French-Speaking Attorneys

T. Lambert Tamin

Newark, NJ

T. Lambert Tamin is a seasoned and experienced practitioner in the areas of Real Estate, Family Law, Personal Injury and Commercial Litigation. He is also adept at handling matters before Planning and Zoning Boards. Attorney Tamin has an extensive range of experience with real estate transactions including representing sellers/buyers in Title Closings. He has successfully handled thousands of trials and hearings in family court involving many aspects of family law like Adoptions, Child abuse/Neglect, Child Custody/Support, Domestic Violence, Parental Rights, Juvenile Delinquency and Divorce actions. His litigation experience includes Commercial Litigation and plaintiff representation in Personal Injury matters.

MOHAMED EL RASHIDY

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Mohamed El Rashidy serves as of counsel to The EH Law Firm LLP in the Toronto, Canada office. Fluent in French, English, and Arabic, he has vast advocacy experience since 2001, beginning as a legal representative in 2004. He manages a full-service firm in the Greater Toronto Area, focusing on Criminal Law, Civil Litigation, Personal Injury, Family law, and Community Advocacy. Mohamed obtained his Honors Bachelor degree from the University of Toronto and his Juris Doctor from the University of Manitoba. He has worked on cases before various courts in Ontario and Canada, and is a legal advisor to several organizations.

Nicholas T. Delaney

Paramus, NJ

Nicholas T. Delaney is a Partner at Houghton Delaney PC. He joined the firm as an associate attorney in 2019 after serving as a law clerk since 2006. He handles a broad range of civil matters including personal injury, family law, and estate law.

Wayne Resmini

Cranston, RI

Wayne G. Resmini is a Personal Injury Attorney with over 30 years of experience, admitted to practice in Rhode Island and Massachusetts state and federal courts. He began his career as a union bricklayer before pursuing law, graduating from Providence College and the University of Massachusetts Law School. Known for his dedication, he prioritizes client relationships, offers 24/7 availability, and ensures personalized attention to each case. His background in construction provides unique insight into premises liability and workplace injury cases.

Judith A. Wayne

Salem, MA

Judith A. Wayne is an attorney with over 30 years of experience in civil and criminal litigation, including family law, divorce, criminal defense, and personal injury. She served as an Assistant District Attorney for Middlesex County and is a state-certified mediator. She is fluent in French and conversant in Spanish.

B. Ross Pringle

Austin, TX

B. Ross Pringle is a shareholder at Wright & Greenhill, P.C., with over 40 jury trials to his credit. He represents insurers, businesses, governmental entities, and individuals in a broad range of civil litigation, including personal injury, wrongful death, and employment matters. He has been selected to Texas Super Lawyers® magazine from 2015-2025 and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates.

HUSSEIN SONY EL RASHIDY

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Hussein Sony El Rashidy is a Board Certified Trial Lawyer and a founding and Managing Partner at The EH Law Firm L.L.P. He specializes in personal injury and criminal defense, co-founding the firm with the belief that every case should be prepared for a jury trial. He received his law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School and a B.A. from the University of Toronto. He is admitted to practice in Florida State Court, the Federal Court in the Southern District of Florida, and Ontario, Canada. He is trilingual, speaking English, Arabic, and French. Prior to the firm, he served seven years as an Assistant State Attorney in Florida, prosecuting thousands of criminal cases and trying over 50 cases, and later worked at a prestigious personal injury firm.

