experience in trying complex insurance coverage disputes, including class actions, in state, federal, bankruptcy, and appellate courts, as well as in commercial arbitrations.

JAMES A. GALE is a founding member of the firm. He is a registered patent attorney who focuses on matters particular to intellectual property counseling and litigation. Mr. Gale has represented clients in cases involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, unfair competition, covenants not to compete, theft of trade secrets and internet disputes. He has appeared in over 260 federal cases in more than 48 Federal District Courts, as well as handled hundreds of injunctions in over 35 different states around the nation. Mr. Gale’s work and work ethics have always told a lot about his character. An accomplished intellectual property...

Dr. Liliana Di Nola-Baron is an experienced patent attorney and scientist, and a former patent examiner at the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Liliana knows how to draft patent applications with valuable claims in a broad spectrum of technologies, including drugs, large and small molecule pharmaceuticals, genetics, immunology, medical and diagnostic methods and devices, cannabinoids, food, biochemistry, molecular biology, agriculture, biotechnology, mechanical devices and transportation system software Thanks to her rich scientific and legal experience, Liliana has successfully prosecuted and obtained a vast number of patents for her clients. She also performs due diligence searches and analysis, and prepares legal...

Commercial real estate, trade secrets and technology transactions and litigation, including contracts, leases (ground, air rights, and space), financings, LLC operating agreements and disputes, teaming and licensing agreements, subcontracts, non-competes, reciprocal easements and other types of sharing agreements, and outsourcing. District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia

Gene received his B.S. degree in Material Science from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Columbia University. He received his J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center and served as Senior Editor for the Georgetown Journal on Poverty and Policy. Through competitive selection processes, Gene was selected as a Super Lawyers Rising Star (2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 - (DC/VA), 2014 (DC)(Law & Politics Magazine) and as Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite (Taxes, Estates and Trusts, 2008, 2010, & 2013). Featured on Fox News and other media outlets, he also is an accredited attorney for...

Matt Kaiser has represented hundreds of clients through some of the most difficult times in their lives. Matt has represented corporate executives and folks living on the streets. He has represented large corporations in sophisticated civil cases, and individuals in less complicated matters. He has defended people accused of almost every kind of federal crime including tax evasion, bribery, fraud, drug dealing, arson, weapons charges, and violating export controls. Matt has helped people with trials, appeals, and post conviction petitions, and he has represented people and corporations in both state and federal courts. Matt Kaiser is a magna cum laude graduate of...

I have nine years of experience as an Immigration Attorney. Additionally, I have a very strong knowledge of employment law and the connection between immigration and Federal and State employment regulations. While I have not counted exactly how many immigration cases I have handled, reviewed, consulted with or been associated with, I estimate that the number is easily in the thousands. Based on this experience there is rarely a situation that I have not seen before. I am AV rated perfect “5.0”, Avvo rated “Superb”, Avvo Client choice awards 2011, 2012, 2013, “Rising Star” Orlando Style Magazine, Lead Counsel Rated...

Craig Miller manages Simeone & Miller's litigation division. Mr. Miller has appeared on the nationally broadcasted "The Sam Donaldson Radio Show - Live in America" as well as on the nationally syndicated "The BQ View." His cases have been the subject of stories in The Washington Post and the local news. He has also been invited to appear on "The Dr. Phil Show" and "The John Walsh Show." He is an AV Preeminent Rated Attorney (5.0 out of 5.0), the highest rating from Martindale-Hubbell for legal skill and ethics. In addition, he was chosen in 2012 as a SuperLawyer for...

Dionna Maria Lewis is a Labor & Employment Associate at the Washington, D.C. office of The Fay Law Group PLLC, where she manages an active litigation docket of nationwide and local cases in all areas of employment and employment-related disputes. Prior to joining the Fay Law Group PLLC, Ms. Lewis completed a judicial clerkship with the Honorable John F. McCabe, Jr. at the D.C. Superior Court and was fair lending counsel at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in the Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity. At the CFPB, Ms. Lewis investigated fair lending risks and civil...

David Sanford is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP. He has recovered more than $1 billion for individual clients and the United States government since 2004. Mr. Sanford represents C-suite executives, as well as non-managerial, hourly employees throughout the United States. David has served as lead counsel in more than 50 class actions and numerous qui tam fraud cases around the country. David has represented more than 100 General Counsel and attorneys (in house and outside counsel) in contract disputes, employment matters, and severance packages. David is currently class counsel in gender discrimination cases...

Federal Criminal Defense, INTERPOL Red Notice Removal, International Extradition Defense, OFAC SDN Sanctions List Removal, and US Seizure of Non-Resident, Foreign-Owned Assets. Because we have experience in dealing with INTERPOL, our firm understands the inter-relationship that INTERPOL's "Red Notice" brings to this equation. The firm has several offices throughout the United States and personally handles the cases.