District of Columbia Lawyers

Labor Law

1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20004

A. Marques Pitre founded the law firm, Pitre & Associates, LLC., in June 2016 with the goal of continuing to fervently represent his clients and provide legal counsel to federal employees, contractors, agencies, unions, and employee associations in federal sector, labor and employment, as well as provide counsel on national security clearance matters. From 2005 through 2015, Marques was a Staff Attorney at the prestigious law firm of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP, in their litigation practice group. His practice focused on managing e-discovery, multi-district complex civil and criminal investigations, and litigation involving several areas of law, including, but not limited to, Antitrust, FFDCA, False Claims Act, Environmental, Stark, and Federal Anti-Kickback Statues. He planned and executed e-discovery offensive and defensive strategies in state and federal litigation. Marques successfully organized, trained, and managed discovery teams comprised of contract attorneys and other legal professionals to ensure a well-executed discovery process, while reducing risks and costs associated with the discovery lifecycle. Marques was also part of a team of attorneys providing guidance on preservation, collection and review of electronically stored information. In addition to his commercial litigation work, Mr. Pitre participated in Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP's Superior Court Pro Bono Program, in which he represented indigent clients in Felony I and Felony II cases. In 2003, Marques worked as a Summer Associate for the City of Chicago, Illinois, in its Employment Litigation Department, where he was tasked to revise the Department’s Equal Employment Rights Manual, which is now known as the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance. Marques earned his Juris Doctorate from the Howard University School of Law in 2005. While there, he was a finalist in the school’s annual Mock Trial Competition and received merit scholarships annually. In 2001, Marques obtained his bachelor’s degree with honors from Illinois State University, Normal, IL. Marques is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, United States District Court for the District of Maryland, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Illinois.

Personal Injury Law

1730 Rhode Island Ave NW #410, Washington, DC 20036, USA

Adam R. Leighton, Esq. ( [email protected] ), an AV-Rated lawyer and Partner at Cohen & Cohen, PC, is a 1997 graduate of the University of Toledo School of Law. In 1993, he received a Bachelor of Arts in English, with a minor in Economics from Tulane University. Mr. Leighton focuses his practice in the area of medical negligence, automobile, and premises matters. Mr. Leighton has served on the Tort Law Steering Committee and Steering Committee of the Injury to Persons and Property Section of the D.C. Bar. Mr. Leighton was the 2011-2012 President of the Trial Lawyers Association of Washington, D.C. He has served as a Board of Governor and as a Chair of the Education Committee. Mr. Leighton has also served as a trial judge at the George Washington University Law School.

General Practice Law

950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20530, USA

Alina Habba was named senior advisor to the attorney general for United States attorneys in a Justice Department announcement dated December 8, 2025. Her earlier federal service was in the District of New Jersey, where she held an interim United States attorney appointment and subsequently asserted authority to serve in an acting capacity. Her New Jersey work included announcing a tax prosecution result in April 2025. Michael DiPaolo Jr. pleaded guilty to filing a false income tax return after failing to report restaurant income. The department reported approximately $590,000 in avoided federal income taxes. Habba credited IRS-Criminal Investigation agents with the investigation; the release separately identified Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel A. Friedman as the lawyer representing the government. Her authority to lead the office became the subject of litigation. In an August 21, 2025 memorandum opinion, the district court concluded that she had exercised the office’s functions without lawful authority since July 1. It ordered her disqualified from participating in ongoing cases, including the prosecutions of Cesar Humberto Pina and Julien Giraud Jr. and Julien Giraud III. The opinion stated that the problem with her approval of Pina’s indictment did not require its dismissal. The December personnel announcement placed Habba in an advisory assignment rather than describing her as New Jersey’s chief prosecutor. It assigned supervision or conduct of the district’s criminal, civil, appellate and administrative work to Philip Lamparello, Jordan Fox and Ari Fontecchio.

Corporate and Transactional Law

1717 K St NW #900, Washington, DC 20006, USA

Amanda Burch graduated from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School. She is a recipient of the Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Law School Division “Governor of the Year”, Florida Bar Business Law Section Scholar and Leadership Achievement Award recipient. Amanda also has her Masters in Sports Leadership and Conflict Analysis. She is a faithful believer in providing and creating more opportunities for minority communities. She understands that there is a disparity in America and the only way to resolve it is to be part of the change.

Personal Injury Law

1250 I Street NW, Suite 902, Washington, DC 20005

Archie L. Rich II is the founding partner of The Rich Firm, PC and is responsible for the firm’s management. Mr. Rich is an experienced litigation attorney with over 15 years’ experience in personal injury and medical malpractice matters. In addition to an extensive background in tort litigation, Mr. Rich’s professional experience includes substantial work in international business development and telecommunications.