Christine Mougin-Boal

Leesburg, VA

Chris grew up in a multi-cultural home and lived in New York, Alaska and California. She is a fluent French speaker. Chris graduated from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1982 and obtained her law degree from St. John’s University School of Law in New York in 1987. She has maintained licenses to practice law in Virginia, the District of Columbia, and New York but currently practices solely in Virginia. Christine Mougin-Boal has called western Loudoun County her home since 1988. Chris began practicing law in 1988 in Fairfax, Virginia with a civil defense litigation firm focusing on personal injury and medical malpractice defense. In addition to litigating numerous cases, Chris prepared the majority of all appeals to the Virginia Supreme Court for the firm. In 1994, when Chris and her colleague Rhonda Paice established the firm of Paice & Mougin-Boal, P.C. in Leesburg, Virginia. Since that date, Chris’s practice has focused on all aspects of domestic relations litigation, including child custody and visitation, support issues, property division, and divorce as well as appeals of domestic cases to the Court of Appeals. In addition, Chris has represented petitioners and respondents in adult guardianship and conservatorship cases and has worked on adoption matters. She has also been qualified by the Virginia Supreme Court as a guardian ad litem for both children and incapacitated adults. Chris has practiced in most courts in Northern Virginia but now generally limits her practice to Loudoun County. In 2018 Chris was trained in the practice of Collaborative Law, an emerging and exciting approach to resolving many different kinds of conflict situations but especially suited for domestic family matters. The Collaborative Law process provides a holistic and healthy forum for parties to work toward a resolution of all issues arising out of the separation and divorce with the goal of keeping divorcing parties out of court. The parties work with a team of professionals, namely attorneys, financial professionals and coaches trained in mental health issues, to reach a global settlement that resolves all divorce issues and that provides a foundation of better communication and conflict resolution strategies and post-divorce co-parenting mechanisms. This new approach to resolving divorce conflicts as well as mediation training Chris began in 2020 has provided Chris’s clients additional options to resolve their separation and divorce matters. Over her extensive history of working in the family law sector Chris has developed an excellent reputation as a domestic relations practitioner and litigator held in high esteem by her peers. In 2013 Chris was appointed by the Virginia Supreme Court to serve as a faculty member for the Virginia State Bar Harry L. Carrico Professionalism Course and served a three year term. In 2020 Chris was honored to be inducted into the Virginia Law Fellows Class of 2020. This honor is granted to Virginia lawyers of integrity and character who are recognized as outstanding in their profession and communities. Approximately one percent of attorneys and retired judges have been named Fellows in Virginia. In conjunction with practicing law, Chris has been actively involved in state and local bar associations. She is a Past President of the Virginia Women Attorneys Association (2010-2011) and Board Member of the state VWAA Board (2006-2014). Chris was one of the founding board members of the Loudoun Chapter of the VWAA, acting as Vice-President (2002-2003) and President (2004-2006) as well as Treasurer on two separate occasions. Through her association with the VWAA, Chris has spearheaded various pro bono and community-based events including the local Adoption Day Program for Loudoun County and Empty Bowls Projects as well as a state-wide conference in 2010 entitled Diversity and the Practice of Law: New Clients, New Perspectives, New Challenges. During her time practicing in Loudoun, Chris has consistently participated in local bar activities for the Loudoun County Bar Association. Chris has also devoted her time to Virginia State Bar activities. From 2006-2012 she was a member of the Special Committee on Lawyer Referral, a service designed to assist the public in obtaining referrals for local attorneys. In 2013 Chris began a three year elected term as a member of the Virginia State Bar Council, the body generally charged with the administration of the affairs of the Virginia State Bar. Chris became a member of the Virginia State Bar’s Conference of Local and Specialty Bar Associations in 2017 and currently sits as Secretary for the Conference.

Eui Chul Lee

Fort Lee, NJ

Eui Chul Lee, Esq. (a.k.a. E.C.) is an associate at Jae Lee Law, P.C. He was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Purdue University and his Juris Doctorate from Rutgers Law School - Newark. During law school, E.C. actively participated in the Child Advocacy Clinic, where he represented neglected and abused minors seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile Status. He also contributed to the Intellectual Property Law Clinic, assisting non-profit organizations, low-income individuals, and start-up businesses with issues related to business, contracts, and intellectual property. Currently, E.C. is a member of the litigation team at Jae Lee Law, P.C., focusing his practice on personal injury litigation, including motor vehicle accidents and premises liability cases. He is admitted to practice law in both New Jersey and New York. Fluent in Korean, and proficient in conversational French, E.C. brings a diverse skill set to his legal practice.

Grant Godfrey

Sarasota, FL

Grant Godfrey brings decades of advocacy experience to the appellate law practice at mctlaw. He represents clients in federal and state courts nationwide, and works closely with trial teams to anticipate and prepare for issues on appeal. He is presently working on vaccine injury, medical product liability, and federal real property takings cases. Mr. Godfrey is currently an elected council member in University Park, Maryland, where he serves as Mayor Pro Tem and chairs the Policy, Rules & Municipal Structure Committee. His public service reflects a career-long commitment to transparent and accountable government.

John N. Lipsitz

Buffalo, NY

John Ned Lipsitz is a founding partner of Lipsitz, Ponterio & Comerford, LLC, representing workers with industrial diseases like asbestosis and mesothelioma since 1985. He served on the clinical faculty of Buffalo Law School and has handled a wide variety of cases, including class actions, wrongful employment termination, and childhood lead poisoning. He has successfully argued numerous appeals before state and federal appellate courts.

