Russian-Speaking Attorneys

Armen Merjanian

Glendale, CA

Armen Merjanian is a seasoned trial attorney defending individuals against state and federal charges across Texas and the United States. He is licensed in California, Florida, New York, and Texas. He earned a BS from the University of Florida in 2004 and a JD from South Texas College of Law in 2012. He has operated his legal practice since 2014.

Sabina Sadykhova

Oakland, CA

Sabina Sadykhova, born in Baku, Azerbaijan, immigrated to the U.S. at age nine and was raised in San Francisco. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Legal Studies from UC Berkeley in 2006 and her J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law in 2010. Sabina began practicing law in 2011, initially representing plaintiffs in various litigation areas, then transitioned to defense work, gaining experience in all phases of litigation. She joined Venardi Zurada, LLP, returning to her passion for advocating for those who may not have a voice.

Marianna Moliver

Tenafly, NJ

Marianna Moliver, Esq. focuses her practice on domestic and international Estate Planning, Elder Law, and Probate/Administration of Estates and Trusts. She advises on wealth preservation, probate avoidance, estate and gift tax planning, elder law planning, family business planning, asset protection, and Estate Planning for Non-U.S. Citizens and Foreign Nationals. She also handles residential and commercial Real Estate transactions. Marianna received her J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and her B.A. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. She is licensed in New York and New Jersey and speaks Russian fluently. She was named a Super Lawyer Rising Star in Estate Planning & Probate in 2014 and 2015.

Tanya Gendelman

Brooklyn, NY

Tanya Gendelman is a highly experienced New York personal injury attorney with over 25 years of experience in civil tort litigation. Her areas of expertise include automobile and other motor vehicle accidents, wrongful death, workplace accidents, and medical malpractice. She has helped clients win millions in compensation.

Sylvia Manukyan

Los Angeles, CA

Supervising Case Manager with over 27 years of experience in personal injury cases. Fluent in English, Armenian, Russian, and Spanish, she builds strong client connections.

Karen Hakobyan is a partner at H&A Law Office, PC, representing clients in employment law and personal injury matters. He advocates for employees in state and federal courts and arbitration, handling cases like wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and wage and hour violations. He also represents individuals in personal injury cases. Karen earned his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley Law School and is fluent in Armenian and Russian.

Dmitry Gorin

Encino, CA

Dmitry Gorin is a partner at Eisner Gorin LLP and a State-Bar Certified Criminal Law Specialist. He has been selected annually to the Top 100 Super Lawyers List in California and recognized as a Top White Collar Crime Lawyer by the Daily Journal. With over three decades of experience in the criminal justice system, including serving as a Senior Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles County, he specializes in complex criminal defense matters in state and federal courts nationwide. He is also an Adjunct Law Professor at UCLA and Pepperdine University School of Law.

Michael A. Lange

Ladera Ranch, CA

Michael A. Lange has been defending large corporations since 2011, licensed in Florida and California. He handles catastrophic injuries, sexual assaults, and death cases in federal and state courts, and has experience arbitrating in the U.S. and internationally. He speaks Russian and is working towards Spanish fluency.

Jeffrey Schwab

Moses Lake, WA

Jeff began working for Calbom & Schwab in 1989, first as a paralegal while attending Gonzaga Law School, then as an attorney. His work experience has always involved helping others. He has carried this desire to help other people into the practice of law. Since joining the law firm, Jeff has focused his practice on helping injured and disabled people. Jeff knows from personal experience what it is like to be disabled, having been limited to a wheelchair and a hospital bed for six consecutive months, and unable to take his first steps without a walking support device for another three months after that. Jeff understands what it is like to depend on others for just about everything from this experience as a temporarily disabled person. His passion for helping his clients is further impassioned by this experience. Jeff has litigated worker’s compensation cases all the way up to the Washington State Supreme Court. In fact, you may have even seen his oral argument at the Washington State Supreme Court when it was broadcasted on CSPAN-2. He has also litigated Social Security Disability/SSI cases from the hearing level up to the United States District Courts in Washington State. Jeff speaks English and Spanish and has recently undertaken to learn Russian. Outside of the practice of law, Jeff enjoys weightlifting, tennis, playing guitar, and landscape photography. But his biggest joy is always the time he spends with his two adult daughters and their families. And when the Seahawks play, his friends and relatives know not to try to interrupt him as he is glued to the TV and often wears a Seahawks jersey, convinced that this counts for some small percentage of their victories.