Immigration Law

1629 K St. NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006

Caroline Azevedo practices immigration law with Visa Finder and has a listed office in Washington, D.C. Her work extends from visa petitions before USCIS to defending people in removal proceedings. In Immigration Court matters, she prepares asylum and cancellation of removal applications, motions and bond requests. Portuguese, English and Spanish are the languages in which she assists clients. Azevedo earned a master’s degree at the University of Miami School of Law. Her firm biography identifies New York and the District of Columbia as her licensing jurisdictions and lists membership in the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the National Immigration Project. OpenGovNY’s attorney directory records her under the fuller name Caroline Souza Azevedo, with New York admission in 2020 and Visa Finder Immigration as her employer. The office listed there is on K Street NW, in Suite 300 at number 1629. At the firm level, Visa Finder offers immigration services to individuals, families and organizations. Family reunification and residence options based on family relationships are among those services. For workers and professionals, the firm describes planning around employment-based immigration categories; for entrepreneurs and investors, it assesses routes in light of the proposed business and category requirements. Its temporary-visa services address the purpose of a visit and the applicant’s circumstances. Separately, the firm offers humanitarian immigration assistance to people facing persecution and to victims of crime or abuse.

Civil Litigation

4725 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, USA

Charles J. Laduca’s tenure at the firm began over twenty-four years ago as a messenger working his way through college. He rose from messenger to paralegal to law clerk to attorney to be named partner, within just four years of graduating law school. As of January 1, 2017, Mr. LaDuca assumed the role of firm chairman. Over the past eighteen years, Charles LaDuca has served as Lead Counsel, or in the leadership structure, in dozens of defective building products and consumer cases. To date, his cases have recovered over $2 billion for Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca’s clients. Mr. LaDuca’s most noted achievement has been to use the legal system to help millions of homeowners obtain compensation to fix their homes after suffering from flawed, leaky roofs, faulty plumbing, and defective siding. Specific examples of Mr. LaDuca’s accomplishments include: Mr. LaDuca was co-lead counsel in the efforts of homeowners with heating systems outfitted with “Entran II” piping, which the homeowners believed were defective. After a fifteen month investigation, and having overcome motions to dismiss, Mr. LaDuca forged a North American settlement under which homeowners on average each received $60,000 to fix their homes. This $364 million settlement came about as a result of aggressive litigation by Mr. LaDuca’s team against the defendant and other homeowner lawyers that involved two “All Writs” injunctions. Serving as co-lead counsel, Mr. LaDuca represented homeowners who purchased Ipex brass fittings that turned out to be defective. The case has allowed thousands of home owners to recover thousands of dollars each in compensation for their losses. The total fund for homeowners’ compensation is $125 million, and the claims period is still pending for another five years. In his largest case, Mr. LaDuca was co-lead counsel representing owners of over 1.8 million homes who purchased CertainTeed roofing shingles that the homeowners believed were defective. And thanks to Mr. LaDuca’s determined legal work, more than 75,000 homeowners to date have recovered up to thousands of dollars each. As a result of Mr. LaDuca’s efforts, the claims period will continue for another twenty-three years. The estimated value of the settlement exceeds $700 million. Mr. LaDuca was the Chair of the Executive Committee in the Zurn defective brass fitting litigation. After the plaintiff’s team certified the national class, the defendants appealed unsuccessfully all the way to the Supreme Court. The case settled for roughly $30 million. The Final Approval was granted in March, 2013. Mr. LaDuca served as co-lead counsel in the GAF roof shingles litigation which was consolidated before Judge Childs in South Carolina. He represented homeowners who believe their roof shingles were defective. The plaintiffs successfully beat back 14 Motions to Dismiss and certified a South Carolina class. The case then settled for over $200 million. The settlement claims period is ongoing. Please contact Charles LaDuca at [email protected] more details. Mr. LaDuca is co-lead counsel in a case which represents homeowners with Owens Corning roof shingles, which the homeowners believe are defective. The court initially granted judgment for Owens Corning, and Mr. LaDuca’s team won reversal in a federal appeals court. Discovery is ongoing. Mr. LaDuca and his family are active in the community, especially in helping to repair, rebuild and raise money for better homes for the disadvantaged. Mr. LaDuca’s charitable contributions have included his support for education programs for under-resourced children in third world countries such as Ethiopia and Sierra Leone. Mr. LaDuca currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Kid Museum and is actively involved in the New York State Society of Washington, D.C.