Emily Vechan

Houston, TX

Emily Vechan is a Lead Trial Attorney at Sneed & Mitchell LLP. She has been committed to helping people obtain justice since 2005. Emily is recognized for obtaining one of the 'Top 10 Personal Injury Verdicts in Texas in 2021' and successfully pioneered a novel theory of liability against Amazon.com in federal court in 2022. In April 2024, she recovered over a million dollars for a nurse in a bench trial. Her cases have resulted in over one hundred million dollars in gross recovery. She handles cases involving 18-wheelers, workplace injuries, defective products, car collisions, wrongful death, maritime incidents, and premises liability. Emily is also a linguaphile, having studied French, Latin, Arabic, Greek, and Spanish.

George Ellard

San Francisco, CA

George Ellard has been litigating over 30 years, the last 25 representing injured plaintiffs and their families. George began his law career defending medical professionals and gathered valuable experience understanding the defense perspective in medical malpractice cases. Since then, George has been handling matters involving professional malpractice, personal injury, products liability, dangerous conditions, premises liability, motorcycle, trucking, workplace and wrongful death cases. Over the years, George’s clients have suffered amputations, brain injuries, quadriplegia, paraplegia, spinal injuries, joint, bone and internal injuries and burns. In workplace injury matters, George litigates OSHA appeal trials before the California Administrative Law Court for clients to ensure responsible parties are accountable for their negligent acts. George has tried cases in both state and federal courts.

Oliver Tobias, Esq.

New York, NY

Oliver Tobias is a seasoned personal injury attorney with a meticulous eye for detail, overseeing the discovery process and cultivating associate skills at EEP Law since 2013. He has tried numerous cases to verdict and has a reputation for excellence in drafting complex motions and appeals in state and federal courts. Fluent in German and French, he applies his mastery of procedural law to zealously fight for clients injured due to negligence.

Alex Senft

Dania Beach, FL

Alex Senft is a personal injury lawyer at The Law Offices of Scott Jay Senft, part of a multilingual team serving clients in English, Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, and Portuguese.

Scott Senft

Dania Beach, FL

Scott Senft is a personal injury lawyer and the founder of The Law Offices of Scott Jay Senft, with over 30 years of experience helping accident victims recover compensation. He is part of a multilingual team serving clients in English, Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, and Portuguese.

Camron Dowlatshahi

Los Angeles, CA

Camron prides himself on providing personalized care and attention to his wide array of clients. Camron’s practice primarily involves employment, entertainment, and personal injury cases. He has litigated matters involving sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination, wage and hour violations, racial discrimination, wrongful death, defamation, and trademark infringement, among other cases.

Paul J. Perkins

White River Junction, VT

Selected by Super Lawyers as a top-rated personal injury, business litigation and criminal defense lawyer, Paul J. Perkins has over twenty-five years of experience representing plaintiffs in complex personal injury, wrongful death, professional malpractice, fraud, Qui Tam, and consumer protection cases, as well as injured workers and individuals in business disputes and criminal defense. He has extensive trial experience, has taught trial practice at Vermont Law School, and is a former Chair of the Insurance Law Section of the Vermont Bar Association. He is also an adjunct professor at Vermont Law and Graduate School and a former U.S. Navy Special Warfare/Special Operations Deep Sea Diver.

Pascale Norris

New York, NY

Pascale Norris is a senior attorney at Urban Thier & Federer, P.A., managing the Paris, France office. She is a member of both the New York and Paris Bars, specializing in commercial litigation, dispute resolution, and contracts law in France. She is trilingual (French, English, and German) and has over 25 years of experience. Her expertise includes representing corporations in French civil and commercial courts for product liability, contract, tort, personal injury, construction, unfair competition, and distribution matters, often involving cross-border litigation. She also negotiates and drafts agreements under French law and assists with corporate governance.

