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The Law Offices of Anthony M. DeBari has been a General Law Practice serving the community's legal needs since 1999. Feel free to call us with your legal issues.

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Tara Bonzani began working for Carter & Civitello as a lawyer in October 2015. Since that time, she has assisted Attorneys Carter and Civitello in handling workers’ compensation and Social Security Disability cases.. She was born in West Haven, Connecticut and has resided in Connecticut most of her life. Tara worked as a legal assistant and paralegal for the firm from 2003 through 2012. During her nine years at the firm, she handled all Social Security Disability cases and received her BS in Sociology from Southern Connecticut State University. Today, Tara still handles the majority of Social Security Disability cases in the firm.. In 2012, Tara left Carter & Civitello to attend law school in Washington, D.C. at the University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law, a public interest law school widely recognized for its legal clinic program. While attending law school, she was elected Treasurer of the Women’s Law Society and completed over 700 hours of legal work as a student attorney in the Juvenile and Special Education Law Clinic and the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic. In the summer of 2014, Tara worked as a law clerk for Attorney Stephen Shechtel of Rockville, Maryland, working on family and civil matters. She graduated Cum Laude in May 2015 and was sworn into the Connecticut Bar on November 2, 2015.. Tara has been working in the legal field since the age of nineteen and after years of hard work, she is proud to return to Carter & Civitello as an associate lawyer. In her free time, Tara enjoys cooking and writing. She is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association and is currently residing in Meriden, Connecticut.

Spanish speaking attorney working in northern Virginia.  I am licensed to practice in DC, Virginia, and Maryland.  Accepting all types of clients and cases from family, criminal, personal injury, bankruptcy, immigration, and more.. Over 20 years expirence working in the federal government before moving into the private sector and opening private practice.

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My entire career has been dedicated to defending those accused of crimes, DWI, serious motor vehicle violations, and the rights of victims of crimes and accidents. I have prosecuted, defended, or appealed cases ranging from municipal court matters to more serious crimes including drug offenses and murder. I am passionate about providing personalized, thorough, and effective representation to individuals in crisis.

Ms. Kelley is an Associate with Nichols Zauzig Sandler and concentrates on family law. She joined the firm after working as a law clerk to the Honorable Craig D. Johnston in Prince William County Circuit Court. Prior to that time, she was a paralegal for a large international law firm, in the Washington, D.C. office.. Ms. Kelley received her law degree from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University. During law school, Ms. Kelley gained extensive experience in family law as a student attorney with the Columbus Community Legal Services Families and Law Clinic, providing free, high-quality legal services to needy families who live in the District of Columbia metropolitan area and would otherwise go unrepresented.. Ms. Kelley served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Jennifer Anderson in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. She also worked as a legal clerk to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the United States House of Representatives.. During law school, Ms. Kelley served as an Associate Editor of the Catholic Law Review and as a member of the Student Bar Association’s Professional Conduct Council.

Mr. Nichols is a principal in the thirteen-lawyer firm of Nichols Zauzig Sandler P.C., in the Woodbridge, Stafford and Tysons Corner, Virginia offices. He concentrates his practice on family law matters, including divorce, custody, child support, distribution of assets and determination of alimony, as well as related matters such as protective orders and criminal defense. As a litigator, his practice routinely sees him in all levels of our court system.. Mr. Nichols' broad experience in all areas of family practice provides a substantial benefit to his clients. He has had the good fortune to handle clients with a wide range of financial backgrounds, from those of modest means to clients whose incomes and assets are significant. His philosophy in handling any case is to litigate to the fullest if necessary, but to settle in an amicable way, if possible. He recognizes that “seek and destroy” is not a fruitful approach when there are children, careers, and other common interests that will bind two people together long after the ink is dry on a final divorce, and therefore, a more practical approach is oftentimes best.. Mr. Nichols is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and he has received Martindale Hubbell's highest rating (AV) for legal ability and ethics. Mr. Nichols has also been recognized in the specialty of Family Law by "Best Lawyers in America," Thompson Reuter's Virginia "Super Lawyers," and Washingtonian Magazine.