International Law

555 12th St NW suite 1200, Washington, DC 20004, USA

As a first generation American, Christine Sohar Henter exemplifies a passionate commitment to the practice of international trade law. She represents companies, trade associations, and governments on international trade matters including import trade remedies, customs compliance, export controls, sanction laws, and international business transactions, based on her public and private sector experience. Christine started her legal career in public service. She was a senior attorney with the Office of the Chief Counsel for Import Administration (now the Office of Enforcement & Compliance) at the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC). There, she advised U.S. government officials on compliance with U.S. trade laws and represented the U.S. in judicial appeals domestically before courts and internationally before the World Trade Organization (WTO) and North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) panels. Christine was also the lead attorney for Commerce's Office of Textiles and Apparel, drafting implementation regulations, counseling on the application and negotiation of international textile and free trade agreements. Prior to DOC, Christine served as a legal adviser for a Commissioner and Chairperson at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), assisting with trade remedy decisions, responding to inquiries from Congressional members, and overseeing 337 reviews. Before pursuing her government legal service in Washington, D.C., she assisted numerous companies with their export business through the Denver US Export Assistance Center. Christine's import trade practice includes advising clients on customs compliance, trade remedy proceedings (antidumping duty, countervailing duty and safeguard cases), Foreign Trade Zones, Buy America requirements, and Section 337 intellectual property investigations. She also helps clients successfully navigate the complex rules of international trade agreements, trade legislation and regulations before the DOC, ITC, and the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), as well as import requirements of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Fish and Wildlife Services, and Department of Agriculture. Additionally, Christine has helped companies develop import or customs compliance programs and safeguard supplier relationships and supply chain management to mitigate risks, and has represented U.S. and non-U.S. companies before U.S. government agencies. She advises on trade restrictions, tariff classifications, valuation, marking, country of origin, ruling requests, internal advice requests, responses to information requests, and protests. She also assists company and trade association clients with tariff matters under Section 301 and Section 232, including exclusion requests and appeals related to these tariffs. Christine also assists companies with complying with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), including supply chain tracing, compliance training, implementing compliance procedures and policies, and development of comprehensive business compliance programs. Her experience in export controls issues ranges from assisting companies with a wide range of compliance matters, such as classification of encrypted technology, software, computer and aerospace products, to navigating ever-evolving export regulations and sanctions laws. Christine also represents clients for voluntary disclosures, developing compliance programs, and obtaining export licenses and other export authorizations under the Commerce Control List of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the U.S. Munitions List of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). She also counsels clients on U.S. sanctions and embargoes enforced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and foreign investment matters before the departments of State, Commerce, Defense and Treasury. In addition, Christine advises U.S. and non-U.S. businesses regarding foreign direct investment in U.S.-based corporations, and represents clients before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) by conducting due diligence, drafting notices and developing risk mitigation plans for sensitive infrastructure. She also counsels companies on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by developing compliance programs, analyzing transactions for potential liability, conducting internal reviews, and drafting contracts for agreements with non-US-based representatives. She co-leads three subject matter expert teams assisting the Special Compliance Coordinator appointed by the U.S. Department of Commerce to monitor, assess and report on the U.S. export control compliance of Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment Corporation, of Shenzhen, China, and ZTE Kangxun Telecommunications Ltd. of Hi-New Shenzhen, China (collectively, ZTE). Prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg, Christine was in private practice, where she was involved in litigating the most recent trade remedies case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Eurodif S.A. v. United States. Additionally, Christine teaches basic and advanced level courses across the country on compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations, such as the ITAR, EAR and OFAC restrictions.

Personal Injury Law

1055 Thomas Jefferson St NW, Washington, DC 20007

During the past two decades, Todd Mathews has secured numerous multimillion-dollar trial verdicts and settlements on behalf of his clients, successfully representing plaintiffs nationwide across product liability, personal injury, employment, sexual abuse, class action, mass tort, and whistleblower cases. Todd served as co-lead trial counsel to the Official Committee of Talc Claimants in the Johnson & Johnson bankruptcy of its special purpose subsidiary LTL Management. For more please visit here. His courtroom efforts have not gone unnoticed. Todd is a member of the National Trial Lawyers Top 100, an invitation-only organization composed of premier trial lawyers from each state or region, and is a lifetime member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, one of the most prestigious groups of trial lawyers in America. A partner in Bailey Glasser’s St. Louis office, Todd joined the firm in September 2021. Todd serves on the plaintiff’s executive committee of both the Atrium Hernia Mesh Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) in New Hampshire and the Smith and Nephew Hips MDL in Maryland. He also holds leadership committee positions on the Bard Hernia Mesh Coordinated Cases, Mirena PTC MDL, and Taxotere MDL. He serves the Missouri Association of Trial Lawyers as a representative to the American Association of Justice’s board of governors. A regular organizer of and speaker at legal symposiums worldwide, Todd designs events that facilitate leadership roles, reflect organizational structure, and encourage coordinated litigation efforts. His conferences have featured hundreds of U.S. law firms. Todd holds a J.D. from Nova Southeastern University School of Law, as well as a bachelor’s degree from Southern Illinois University.