Jeanette DeWitt-Kyle

Lake Charles, LA

Jeanette DeWitt-Kyle is a lifelong resident of Southwest Louisiana. She joined Stutes & Lavergne in 2012. Her practice focuses solely on helping people who have been injured in automobile, truck, industrial, work-related, and other serious accidents. She also helps people who have bad-faith claims against their own insurance companies. Her persistent, passionate advocacy has led to millions of dollars in recovery for her clients in both settlements and trial awards. Jeanette went to school in Moss Bluff and graduated from Sam Houston High School. After high school, she attended the McNeese State University Honors College, graduating summa cum laude in 2008 with two degrees, one in English and one in French. While she was in college, she worked a swing shift on the copy desk at the Lake Charles American Press. After college, Jeanette attended law school at Louisiana State University, graduating with honors in 2011. While in law school, Jeanette consistently earned high grades, including the top grades in her legal writing, family law seminar, Louisiana civil procedure, and family law classes. She was a member of the Moot Court Board and participated in the Law Center’s family law mediation clinic. Jeanette chose to return home to Lake Charles after law school. She clerked for Judge David Ritchie at the Fourteenth Judicial District Court before she joined Stutes & Lavergne. In 2015, she studied case presentation in Napa, Calif., with the well-known trial strategist Rodney Jew. She is a member of the Southwest Louisiana Bar Association, Louisiana State Bar Association, and Louisiana Association for Justice. Jeanette believes that a good education opens doors, and it is the duty of everyone who has benefited from their education to hold that door open for others. She teaches a U.S. Government class to tenth-graders at Bishop Noland High School, where is she is grateful for a chance to witness the origin story of future senators, surgeons, inventors, and writers. All of Jeanette’s career and personal achievements have had the unconditional support of her amazing husband, Trevor. They have two young children: a son and a daughter. In Jeanette’s spare time, she enjoys growing English roses, reading literary novels, and planning road trips with her family. She loves to learn and is always in the middle of a deep dive into a new and interesting subject. Her son is the same way; both he and his mom enjoy staying up past bedtime to talk about big ideas. Jeanette’s daughter belongs to a lineage of women who value their intellect and are unafraid to use it.

George Riedel

Tacoma, WA

George was born and raised in Washington, but spent most of his adult life living out-of-state, moving to Madagascar at age 19, and then living everywhere from Idaho, to Virginia, to Utah, before settling in New Orleans for 13 years, where he attended law school and began his career as an attorney. Prior to law school, George worked as an insurance adjuster for several years for Farmers Insurance. After law school he began his legal career as a defense attorney for GEICO Insurance, where he successfully represented his clients in dozens of court hearings and trials in state and federal courts. With over a decade of experience working within the insurance field, George has unique insight into the mechanics of the claims process. Four years ago, George transitioned from defense work to representing plaintiffs, initially helping victims of Louisiana hurricanes receive fair compensation for their destroyed homes after insurance companies underpaid or outright denied property damage claims. The mountains of the Pacific Northwest were calling, and George returned to his home state after a two-decade absence and was fortunate to come aboard with the Freeman Law Firm, representing victims of car accidents. George is motivated and passionate about ensuring his clients receive the best outcome possible from their claims, and has developed a track record of favorable results in court and higher settlement values outside of court.

Giovanna Mabile

New York City, NY

Prior to working at Merson Law, Ms. Mabile was a lawyer in Brazil working for the government, as a judicial law clerk. Ms. Mabile then came to the United States and earned her law degree from Brooklyn Law School. She is licensed to practice law in the State of New York. Giovanna frequently appears in Court, taking and defending depositions on wrongful death, birth injury and child abuse cases. The cases are very challenging for the client and Ms. Mabile offers compassion to her clients, but is also a zealous advocate on their behalf.

Fred Augonnet

Philadelphia, PA

Fred Augonnet is an attorney at Lundy Law. During law school, he was an active member of Alianza del Derecho and volunteered at the Workplace Justice Project. He gained personal injury experience clerking for a public utility's litigation department. After law school, he contributed to a software company's in-house legal department as a junior corporate counsel. He has been selected as a Rising Star for 2019 through 2023 in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers. He is natively fluent in French and Spanish. He graduated from Tulane University in 2009 with a degree in political science and Spanish, and earned his law degree from Tulane University Law School in 2013.

Raphael Qiu

Houston, TX

Raphael has successfully represented clients (ranging from individuals to corporations like ExxonMobil and Mitsubishi) on personal injury (car and trucking accidents, premises liability, and toxic torts) and other tort and insurance cases in addition to business and construction litigation and transactions. Having lived in China and the US, Raphael has experience working with and counseling both international (including Chinese and Singaporean) and domestic clients on legal strategies in order to grow and add value to their businesses. Raphael speaks Mandarin Chinese (native proficiency) and French (conversational proficiency). He constantly seeks to communicate timely and work closely with his clients and develop innovative strategies in order to efficiently and effectively resolve their legal issues.