Washington DC Lawyers

Nabeel Kibria is a District of Columbia criminal defense attorney, practicing in Washington DC, with offices in both the District of Columbia and Virginia. He is a founding partner of Ervin Kibria PLLC.

Mr. Kibria handles all forms of misdemeanors and felonies in the District of Columbia. These include, DUIs, drug offenses, thefts, robbery, assault, gun charges, fraud, unlawful entry and a host of other minor to major charges. Mr. Kibria also handles expungements and records sealing.

Mr. Kibria and his firm provide astute, aggressive and most importantly, affordable representation to all of their clients. It...

Calvin Umezurike, Esq. is the principal attorney of Umez Law Firm PLLC. He is admitted to practice law before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Palau Supreme Court, Executive Office of Immigration Review (Immigration Court), Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) and Court of International Trade (CIT). Calvin is also a Department of Veterans Affairs accredited attorney. He is licensed to practice law before the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Calvin is an active member in good standing of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).

For over three decades, Jerry has litigated civil trial and appellate cases in federal courts throughout the United States. He has been lead appellate counsel in well over 100 appeals in the federal courts and has significant Supreme Court experience. He is one of the very few attorneys who has presented oral argument in all 13 federal circuit courts of appeals.
Jerry earned his J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Dayton School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. He also earned an LL.M. degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in securities and financial...

Judith del Cuadro-Zimmerman has built a reputation as skilled family law attorney known as an effective litigator and strategic negotiator. Devoting her entire legal career to the practice of family law and probate, Judith has extensive experience in a broad range of family law matters. Before founding del Cuadro-Zimmerman, PLLC, Judith spent years working for family law firms in D.C. and Maryland where she handled custody, divorce, probate, and estate planning matters. Judith actively seeks creative solutions for her clients’ needs. She is keenly aware of the emotional toll on families resulting from combative court proceedings and recognizes that the expense...

Panagiotis is an immigration and corporate law attorney. He focuses his practice on representing diverse corporate and private clients, ranging from established leaders in their industries to small start-up companies and individuals.  He counsels his clients on immigration issues (employment, family and investment-based petitions), as well as on corporate matters (formation, registration and business transactions).

I practice excluseively in the area of international trade regulation law, including antidumping, countervailing duties, export control, WTO matters, and especially international enforcement of intellectual property rights, including anticounterfeiting and antidiversion.

My primary motivation is to do right by my clients. My clients trust me with their livelihoods and, at times, with their freedoms. I take their trust seriously and strive to be the best advocate and counsel for them. I am analytical and steadfast in the way I handle a case. Clients usually come to us when they go through some of the most difficult times of their lives. Sometimes, they feel overwhelmed and scared. If I am overwhelmed and scared, they will not feel safe with me. I look at the facts; I look at the problems; and I immediately...

Ruairidh Campbell is an accomplished attorney with over 20 years of international experience offering legal advice and business advisory services to a wide range of clients. He brings a wealth of expertise in corporate and immigration matters with particular strengths in securities, business transactions, financial reporting, public offerings, private placements, corporate governance, internal controls, management and EB-5 investments. His professional career began in the Cairo, Egypt office of Baker & McKenzie from which post Mr. Campbell transitioned to corporate counsel for a cosmetics company in London, England, then to a consultancy in Salt Lake City, Utah. His sojourn in Utah...

Marc Chafetz, Esq. is a prominent lawyer with over thirty years of experience. A graduate of the University of Virginia’s School of Law where he served as an Editor of the Virginia International Law Journal, Mr. Chafetz clerked for Federal District Judge Albert V. Bryan, Jr. Mr. Chafetz then joined the DC office of the large international law firm Fulbright & Jaworski, now Norton Rose Fulbright, where he engaged in complex litigation, including class action, and white collar criminal defense work. Subsequently, he joined the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. While there, he was involved in many prominent cases, including the...

Radi Dennis practices consumer protection law serving District of Columbia and California consumers in debt collection actions, repossession, foreclosure defense, student loans, credit report errors auto fraud, warranty law and lemon law.

Dr. Balta is a member of the New York and District of Columbia Bar and has a PhD in Public Administration and Policy with a focus on Space, Science and Technology from George Washington University, a Law Degree from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, an LLM in Litigation and Dispute Resolution from George Washington University, a Bachelors Degree in International Affairs and a Masters Degree in International Law and Policy from American University in Washington DC. Her culturally, academically and professionally diverse background (having been born and raised in Greece, lived in the United States, England and...

Michael Ellement represents workers and their unions in a variety of matters. He has experience advising clients on workplace conflicts and negotiating settlement agreements, including in cases involving unlawful discrimination, harassment, pay inequity, and whistleblower retaliation. He has litigated cases through trial and on appeal, and has briefed and argued cases in courts across the country.

Prior to joining James & Hoffman, Mr. Ellement was an Associate at Bernabei & Kabat, PLLC where he represented clients in employment and civil rights matters. Before that, he served as an attorney with the National Labor Relations Board in the Office of General Counsel....