Immigration Law

888 17th St NW, Washington, DC 20006, USA

Danielle Beach utilizes her 26 years of experience in immigration law to help individuals immigrate to the United States for humanitarian reasons. Born in Brussels, Belgium, Ms. Beach has lived in England, Belgium, Italy and Ivory Coast and has traveled extensively to many countries. Ms. Beach advocates for clients from around the world who seek freedom from torture in their country, or who are victims of domestic violence and trafficking. She has facilitated and litigated for family reunification and promoted employment for professionals, creating jobs for the economy. She has worked with numerous expert witnesses who have testified on her cases for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), forced marriage, illegal organ transplants, female genital mutilation, and political country experts for various countries all over the world. Ms. Beach is President and Managing Partner at Beach-Oswald Immigration Law Associates. She represents clients who suffer persecution and abuse in their native countries and focuses on helping them obtain a better quality of life in the United States. Ms. Beach actively advocates for her clients and assists them as they integrate into United States culture. She has also represented her clients at U.S. Consulates in Romania, China, Canada, Mexico, and several African countries. With her extensive experience in family-based and employment-based immigration law Ms. Beach not only assists her clients in obtaining a better standard of living in the United States, she also helps employers obtain professional visas and petition for family members. She also handles many complex naturalization issues. Ms. Beach has unique expertise representing clients in immigration matters pending before the Federal District Courts, Circuit Courts, Board of Immigration Appeals and Immigration Courts. She has won over 900 humanitarian cases in the United States.

Criminal Defense Law

601 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA

Area of Practice: White Collar & National Security Deborah Curtis, former Deputy General Counsel for Litigation and Investigations at the CIA, is a member of the firm’s White Collar Defense & Investigations practice. She focuses on national security investigations and defense, as well as other litigation and enforcement matters. An accomplished trial lawyer, Deborah has chaired 17 jury trials and over 50 bench trials as both prosecutor and defense counsel. As an adviser to senior CIA leadership, Deborah oversaw all litigation and investigations implicating sensitive CIA interests, congressional inquests, incident response, criminal inquiries, and the invocation of state secrets and diplomatic privileges and immunities. She also advised on counterintelligence issues and major international policy initiatives that impact national security, including the U.S.-EU transatlantic data privacy framework and the interface with the International Criminal Court. Prior to joining the CIA, Deborah served as Chief Counsel for Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where she advised executive leadership and the National Security Council on legal enforcement and policy decisions related to the expansion of export controls and enforcement mechanisms, including the Entity List, emerging technologies, and the foreign direct product rule. Deborah previously spent more than a decade in various roles at the U.S. Department of Justice. She worked as a Trial Attorney and Deputy Chief in the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section prosecuting Espionage Act and other national security-related cases, as well as overseeing criminal sanctions, export control investigations, and prosecutions nationwide. Deborah also served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Deputy Chief in the National Security Section for the District of Columbia, where she investigated, prosecuted, and supervised a broad spectrum of cases, including nation-state sponsored espionage and malign cyber activities; illegal foreign agents; economic espionage; export control and sanctions violations; and related criminal matters involving fraud, terrorism, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Speech or Debate Clause, and other constitutional issues. Deborah began her career as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California’s Criminal Division. Following that, she served ten years with the U.S. Department of the Air Force as an active duty and reserve Judge Advocate, attaining the grade of Major. During this time, Deborah was the Cadet Counsel at the U.S. Air Force Academy and served as Associate Deputy General Counsel for National Security and Military Affairs at the Pentagon. As a Judge Advocate, she was appointed by the Secretary of the Air Force to lead a Department-level “Crisis Action Team” legal review of sexual harassment at a military academy.

Labor Law

2001 L Street, N.W., 902, Washington, DC 20036

With more than two decades of experience litigating a vast range of high stakes federal employment law matters, Donna is a vital component of Tully Rinckey PLLC’s nationally recognized federal labor and employment law practice group. Prior to joining the firm, Donna was Principal of her own labor and employment firm in Washington, D.C., and has held top positions at a number of prestigious firms throughout her extensive career. As past President and executive board member of the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association (MWELA), Donna has routinely interfaced with dynamic issues and information pertaining to employment law and enjoys the respect of the top federal labor and employment attorneys in the country.

