Spanish-Speaking Attorneys

Mr. Concha has over 24 years legal experience and is licensed to practice law by the states of North Carolina and South Carolina. David began his career as an associate in two local firms and garnered experience in various areas of the law including Contract Law, Corporate Law, Divorce, Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, and Family and Business based immigration. In 2004 he chose to established his own firm, The Law Offices of David A. Concha P.C. where he continues to pursue his passion for the law. A member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and The National Immigration Project. David is also registered with the Chamber of Commerce of Spain, for his ability to conduct business in Spanish. David often speaks on immigration issues to a variety of businesses and groups as well having previously participating in a radio program on 1220 AM, on the internet, in Charlotte, North Carolina, serving the Hispanic community. He is a 2007 recipient of La Noticia Community Service Award for his work with the Hispanic community. David also taught a class on Immigration Law at Central Piedmont Community College.

Gregory D. Forsythe

West Palm Beach, FL

Gregory D. Forsythe is a partner at Sternberg | Forsythe, P.A. He has been a Florida lawyer since 1998, licensed to practice in the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Florida. He has 27 years of experience in various civil litigation areas, including workers' compensation, auto accidents, and social security disability.

Beatriz Reardon

Miami, FL

A proud first-generation Cuban-American, Beatriz is deeply rooted in her community and is fluent in both English and Spanish. She was born and raised in Miami, Florida, and is a proud graduate of Florida State University College of Law, a top 40 law school in the nation, where she honed her legal skills and developed a passion for advocating on behalf of those who have been wronged. During her time at Florida State, she was a proud member of the Moot Court team, where she had the distinct privilege of presenting oral arguments in front of the Florida Supreme Court. Throughout her legal career, Beatriz has been committed to providing the highest standard of service to her clients. Her work spans a broad range of personal injury cases, including motor vehicle accidents, slip and fall incidents, and workplace injuries. Beatriz is known for her tenacity, efficiency, and ability to navigate complex legal challenges. Having litigated since graduating law school, Beatriz has successfully represented hundreds of clients and has been instrumental in securing favorable settlements and verdicts. Beatriz prides herself in her pursuit of justice and passion for community. Beyond her legal practice, Beatriz is an active member of the Cuban-American Bar Association and the Florida Justice Association. In her free time, Beatriz enjoys traveling and spending time outdoors with her husband, daughter, and dog, Lola. Beatriz prides herself in her pursuit of justice and passion for community.

Joe C. Pioletti represents clients in individual and commercial bankruptcy, personal injury, wrongful death, worker’s compensation, and criminal defense. He is licensed in Illinois and admitted to practice in several U.S. District Courts.

Mark Sigala

San Jose, CA

Mr. Sigala is an experienced trial attorney and founding partner of Sigala and Stoddard LLP. He is known for his relentless pursuit of justice, recovering multi-million dollar settlements and jury verdicts over his 20-year legal career. He specializes in personal injury cases including car accidents, workplace injuries, dog attacks, and fall accidents. He is fluent in Spanish and active in the local community, having received the 2019 Cesar Chavez Community Champion Award.

Eugenio Mancini

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Eugenio L. Mancini, Jr. is an attorney in the litigation department at The Injury Firm. With a passion for advocating on behalf of those wrongfully injured by the negligence of others, Eugenio aids clients in both English and Spanish. Eugenio graduated from Nova Southeastern University in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts in History. While studying for his undergraduate degree, Eugenio worked for a personal injury law firm as a litigation paralegal. It was there he realized his passion for helping the injured, which led him to attend law school at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law. Since being admitted to practice, Eugenio has dedicated himself exclusively to cases of personal injury. He has experience handling an array of injury matters throughout pre-suit, litigation, mediation, and trial phases. Eugenio strives to utilize his advocacy skills, experience, and personable style to produce favorable client outcomes. In recent years, Mr. Mancini has focused on personal injury cases that include animal attacks, commercial and residential slip and falls, motor vehicle accidents, trucking accidents, medical malpractice, wrongful deaths, negligent security, pedestrian accidents, bicycle accidents and an array of others. Mr. Mancini has acted as the voice for individuals against big insurance organizations and corporations, vigorously fighting for the injured to achieve the best possible outcome to ensure they are rightfully compensated for any and all losses. As a trial attorney, he handles litigation matters throughout the State of Florida and in U.S. District Courts in the Southern District of Florida.