Mr. Chamas graduated from Rider University in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science. Before attending Law School, he worked in the construction industry. Mr. Chamas then went on to receive a Juris Doctorate from Widener University School of Law in Delaware. He is licensed to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Mr. Chamas is admitted to practice law in the United States District Court, the Supreme Court of New Jersey and the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.. In March of 2000, Mr. Chamas was appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney. He is a member of the American Association for Justice and sits on the Board of Governors for the New Jersey Chapter of the American Association for Justice. He is also a member of the New Jersey State and Middlesex County Bar Associations. He is on the Board of Trustees for Holidays for the Homeless, a charitable organization formed to help the homeless and less fortunate. He concentrates his practice in the areas of construction accidents, medical malpractice, product liability and automobile negligence.. Mr. Chamas has been on the New Jersey Super Lawyers list since 2005.

Jessica Stokes-Johnson, the founding attorney of Stokes Johnson Law, is a dedicated legal professional with a passion for justice. A native of Jackson, Mississippi, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Mississippi State University and a Juris Doctorate from Thurgood Marshall School of Law.. Prior to establishing her own practice, Ms. Stokes-Johnson served as a Trust Administrative Officer for U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management in Chicago, Illinois. While in law school, she gained invaluable experience clerking for Judge Tim Taft of the Texas 1st Court of Appeals and interning with both the Harris County District Attorney's Office and the Secretary of State of Georgia.. With over 17 years of legal experience, Ms. Stokes-Johnson is licensed to practice in Virginia, the District of Columbia, the Eastern District of Virginia, and Illinois. She leverages her extensive experience, both in and out of court, to achieve favorable outcomes for her clients, always with a focus on justice and personalized representation.. Beyond her legal career, Ms. Stokes-Johnson is deeply involved in her community. She served as a certified Guardian Ad Litem in Prince William County, Virginia, for over a decade, and her dedication to children's welfare earned her the 2016 Prince William County Bar Association Guardian Ad Litem of the Year award. Additionally, she is a current member of the Prince William County Bar Association and has previously affiliated with several other legal organizations to include the Virginia Women Attorneys Association, the American Bar Association, and Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity. Her community involvement extends to charitable work with Habitat for Humanity, the Red Cross of America, Big Brother Big Sister, and volunteering at local food pantries to help those in need.. Ms. Stokes-Johnson is happily married and has two children. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with family, including her Goldendoodle, Chase, traveling, and exploring new spas.

I practice law throughout New Jersey and New York focusing on most areas of civil litigation, and manage a successful transactional practice. I am more and more known as an experienced transactional real estate attorney and litigator, but I love most areas of civil law, with an emphasis on complex commercial litigation, and business law.. I am grateful to be a seasoned and successful trial attorney, and have a knack for resolving cases appropriately, and when possible, for my clients.. I am, at heart and fundamentally, a keen and perceptive listener, zealous and compassionate advocate, and strategic problem solver. I use these skills and my social skills, awareness, and. personality, to persuade planning boards, judges, juries, adversaries, and so on, as I navigate various factual and legal landscapes on behalf of my clients.. I frequently present as a panelist or moderator on various legal topics and issues at CLE events and attorney practitioner conventions.. When I’m not strategizing on a case or nerding out on various legal topics, you’ll find me singing karaoke and/or spending time with friends and family, or smoking some type of meat and enjoying a cigar.. You're welcome to contact me to chat about your legal issue.

I have always enjoyed the challenges of math and other technical training.  That love of precision has directed me towards obtaining a Masters of Law (LLM) in Tax with a focus in Estate Planning from the University of Alabama.  This specialized training has helped me to catch major mistakes that many attorneys who dabble in Estate Planning are drafting into the Trust documents that they are providing to their clients.  Often, the attorney themselves is unaware of the errors that they are drafting.. My love of advanced training has also lead me to obtain certification in Standardized Field Sobriety Tests from the NHTSA, which is the DUI training program that police officers receive at the police academies.  After learning the "inside secrets" to DUI investigations and arrests, I followed up my DUI training to become accredited as an Instructor for Standardized Field Sobriety Tests.