Civil Litigation

1717 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 12th Floor, Washington, DC 20006

Ed Longosz has a local and nationwide practice with a broad range of experience in complex civil litigation. His practice includes business torts, class actions, the defense of toxic torts, product liability, professional malpractice D&O matters. In addition, he represents airlines on passenger and cargo claims, commercial and regulatory matters, government compliance and investigations, antitrust, class actions, insurance coverage, contract disputes, agency disputes, and bad faith cases.

Intellectual Property Law

1101 New Hampshire Ave NW #612, Washington, DC 20037, USA

Eric G. Wright is the founder and Managing Partner of Wright IP & International Law. His IP practice focuses on litigation, trial, opinions, counseling and prosecution. It strategically supports the development of worldwide protection and trade of commercial products and core technologies in a broad variety of technological arts. Previously, Mr. Wright was the leader of the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) and International Trade practices of a leading US law firm. He also worked in IP at Morgan & Finnegan LLP and co-founded its renewed D.C. USITC litigation practice. Mr. Wright has always maintained a significant practice working to develop worldwide patent and trademark portfolios for commercial products in competitive markets. Prior to legal practice he worked as an engineer for almost a decade in engineering design and construction, manufacturing operations and consulting.

Health Care Law

1900 K Street NW, c/o Dentons, Washington, DC 20006

Gadi is one of the nation’s more experienced and sought-after health care fraud and abuse and regulatory compliance lawyers, garnering tier one recognition from Chambers USA for the past nine years. Clients have described him as “brilliant” and “creative,” “a deep strategic thinker who is results-focused” and “a tremendous problem solver." His unrelenting commitment to his client’s success also has earned him accolades in The Legal 500, SuperLawyers and from BTI Consulting Group, among others. Gadi has 34 years of experience representing hospitals, health systems and academic medical centers; pharmaceutical (including vaccine) developers and manufacturers, medical device and durable medical equipment (DME) manufacturers and suppliers, faculty practice plans and medical practices, group purchasing organizations, accountable care organizations (ACOs), managed care organizations, private equity and information technology companies in a wide variety of matters.

Representing Whistle Blowers

700 Pennsylvania SE Ave, STE 300, Washington, DC 20003

Represents Whistle Blower

Labor Law

1909 K St NW suite 330, Washington, DC 20006, USA

Ms. Scott is a co-founder of FortneyScott, where her diverse practice focuses on business, international, and workplace matters. She counsels U.S. and foreign-based clients on complying with U.S. workplace and tax laws and assists U.S. employers in expanding outside the U.S. She regularly advises clients, many of which are federal government contractors, on workplace investigations; government procurement and related employment issues; prevailing wages under the Service Contract and Davis Bacon Acts and related matters; worker classification issues; and compliance with the wage and hour requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act and related state laws. Ms. Scott is a frequent lecturer on issues of international labor and employment law, including expatriate and secondment agreements, overtime, minimum wage, data privacy, worker classification status, international tax, and human rights. She holds key leadership positions in international professional organizations, including, having served as President of the Union Internationale des Avocats (International Association of Lawyers or UIA) from 2023-2024 and now serving as the UIA’s Immediate Past President. UIA is an international association of lawyers committed to the protection of human rights, including worker’s rights and the defense of their universal nature, including, specifically, the defense of lawyers’ human rights in protecting the human rights of others. Ms. Scott formerly served as Director General of the UIA’s Institute for the Rule of Law (UIA-IROL) and has also served as a member of the ITC Pro-Bono Committee on International Model Contracts for Exporting SME’s. Ms. Scott has significant experience and expertise in adjudicating both U.S. and international commercial and employment disputes. She served for many years as the United States’ Member and First Vice President of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal, the seven-member, independent appellate forum of last resort that adjudicated claims made by United Nations employees worldwide. Drawing on years of experience in the securities industry as an attorney for an international financial institution, Ms. Scott has served in the United States as an arbitrator for the securities industry with the National Association of Securities Dealers. Ms. Scott’s workplace investigations practice includes conducting workplace investigations for employers in the private, not-for-profit, and public sectors. She has investigated sensitive matters involving fraud and mismanagement; harassment and discrimination; and matters arising under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Ms. Scott’s wage and hour practice includes advising and representing clients, including not-for-profit organizations, on matters involving federal and state prevailing wage issues; and the FLSA, including minimum wage and overtime obligations and exemptions, classification of positions as exempt or non-exempt, overtime requirements for non-exempt employees and compensation strategies and policies for exempt employees. She also advises clients on matters involving the classification of workers as employees or independent contractors. ?Formerly, Ms. Scott was in-house counsel to Merrill Lynch, an international brokerage firm, advising and litigating on matters involving securities and commodities compliance, various broker-dealer issues, and related employment matters. She also has extensive experience in the practice of corporate and international tax law, including project and tax-exempt bond finance, as well as ERISA, with Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander & Ferdon, in New York, NY and Chadbourne & Parke, in Washington, D.C. Ms. Scott has trial and appellate litigation experience in state and federal courts. She formerly served as the General Counsel to the Junior League of Philadelphia.