Matthew T. Poelstra

San Diego, CA

Matthew T. Poelstra is a Partner specializing in civil litigation, including personal injury, landlord/tenant, mold/toxic tort, insurance, construction defect, real estate, and homeowners association cases. He graduated cum laude from UC San Diego (2001) and California Western School of Law (2004). He is admitted to practice in California and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. He also speaks fluent Spanish.

Melissa Vazquez-Sanchez

Hartford, CT

Attorney Melissa Vazquez-Sanchez joined Zayas Law Firm as an Associate Trial Attorney in January 2019. Melissa earned a J.D. from Western New England University School of Law. Prior to joining Zayas Law Firm, Melissa provided pro bono legal services in immigration and gained experience in other areas such as criminal defense, civil litigation, and civil rights matters. Melissa also previously worked as a professional rehabilitation counselor, which provides valuable insight into injury recovery, disability, and client advocacy. At Zayas Law Firm, Melissa focuses on personal injury, premises liability, probate matters related to personal injury, insurance coverage, and bad faith litigation.

Breck Barton, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and raised in Rexburg, Idaho, is a founder of Barton Atkinson & Murdoch, P.C. He served as an LDS missionary in Chile, learning Spanish. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Utah with a bachelor's in economics and with honors from J. Reuben Clark Law School of Brigham Young University. He began practicing law in Rexburg in 1976 and founded his own firm in 1984. Breck is an active member and former president (2003-2004) of the Idaho Trial Lawyers Association, receiving the James J. May Award in 2008 as Trial Lawyer of the Year. He is licensed in Idaho and the United States District Court for the District of Idaho. He handles a wide range of cases including medical negligence, personal injury, and business litigation, and is fluent in Spanish.

Brian L. Williams

Emporia, KS

Brian L. Williams is a lifetime Kansan who graduated from Missouri Western State College with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and a minor in Legal Studies, and from the University of Kansas School of Law with his Juris Doctorate. Admitted to practice law in Kansas and the U.S. District Court in 2004, he is a member of several legal associations and focuses his practice on adoption, criminal law, child custody, civil litigation, drug defense, DUI, divorce, forfeitures, and personal injury cases.

Magdalena Cuprys

Miami, FL

Magdalena Cuprys received her Juris Doctor from the University of Washington School of Law in 2002. She was admitted to the practice of law in California in 2003 and in Florida in 2006. Before law school, she completed two bachelor’s degrees, one in Political Science and one in Latin American Studies, at the University of Chicago in 1999. Ms. Cuprys is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and was the Panhellenic President at the University of Chicago. She speaks fluent English, Spanish, and Polish, and is conversant in Russian and Italian. She is the principal attorney of Serving Immigrants (Cuprys and Associates), a full-service immigration law firm offering a complete range of immigration services to both businesses and individuals. She is a seasoned immigration lawyer based in Orlando and Coral Gables, Florida, with years of legal experience working with immigrants of all kinds.

Mark Bratkovsky is the founder and an experienced attorney at the Law Offices of Mark Bratkovsky. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center (1999) and a BA in Sociology from Stony Brook (SUNY) (1993). Admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey State and Federal Courts since 1999, he specializes in Business & Corporate Transactions, Commercial and Residential Real Estate, Criminal Litigation, and Personal Injury. He is fluent in Russian and conversational in Spanish, and is a member of the American Association for Justice, New York State Bar Association, and Brooklyn Bar Association.

Jonathan C. Juhan

Beaumont, TX

Jonathan C. Juhan has over 30 years of trial experience in both state and federal courts. He is board-certified in personal injury law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Jorge Muñoz

Edinburg, TX

Attorney Jorge Muñoz has over 12 years of professional legal experience, focusing on personal injury and criminal defense cases. He takes an educational approach, guiding clients through legal options and providing personal attention to each case. He has recovered millions for clients and is one of the few attorneys qualified to handle attorney signature bonds. He is directly accessible to clients and offers bilingual Spanish services.