I am currently an associate at  Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer as a member of the family team. Prior to entering private practice I served as a law clerk to the Honorable Teresa Kondrup Coyle, at the Monmouth County Superior Court, Family Division. I am certified in Mediation and Conciliation Skills and am trained in Collaborative Law. I am also a member of the Monmouth Ocean Inns of Court, Family Division, Monmouth County Young Lawyers and the New Jersey and Monmouth County Bar Associations. I serve on the Family Law Executive Committee for the State Bar, sit on the Executive Family Law Committe in Monmouth County and am a member of the Middlesex County's Assignment Judge's Committee. I am the current co-chair of the family section of the Haydn Proctor Inns of Court. I am admitted to practice in New Jersey and Maryland.. I was born and  raised in Monmouth County. I'm a graduate of The George Washington University, and of the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. Throughout her time in law school, she was very active in The Columbus Community Legal Services, Family Law Clinic, providing pro bono services to women of domestic violence in custody and divorce cases and successfully represented a client in a contested custody case. I was a participant in Catholic’s National Trial Team, where I traveled around the country participating in mock trial competitions. This gave me the opportunity to prepare opening and closing statements, direct and cross examinations, and become intimately familiar with court procedure. I was awarded Best Overall Advocate in May of 2010 at the Capital City Challenge in Washington, D.C.

I am a Virginia trial lawyer who provides a diverse range of legal services, including criminal jury trials, in several counties, including Fairfax, Arlington, Loudoun, Prince William, Spotsylvania, Culpeper, and Fredericksburg. Please refer to the AVVO Q&A section to read some of my 15,500 legal answers.. The main reason I became a lawyer was that I didn’t see much diversity in the legal profession, and I thought the lawyers I hired for my life events, did not understand the context or cultural background. Though I tried to find other lawyers, my searches were futile.. I am an immigrant from India who became a US citizen a long time ago. My father, grandfathers, and great grandfathers were farmers owning huge parcels of farmland in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu, and accordingly, I studied Agriculture all through PhD and became an Assistant Professor at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India. Later I pursued computer programming in the United States - MS in Information Systems and worked in Siebel CRM at Accenture and SAP FICO at the Customs and Border Protection. Later, I switched to Federal Govt employee status and worked as an Inspector at the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) in Washington, D.C. My team did audits of the detention centers in Texas. As a DHS OIG inspector, I was also trained in criminal investigations by NCIS' FLETA at Glynco, Georgia.. My first entry in the United States was as a graduate research fellow with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, D.C. DEI is a gift and IFPRI is a non-profit institute gifting diverse opportunities to the international PhD students (like me) around the World. I started my career as an Agricultural Economist (India), as a teaching Professor (TNAU), a graduate research fellow (IFPRI) and a DAAD fellow (JLU, PhD) in Germany. Later after publishing a book and marriage, a new married last name and a career in computer coding, and a beautiful daughter, I pursued law school. That means I bring multi-continental, multi-area, and multicultural lawyering to the practice of law.. I received a Rosa Parks Scholarship and studied law at the only public and affordable law school in Washington, D.C., the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law. My team won the ABA Client Counseling Competition Championship in Region 3. My team also won the second place at the Nelson Mandela Int'l Negotiations Competition. Some small law schools like mine produce great defenders and change agents.. I encourage people to donate to UDC David A. Clarke School of Law which shapes many African American students, immigrant women and men into fierce defenders and champions. Please check out the free legal clinics offered by UDC law. Contact the Rising for Justice Criminal Defense Clinic in Washington DC.

Former elected Commonwealth's Attorney with over 24 years experience successfully and tenaciously prosecuting and defending cases. Call now for a free consultation!

Donna Civitello is a partner at Carter & Civitello in Woodbridge, Connecticut. She concentrates her practice in the areas of workers’ compensation and Social Security disability. She graduated from Yale University in 1978 and from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1986.. She is an author, along with Robert Carter, Jason Dodge, Jim Pomeranz and Lucas Strunk, of Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Law, a legal treatise. She also authored Injured on the Job, a handbook for injured workers and union representatives.. Donna is a Fellow of the College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers, a national organization of pre-eminent workers' compensation attorneys, and serves on the Chairman’s Legal Advisory Committee to the Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Commission. She has been Editor-in-Chief of Compensation Quarterly, a magazine for Connecticut workers’ compensation practitioners, and is currently a member of its Editorial Board.. She is a former member of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Workers’ Compensation Certification, and now serves on its Examining Committee. She has been an adjunct professor of law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where she taught a workers’ compensation course along with her husband and law partner Bob Carter, and the Hon. John Mastropietro, Chairman of the Connecticut Workers' Compensation Commission.. Donna has been listed annually in Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, since 1995 to the present, has been named a member of The Outstanding Lawyers of America, is named in The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, and is a New England Super Lawyer. She is a recipient of the 2006 ConnectiCOSH Irving Selikoff award.. Donna is married to Bob Carter, and lives in Southbury, Connecticut. She loves to dance, garden, and sew.