Oksana Tyskova

Lafayette, CA

Oksana Tsykova is the daughter of two physicians. She focuses her practice on physician license and immigration issues, jury trials and criminal defense. Oksana is the medical group’s immigration expert. She has extensive experience with Physician Visa issues and the Marin County Superior Court defense panel has retained her as the expert consultant on immigration law for their cases. Oksana is completely fluent in Ukrainian and Russian.

Inna Gorin

Encino, CA

Inna Gorin, the founding Partner of Injury Justice Law Firm, modeled the Firm after her ideals and principles of what skilled, aggressive, and tenacious representation of individual clients should embody. Her mission is to level the playing field and provide her clients with the same level of representation that insurance companies enjoy on the other side. Ms. Gorin has extensive experience representing clients in state and federal courts in high-stakes cases, including wrongful death, catastrophic injury, and other serious injury cases. She has lectured to other lawyers on personal injury litigation for several years. She is passionate about her work and devoted to her clients, consistently achieving outstanding results. She has recovered millions of dollars in settlements for her clients. Inna has a reputation as a tenacious, ethical, and credible lawyer, who promotes settlement when possible, but is willing and able to litigate cases in the best interests of her clients. She contributes to educating other legal professionals by serving as a member of the Executive Committee of the Personal Injury Law Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. She is also a regular contributor on AVVO, where she has received the highest rating of 10/10 Superb. She gives back to the community by working with Bet Tzedek Legal Services assisting Holocaust survivors. A victim of a serious car accident herself as a teenager, Inna knows the pain and anxiety her clients endure every day.

Jose M. Padilla

The Woodlands, TX

José has been practicing law since 2000 with a focus on corporate transactions, healthcare, and venture capital. He has expertise in healthcare transactions and regulations, and previously worked as general counsel for a physician-owned healthcare system and an international gaming company. He teaches health law for NYU’s Masters of Public Health program and speaks several foreign languages.

Anna Gavrysh

Melville, NY

Anna Ivanenko Gavrysh, Esq. joined Futterman Lanza, LLP in December 2024 as an Associate. She specializes in estate planning, Medicaid Planning, probate, administration, estate litigation, and Article 81 guardianships. Fluent in Russian and Ukrainian, she also handles residential real estate closings and receives court appointments as a Court Evaluator.

Gary N. Anderson

Logan, UT

Gary N. Anderson advises clients in business law, estate planning, probate, employment law, ERISA, and civil/commercial litigation. He has over 30 years of experience and has served in various civil capacities and community organizations. He was admitted to practice law in Utah in 1974 and speaks Russian.

Alexandra Wagner

Houston, TX

Alexandra Wagner is an attorney who has dedicated her career to advocating for injured individuals and public agencies against corporate misconduct. She began her career at Ness Motley (now Motley Rice and Rogers Patrick), contributing to the successful $200+ billion payout from Big Tobacco. She specializes in briefing and motions practice, working with law firms nationwide on cases involving defective product design and manufacture, defective building construction, pharmaceutical price-gouging, employee mistreatment, and other corporate misconduct. She is based in Dallas, has raised four children, and is involved in local public education and community life. She speaks fluent German, some Spanish, and a tiny bit of Russian and French.

Joanna Plonska joined David Horowitz, P.C. in September 2019. Her practice focuses on drafting pleadings for personal injury actions. Prior to this, she was a defense attorney, bringing a dual perspective to her cases.

Diana Bronnberg

Garden City, NY

Diana Bronnberg, Esq. is a top-rated Attorney in NYC and Long Island specializing in Workers’ Compensation and Social Security Disability. With 18 years of experience, she advocates for injured workers, skillfully negotiates settlements, and educates clients on their rights. She is a founding partner, born in the former Soviet Union, and graduated with honors from SUNY Stony Brook and New York Law School. She is the Vice President of the Workers’ Compensation Bar Association and a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, Women’s Bar Association, Top 50 Women in Business, and New York Chiropractic Association.

Olga Stambler

Chicago, IL

Olga Stambler is a partner at Hurst, Robin, Kay & Allen, LLC with almost 30 years of legal experience, focusing exclusively on family law. She handles all aspects of domestic relations litigation, including child support, maintenance, custody, visitation, marital estates, post-decree matters, pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements, and grandparent/sibling visitation. Olga is a Cook County Domestic Relations Division court-approved mediator, trained in Collaborative Practice, and an adjunct professor at DePaul University College of Law teaching Family Law Mediation.