Health Care Law

1010 Wisonsin Ave, NW, 530, Washington, DC 20007

James Napoli is the founder and managing partner of Diceros Law PLLC, a Washington, D.C., firm serving employers and group health plans. His counseling work has included brokers and agents, employer groups, and healthcare-industry vendors. He has also written two books on the Affordable Care Act. Employee benefits were central to Napoli’s work before Diceros. In October 2014, he moved to Seyfarth Shaw’s Washington office from Constangy, Brooks & Smith, where he had co-chaired the ERISA practice. Seyfarth’s announcement described a background that extended from tax-qualified retirement plans to retiree medical issues. Among the employers he had advised on retiree medical matters were businesses in automotive manufacturing, steel, entertainment and transportation. That earlier work included disputes over benefits and alleged breaches of fiduciary duty under ERISA. Away from litigation, Napoli negotiated investment management and administrative services agreements. He had also defended clients in agency proceedings and audits, including matters brought by the Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue Service. Diceros’s published services focus on the legal and administrative needs of group health plans. The firm assists with vendor selection, cost-containment contracts and payment policies; it also reviews plan documents and helps prepare participant notices. On the disputes side, Diceros represents plans in contract and medical-provider reimbursement matters, as well as participants and covered dependents facing balance-billing disputes. The firm separately offers advice on HIPAA and ERISA fiduciary obligations.

Personal Injury Law

1100 Connecticut Avenue NW, 730, Washington, DC 20036

A native of Jersey City, New Jersey, James Taglieri has extensive legal experience, as evidenced by his many professional affiliations and honors.

Securities Law

1250 Connecticut Ave NW #700, Washington, DC 20036, USA

Mr. Smith is a highly-experienced securities lawyer, chief compliance officer, and business attorney with over 23 years of experience strengthening the legal and compliance functions of investment advisers, broker-dealers, and investment vehicles. He has also represented companies at all stages of maturity with their capital and debt raising efforts via private offerings and public offerings. He has also served as Chief Legal Officer and Chief Compliance Officer for NorthRock Partners LLC and Virtue Capital Management LLC; Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of RIA Compliance Firm LLC, and Founder and Managing Attorney for LawVisory. He previously served as Chief Compliance Officer of Griffin Capital Company LLC and Research Affiliates LLC, where he also served as Assistant General Counsel.

Labor Law

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20004

John Mahoney is a Washington, DC Attorneys at Law and the Founding and Managing Partner of the Firm, who specializes in the practice of federal sector employment, labor, and national security clearance law.

Labor Law

500 Eighth Street, NW, Washington, DC, DC 20004

Area of Practice: ERISA and Employment Jonathan Rose focuses his practice advising on matters related to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and related employment litigation. He advises plan sponsors and fiduciaries of qualified and non-qualified pension and health benefit plans in compliance with a wide range of fiduciary duties required in the administration and investment of plan assets. He has also successfully represented clients in over a hundred government investigations by the Department of Labor, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and the Internal Revenue Service, among others. Jonathan also represents financial advisors, investment funds and service providers on Title I issues involving the structuring and marketing of investment funds, including venture capital and real estate operating companies, qualified plan asset managers, issuers and borrowers of credit and loan agreements, and issuers warehouse financing and administration agreements. He has extensive experience litigation in many areas of labor and employment law, including whistleblower claims against government contractors, federal and state wage-and-hour claims, and federal and state discrimination claims. He also regularly advises employers in the negotiation of employment and severance agreements and collective bargaining agreements. Some of Jonathan's notable experience includes representing clients in complex ERISA-related class action disputes in US district courts and other complex litigation matters; serving as first-chair counsel for Fortune 500 sponsors in stock drop and retiree health class action cases, as well as executive compensation litigation cases; and negotiating mergers of underfunded plans to avoid the imposition of withdrawal liability and excise taxes on employers through negotiations with the PBGC and IRS.

