Washington DC Lawyers

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).

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.

His friends call him Jay and you can too. He works hard to assist young professionals and small business owners achieve peace of mind. Life is busy and many times important tasks slide down the to do list and do not get accomplished. He focuses on addressing those very important planning tasks. He has been counseling clients since 2010 on how to plan for their families, their businesses and their legacies. Jay has learned the art of relational law and being a personal family lawyer, he does things differently. Your relationship with your lawyer should not be transactional. It should...

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...

Amy has handled a variety of cases over the years, including criminal matters, such as fraud, money laundering, criminal tax evasion and fraud, racketeering, civil disorder, obstruction of justice, hate crimes, theft of governmental information, threats, computer crimes, and firearms crimes. Her primary practice areas are white collar and national security law.

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).

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....