Arseni Kusakin

Miami, FL

Arseni Kusakin is an Associate Attorney at Aigen Injury Law. Originally from Belarus, Arseni grew up in New York City before moving to Miami, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Florida International University in 2020. He then attended Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad College of Law, where he distinguished himself academically and in advocacy competitions. Originally from Belarus, Arseni has been working alongside Scott Aigen since 2019, gaining invaluable experience in personal injury law even before beginning law school. Arseni was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2024 and is dedicated to making a positive impact on the lives of his clients. Arseni earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Florida International University in December 2020 before pursuing his Juris Doctor at Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad College of Law. During his time at Nova, he distinguished himself academically and in advocacy, serving as Assistant Executive Editor for Nova Law Review Volume 48 and earning CALI Awards (Highest Grade) in Contract Law and Trial Advocacy. He maintained consistent academic excellence, appearing on the Dean’s List from Fall 2021 through Winter 2024. His advocacy skills earned him recognition as the winner of the 9th Annual Mark Dobson 1L Closing Argument Competition and recipient of the Order of Barristers. Arseni represented Nova as a semi-finalist in the regional Texas Young Lawyers Association (TYLA) Competition and as a national competitor in both the Cleveland Case Classic Competition and the TYLA Competition. He also served as a Contract Law Teaching Assistant for Professor Shu-Acquaye. Arseni believes in providing compassionate support to those who have been injured, helping them navigate the legal process and develop solutions when they’re often feeling their lowest. In fact, that’s what he loves most about practicing law: having the privilege of helping people during some of their most challenging times.

Ludwig Alban

Boston, MA

Ludwig Alban, one of the firm’s five attorneys, concentrates his practice in all aspects of real estate law, wills and trusts, probate of estates, and business transactions.

Caroline Lewis

Little Rock, AR

Caroline Curry Lewis concentrates her practice in Bankruptcy Law and Social Security SSI/SSDI. Caroline is licensed to practice in all federal courts within the state of Arkansas. Caroline C. Lewis is originally from Gurdon, Arkansas. Caroline obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian and Political Science from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. She earned her Master of Arts degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Kansas in 1998. Caroline enrolled in law school at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and obtained her law degree in 2002. While in law school, she served as the Research Editor of the Arkansas Law Review. Caroline clerked for the Honorable William R. Wilson, Jr., of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas for two years after completing law school. Caroline joined The Brad Hendricks Law Firm January in 2009. Caroline has served as the firm’s Managing Bankruptcy Attorney since 2013. Little Rock’s Best Bankruptcy Attorney 2021 - 2ndyear to be named. In 2014, she was recognized by Soirée Magazine as the Best Bankruptcy Lawyer and was a nominee by the American Institute of Bankruptcy Attorneys for the “10 Best” Attorneys in the State of Arkansas.

Kareen Movsesyan

Palm Coast, FL

Associate Attorney at Chiumento Law. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and earned his JD and a Certificate in Trial Advocacy and Litigation from Temple University Beasley School of Law in 2020. He was admitted to the Florida Bar in May 2022. His practice areas include Civil Litigation (Appeals, Contract Disputes, Landlord-Tenant Law, Personal Injury, Probate) and Real Estate. He is fluent in Russian.

Giorgi Goshadze

Chicago, IL

Giorgi Goshadze is an associate attorney with the firm. He began his career with the Law Office of Kevin M. O’Brien in 2017 as a law clerk before becoming an attorney with the firm. Giorgi focuses his practice on plaintiff personal injury and workers’ compensation litigation, including automobile and trucking accidents, wrongful death, dog bites, premises liability, and bicycle and scooter accidents, with a special focus on trucking cases. Throughout his career, he has recovered multiple six- and seven-figure settlements on behalf of his clients. Giorgi earned his Bachelor of Laws from Tbilisi State University in 2015. He later received both his LL.M. and J.D. (cum laude) from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2017 and 2020. Giorgi is a member of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and the Illinois State Bar Association. He speaks English, Georgian, and Russian languages.

Olga Baginski

New York, NY

Olga Baginski is an associate attorney at Block O’Toole & Murphy, fluent in English, Polish, and Russian. She began as a paralegal at the firm and is now dedicated to representing injured clients, particularly within the Spanish-speaking community. She holds a law degree from Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno and an LL.M. from Fordham University School of Law.