Corporate and Transactional Law

555 13th St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA

Mariana advises private investors, multilateral and financial institutions, and project sponsors in complex cross-border development and financing transactions that focus on infrastructure and renewable and traditional energy projects. Click Here to Connect on Linkedin

Corporate and Transactional Law

409 3rd St SW, Washington, DC 20416, USA

Nygina Mills is a legal executive in the Washington, D.C., area who has held leadership positions in federal agencies and partnerships in private law firms. At the Small Business Administration, she served as Associate General Counsel for Financial Law. Her responsibilities there included leading a staff of 30 lawyers and administrative personnel supporting more than ten departments, among them the Office of Capital Access. Before that appointment, Mills directed the Strategic Initiatives Directorate at the U.S. Department of Education. Performance tracking and transparency for CARES Act and American Rescue Plan programs formed part of her responsibilities. Earlier assignments placed her on two sides of defense contracting: contract oversight at the Defense Contract Management Agency and legal advice on contract costs at the Defense Contract Audit Agency. She held the first agency’s Associate Counsel (Contracts) position from 2012 to 2017, then served as the audit agency’s Assistant General Counsel from 2017 to 2020. In the latter position, she supervised teams advising on contract cost resolutions in the United States and abroad. Mills’s private-practice background includes Crowell & Moring and Paul Hastings, along with partnerships at Perry Krumsiek & Jack and FisherBroyles. FisherBroyles announced her arrival in September 2011, citing work involving both commercial and federal contracts. She earned her J.D. at Harvard Law School. Outside those appointments, she has taken part in discussions as a speaker or moderator for the American Bar Association, Harvard Business School and Public Contracting Institute.

Civil Litigation

1101 30th St NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA

Richard Toikka has been included in Marquis Who’s Who. As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process. Since the start of his career in the early 1970s, Dr. Toikka has excelled in the fields of law and economics, culminating in his current position as partner at Toikka Law Group, LLP, with offices in Washington, D.C. and West Palm Beach, Florida. Throughout his nearly 50-year career, he has lent his services to a number of senior executive and legal roles with the Urban Institute, Toikka Enterprises, Washington, Perito & Dubuc, Graham & James, Farkas & Manelli, and Metropolitan Legal Services. Additionally, Dr. Toikka has worked as a consultant for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the National Center for Research in Vocational Education. He is also admitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to practice in patent matters. He has also been published in numerous professional journals and legal periodicals, including the American Economic Review, the Swedish Journal of Economics, the Journal of Economic Theory and the Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society. A graduate of prestigious universities, including Harvard College, Georgetown University, and the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Toikka holds a Bachelor and Master of Arts, a PhD, and a JD. His professional affiliations have included the American Bar Association, where he served as chairman of the subcommittee on damages of the litigation section committee on aviation. Beyond his status as an esteemed and hard-working figure in his industry, Dr. Toikka has been awarded many times for his professional endeavors. In addition to earning fellowships through the U.S. Department of Labor and the National Defense Education Act, Dr. Toikka has been featured in the 9th edition of Who’s Who in American Law.

International Law

1050 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20036

Labor Law

1629 K Street Northwest, 20006, United States

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Sports Law

2550 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20037

Former US Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater helps clients integrate their interests in the overall vision for the transportation system of the 21st century – a vision he set as Transportation Secretary to promote a safer, more efficient, environmentally sound and sustainable worldwide transportation infrastructure.

Intellectual Property Law

1012 14th NW St, Washington DC, DC 20005

Appellate Law

1629 K St NW, Washington, DC 20006, USA

Attorney Schantell S. Comegys is an experienced mediator, best cialis check litigator, help negotiator, doctor and consultant. Mrs. Comegys is an Accredited Veterans Affairs (VA) and Social Security Administration (SSA) attorney. In addition to her Juris Doctor, she completed her graduate studies in Negotiations and Conflict Management at the University of Baltimore and her undergraduate studies at Philadelphia University in Pre-Law (International Studies) and Chestnut Hill College in Criminal Justice.

Intellectual Property Law

5335 Wisconsin Ave NW suite 440, Washington, DC 20015, USA

Prior to law school, Steven spent fourteen years as a systems engineer for IBM’s Federal Sector Division, Computer Technology Associates (CTA), and Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) working with various government organizations, including NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of the Army, and the United States Coast Guard. Prior to his work as a Systems Engineer, Steven spent seven years in the United States Navy in training and as an electronics technician. Prior to starting War IP Law PLLC, Steven was the practice chair for intellectual property litigation at McNeely, Hare & War LLP. During this time, he also wrote opinions, and obtained patents and trademarks for his clients. Before his time at McNeely, Hare & War LLP, Steven worked at several national/international law firms, including Dickstein Shapiro LLP, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, Fish & Richardson P.C., and Howrey & Simon. At those firms he worked on all aspects of intellectual property including opinions regarding freedom to operate, validity, infringement, and due diligence.