Lou Schneider

Louisville, KY

Lou Schneider joined Thomas Law Offices in June 2018, bringing over 15 years of experience from his previous roles. He specializes in business and personal litigation, with demonstrated success in injuries, wrongful death, employment issues, construction, insurance contracts, and real estate. He is licensed in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.

Rudy Gonzales, Jr.

Corpus Christi, TX

Rudy Gonzales, Jr. is a Founding Partner at Gonzales Law Firm. He has over 43 years of experience in personal injury law and has been Board-Certified in Personal Injury Law since 1998. He has tried over 50 cases to a jury, achieving successful verdicts for clients. He previously spent 25 years as a defense lawyer, representing corporate clients and large insurance companies, and now exclusively represents injured individuals. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, has been named a Texas Super Lawyer for 18 years, and holds an AV Preeminent® rating from Martindale-Hubbell®.

M. Cristina Trujillo

Houston, TX

M. Cristina Trujillo is a dedicated litigation attorney at Johnson Garcia LLP. She earned her law degree from South Texas College of Law Houston, where she was a student ambassador and President of the Hispanic Law Students Association. Fluent in Spanish, she serves on the executive board of the Mexican-American Bar Association of Houston and has experience in immigration, criminal law, and personal injury.

Miguel Ubiles

Winter Park, FL

Miguel Ubiles is a dedicated advocate for plaintiffs in first-party property and personal injury matters. Known for rigorous preparation and measured, effective advocacy, he brings a principled commitment to justice and a results-oriented mindset to every case he handles. Mr. Ubiles began his career as a public defender, where he tried numerous cases to verdict and sharpened the courtroom skills that continue to define his practice. He later transitioned to insurance defense, representing major carriers and corporate insureds in first-party property and personal-injury disputes. That experience on both sides of the “v.” gives him a rare, practical understanding of insurer strategies and valuation models-insight he now leverages for policyholders and injured individuals. At Payne Law, PLLC, Mr. Ubiles litigates a broad spectrum of complex property-loss and injury claims, from disputed coverage and undervalued benefits to serious bodily-injury cases. He is known for meticulous case development, clear client communication, and strategic negotiation-pursuing efficient resolutions when possible and trying cases when necessary. Outside the courtroom, he remains active in social-justice causes that align with his core belief in accountability and access to fair outcomes. A tireless worker who genuinely enjoys “fighting the good fight,” Mr. Ubiles is steadfast in pursuing the best attainable results for every client he serves.

Aaron F. Tuley

Evansville, IN

Aaron F. Tuley brings a diverse range of experience to help solve our clients’ legal issues. Before pursuing his legal career, Aaron attended Indiana University, where he rarely missed a home basketball game, and worked for a national public accounting firm. Following his graduation with summa cum laude honors from Indiana University’s Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Aaron joined a large Indianapolis law firm where he represented companies in commercial and environmental lawsuits. Aaron served as a law clerk for Justice Christopher M. Goff of the Indiana Supreme Court for several years, assisting in the decision-making process of Indiana’s highest state court. He was a deputy prosecuting attorney in the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office, handling felony-level cases before joining Tuley Law alongside his father, brother, and sister-in-law in 2022.

Krystina Catarineu

Albuquerque, NM

Krystina is a bilingual attorney in Spanish and English who was born and raised in Puerto Rico. She obtained her bachelor degree in Political Sciences in the State University of New York where she was in the Dean List on multiple occasions and became a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society. She later moved to Washington D.C. to intern at the office of the attorney general of Washington DC, with the Family Service Division, Child Protection Section. During the internship, she helped government attorneys to protect the rights of children victims of parental/domestic abuse. After the legal internship, Krystina learned she was passionate about seeking justice and helping families and she decided to follow her father's steps and pursue a Juris Doctor in the University of Puerto Rico School of Law. While she was in law school she worked as a paralegal drafting insurance policies and as law clerk performing legal research for the Puerto Rico's Insurance Commissioner Auxiliary Trustee after multiple insurance companies went bankrupt due to Hurricane Maria's natural disaster. Once she graduated from law school, Krystrina sat for Puerto Rico's bar exam and passed/tested it in the 99th percentile. In search of better opportunities, Krystina then proceeded to move to Colorado (or the mainland or U.S.) where she gained legal experience in one of Colorado's largest personal injury law firm while she studied for the MultiState Bar Exam. While waiting for New Mexico's Board of Examination admission to New Mexico's bar, Krystina also accrued legal experience helping undocumented immigrants to fix their migratory status and working as a "law clerk" at Genus Law Group.