Cassandra Chin is a Partner with Nichols Zauzig and joined the firm in 2001, the first job of her career. Since then, she has become a leader in Virginia family law, earning both the respect of her peers and the gratitude of clients.. Cassandra has built her career on going beyond 100% for every client. As a result, her busy practice is based on referrals – from former clients, other attorneys, judges, even opposing parties. Many people also find and request her after reading the dozens of detailed reviews that her clients share online.. While devoted to her practice, Cassandra is also committed to developing the family law profession. Early on, she got involved with local and state bar associations. Ultimately, she became the youngest person to serve on the Board of Governors for the Virginia State Bar Family Law Section, later becoming Chair. On a national level, she was one of the youngest fellows when she was accepted into the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), after meeting their stringent membership criteria. She is now a 2nd Vice President serving on the organization’s National Executive Committee, as well as Immediate Past President of the AAML Virginia Chapter. For the Prince William County Bar Association, Cassandra served as Co-Chair of the Family Law Committee from 2007 - 2023. Her service to the family law community earned her the Virginia State Bar Family Law Service Award in 2023.. Cassandra knew as early as 10 years old that she wanted to become a lawyer. In fact, she made a pact with her cousin to open and run a law firm together. Even though he is not part of the same firm, her cousin is also a practicing attorney.. Cassandra majored in business at James Madison University and contemplated going into corporate law, but “family law found me,” she says. It was while clerking for Judge Richard Potter that she was drawn to divorce and child custody cases. What was the attraction? “When it comes to cases involving kids, you can really help the family get through a tough time in a way that leaves everyone with respect for one other,” she says.. Family law also appealed to her business background, given the considerable financial aspects involved when dividing marital assets.“I’m very practical and tell clients my true opinion. We look at things from a cost/benefit approach. It’s important they have realistic expectations.”But first and foremost, Ms. Chin helps her clients understand the divorce process in plain English that they can understand. “I recognize divorce is a strange and new experience for most people and really do try to guide my clients through it with that in mind.”. Accepting nothing less than the best from herself and those who work with her is what drives Cassandra to excel. “If I’m going to do something, it’s going to be done to the best of my ability…plus. I have certain expectations for my work product, and I have to meet my own expectations.”

Before moving to Connecticut and opening Priest Maoz Law, LLC, I was a partner and manager at a Manhattan law firm.  I am also trained and experienced in life and career coaching.  Whether you are divorcing or resolving other conflict or building your own business with intellectual property to protect, I provide a safe comfortable space, and facilitate communication and creative thinking so you can resolve your issues and plan the future.. When I am not working with my business or family clients, I have fun spending time with my husband and three children.  Besides being active in the legal community, I am on the Board of Directors of Woodbridge Aquatic Club and I do my best to find time to volunteer at my children's schools and in my community. I enjoy running and cooking, and I love to read nonfiction.

A little about myself, I have been practicing law for over 18 years. During that time I have seen what the burden of debt can do to individuals and families. If you are buried under a mountain of debt and you don’t think there is any way out. Let me assure you there is. Chapter 7 bankruptcy, Chapter 13 bankruptcy, Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and uncontested divorce is what I specialize in.. When I started this firm over twelve years ago, my goal was to help people better their lives. I want to exceed my clients’ expectations, and guide them through the bankruptcy or divorce process in a low-stress, friendly way that will lead to a higher quality of life. I understand that you are considering filing bankruptcy because finances are tight, and that’s why my fees are typically a fraction of other attorneys in Northern Virginia & Richmond charge.. Call me today for your free no strings attached consultation. We can sit down and see if bankruptcy is the right move for you.