Personal Injury Law

1730 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Suite #410, Washington, DC 20036

Wayne R. Cohen is the founder and managing partner of Cohen & Cohen, P.C. Mr. Cohen is an AV-rated lawyer, whose practice is concentrated in the areas of medical malpractice, wrongful death, automobile accidents, product liability, class actions, and other personal injury areas. In short, he has devoted his professional career to representing the rights of the injured. Mr. Cohen has appeared on numerous occasions in local and national television shows and print media. Mr. Cohen has been called one of “Washington’s best lawyers”, one of Washington’s “top 40 lawyers under 40,” one of “Washington’s top trial lawyers,” one of “the 50 best lawyers in Washington,” and “one of the city’s most feared personal injury lawyers.” (Washingtonian Magazine, November 2015, December 2013, November 2011, December 2009, December 2007, July 2006, August 2004, April 2002, and June 2001). The Washington Examiner identified Mr. Cohen as a “prominent, personal injury lawyer” on January 31, 2006. He was named in The National Trial Lawyers Association’s 2008 Top 100 Trial Lawyers in the District of Columbia, has been named as one of Washington DC’s Super Lawyers for 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2016 and has been featured by Washingtonian Magazine. Our DC injury lawyers and car accident lawyers have appeared on major news networks including ABC, NBC, Fox, the Washington Post, USA Today, Washingtonian Magazine and more. If you or a loved one has suffered an auto accident injury, or personal injury, and need a lawyer in DC, Maryland or Virginia, call our office today for a free consultation. We have decades of experience handling injury claims in DC, in Maryland in Virginia, and will work hard to provide you with immediate assistance on your case. Education: The University of Miami 1991. Practicing for over 27 years.

Criminal Defense Law

1101 17th NW St, STE 1100, Washington, DC 20036

Bill Coffield has successfully represented corporations, corporate officers of major corporations, and public sector officials, including The White House and The United States Congress, for over twenty-five years. He is AV Peer Rated by Martindale Hubbell, is ranked a Super Lawyer by Thompson Reuters, and has been named a Top One Hundred Trial Lawyer by the National Trial Lawyers Association. In 2015 Bill was made a Fellow in the Litigation Counselors of America. His areas of practice and expertise include white collar and complex civil litigation. Bill regularly advises clients on how to strategically navigate high-profile investigations by federal agencies, Congress, and foreign governments. Bill attended Fordham University and The University of Miami. He served in the US Army as an Infantry Officer. He is a graduate of numerous Military programs, to include the U.S. Army's Airborne and Ranger Schools. He was Executive Assistant to Congressman Bill Emerson from 1985 to 1991.

In House Counsel

1140 3rd ST NE, 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20002

Kelly Burchell has been practicing law since 2004. With Burchell Law, Kelly regularly appears before state and federal courts in the District of Columbia, the State of Maryland, and the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as before state and federal administrative agencies and oversight boards on behalf of clients. Kelly has represented numerous government contractors in payment disputes and false claims actions. Working with small businesses, Kelly has assisted individuals in forming corporations-both LLCs and INCs and structured various clients’ joint ventures to ensure proper management and tax structure. Kelly has also defended small businesses in EEO and wage actions. Prior to establishing Burchell Law PLLC, Kelly was a partner with Burchell & Hughes PLLC and Burchell, Goldblatt & MacKay PLLC. Kelly also served as General Counsel for numerous Fraternal Order of Police Labor Committees in the District of Columbia area including the United States Capitol Police, the National Institutes of Health Division of Police, the United States Park Police, the Library of Congress Police, and the Government Printing Office Police. While representing police unions, Kelly negotiated multiple collective bargaining agreements, arbitrated overtime claims on behalf of the collective bargaining unit and represented officers in adverse action proceedings. Kelly was also directly involved in handling agency policy negotiations, unfair labor practice claims, as well as collective bargaining unit certification issues. Kelly graduated from Howard University School of Law in 2004 and earned a LLM in Tax Law from Villanova University School of Law. While attending Howard, he interned with District of Columbia Superior Court Judges Honorable Arthur L. Burnett, Sr. and the Honorable Herbert B. Dixon, Jr. While interning with Judge Burnett, Kelly researched and drafted an advisory memorandum discussing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and warrantless searches in the post-9/11 era. Kelly grew up on a farm in Nebraska. He spends his Saturdays cheering for Nebraska football (Go Big Red!).

Labor Law

2201 Wisconsin, 200, Washington, DC 20007

Labor Law

1626 34th St NW, Washington, DC 20007

Ron has been in practice for over forty years, specializing in employee benefits law, labor law and lobbying at both state and federal levels. He is a member of the District of Columbia and Missouri bars. Ron has tried hundreds of arbitrations, and tried and argued cases at trial and appellate levels in both state and federal courts. His greatest inspiration is his clients and what he has learned from them. He is a graduate (with honors) of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, and the University of Missouri (with honors) law school at Columbia, Missouri.