Steve Trinen

Seattle, WA

With over two decades of practice, Steve Trinen is an experienced lawyer, comfortable in the courtroom, who has successfully handled numerous cases through to a jury verdict. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, where he appeared twice on murder cases. Steve has argued before the Washington Supreme Court more than ten times and also argued before the Alaska Supreme Court. Before joining Puget Law Group, Steve worked for the Pierce County Prosecutor’s Office, handling a wide range of serious criminal cases. For several years he was the county’s lead meth lab prosecutor and is very familiar with the law of search and seizure, having trained law enforcement and the DEA. In addition, he represented the county in civil tort lawsuits, including multiple actions involving claims over a million dollars. These included breach of contract, inverse condemnation, and civil rights violations. Steve also defended a judge who was sued and achieved a complete dismissal of the lawsuit. Between the Prosecutor’s office and Puget law group, Steve was a personal injury attorney in private practice zealously representing the interests of injury victims. He handled several cases involving wrongful death and over a million dollars in damages. As a Judicial Clerk to the Honorable C. Kenneth Grosse of the Washington State Court of Appeals, Steve served for two years after graduating from law school. As a law student, he represented Seattle University in the Jessup International Law competition. His team was the regional champion and the third-placed U.S. team at the international rounds. Steve enjoys tutoring students in reading and English and leading youth activities in his free time. He also studies foreign languages, including French, Spanish, ancient Greek, and Latin, although his work duties have limited his ability to maintain fluency.

Anthony J. Lochiatto

Boston, MA

Anthony J. Lochiatto graduated cum laude with a B.S. from Boston College in 1985 and received his J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1989. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, its Litigation Section, the American Bar Association, its General Litigation Section, and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. Mr. Lochiatto opened his private practice in 1992 and has over two decades of experience handling personal injury and criminal cases. He also speaks Spanish.

Jaime Aird

Orlando, FL

Jaime brings to the Sekou Clarke Law Group a tenacious spirit for litigation and trained eye for detail. Having attained his Bachelor of Business Administration at the Florida International University and his Master of Business Administration at Nova Southeastern University, Jaime set his sights on the law. At the Florida International University College of Law Jaime was exposed to varies aspects of the law through opportunities to assist others in the FIU pro bono clinic, where he spent countless hours giving back to those who could not afford to pay for legal services. After graduating Jaime entered into the legal world as a prosecutor, first at the West Palm Beach State Attorney's Office, then later at the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office. After learning, training, and fighting for the State of Florida, Jaime decided to enter private practice. Jaime took all of his training and experience and started the Law Offices of Jaime A. Aird, P.A., where he practices criminal defense, driving under the influence, immigration and personal injury in South Florida.

Lester J. Friedman

Beverly Hills, CA

Lester J. Friedman, a native of Los Angeles, graduated from UCLA in 1973 and Southwestern School of Law in 1976. He began his legal career representing injured applicants and was a partner at Olan & Friedman before founding the Law Offices of Lester Friedman in 1986, focusing exclusively on California workers' compensation law. He is a Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation law by The State Bar of California and has served on its Board of Legal Specialization. Friedman has been actively involved with the California Applicants’ Attorneys Association (CAAA) since 1990, serving on its board and as Management Chair. He was appointed a Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board Judge Protem in 1984 and an arbitrator in 1990. Recognized as a Super Lawyer since 2005 and a Best Lawyer since 2009, he also has a background in local politics, serving on the Beverly Hills Traffic and Parking Commission and City Council. He is the official scorer for UCLA men’s basketball and NCAA tournaments.