For 25 years, Attorney Adrienne D. Edward has been offering top-notch legal representation to individuals and families throughout New York and New Jersey. Ms. Edward is an experienced Criminal Defense Attorney in New York and New Jersey. She is admitted to practice in the United States District Court of New Jersey, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York State. No matter what your specific circumstances and needs may be, Ms. Edward is committed to developing the best legal strategy to secure the best possible outcome for your case. The Law Office of Adrienne D. Edward P.C. offers comprehensive legal services in the areas of Criminal Defense (State and Federal), Family, Matrimonial, Immigration, and Personal Injury. Our firm has been recognized as one of the “Top 100 Trial Lawyers” by the National Trial Lawyers Association. For reliable and effective representation, reach out to the Law Office of Adrienne D. Edward P.C. today to make an appointment.

An Internationally Renowned Law Firm Based in New York. We handle immigration cases in the United States and all over the world.

Chukwudi M. Chigewe is a practicing lawyer in the state of New Mexico. Attorney Chigewe received his J.D. from the Thomas M. Cooley School of Law in 2014.

Marc Taylor is a practicing attorney in New, York. He handles all phases of immigration, primarily including corporate and family immigration, permanent residence, and citizenship applications.

Byron was born and raised in Long Island, New York. He is a proud descendant of two working-class Guatemalan parents who arrived in the United States in the 1980s and went through the process of becoming legal United States citizens, wanting a better life for their family. Byron witnessed first-hand how complicated the immigration process can be and how the language barrier is a massive issue for many, miscommunications causing the individual to miss dates and not understand procedures or what to do next. Byron acknowledges that he wants to recompense his parent’s struggles to achieve the American Dream by serving as a voice and a gladiator in the courtroom on behalf of his clients. The struggles that his clients experience with the continuing complicated immigration process empowered Byron to gain a broad cultural awareness, which motivated Byron to help the same working-class Latino communities with their legal matters near and dear to his heart. Byron graduated from New York’s highly-ranked college Binghamton University and received his law degree from Florida Coastal School of Law. Byron volunteered his afternoons and evenings while attending college and law school to advocate on behalf of the client to resolve immigration related-matters and defend the client against deceptive and illegal consumer practices under the supervision of an attorney. In college, Byron volunteered with the New York Attorney General’s Office in Binghamton’s Bureau of Consumer Frauds and Protection unit, which is part of the Economic Justice Division, to advocate on behalf of consumers suffering fraudulent, misleading, and deceptive, and illegal consumer practices, and to prosecute businesses and individuals engaging in those deceptive practices. In law school, Byron volunteered at his law school’s immigration clinic, sponsored by the Vera Institute of Justice under Vera’s Unaccompanied Children Program to provide legal representation to immigrant children from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, and placed in immigration proceedings. Byron’s law school clinic appointed him as the go-to person to train and manage other law students participating in the immigration clinic to prepare asylum, family-based petitions, and citizenship immigration petitions on behalf of the clinic’s clients. Byron’s dedication to helping others is a testament to his work. Byron is fluent in Spanish, and he has appeared as a legal advisor to educate the Latino community on the continuing changes to the immigration laws, as they happen quickly and can significantly affect people’s lives, on monumental television networks, such as Telemundo, Univision, and other national Latino mornings programs such as Vision Latina and TV Azteca. Byron serves as the point of contact in his Great Neck community for non-native speakers and those who need legal representation, and he opens the door to clients who continue to struggle to access it. Byron’s clients chose to work with his boutique law firm because of his extreme diligence, keen eye for detail, commitment to his client’s needs, and confidence in his approach to solutions to his client’s matters.

With more than 30 years of litigation and appellate experience as both a former New York City homicide prosecutor and defense attorney, Mr. Gonzalez has served as lead counsel on more than two hundred trials on charges ranging from murder, manslaughter, vehicular homicides, armed robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, drug distribution, rape, child molestation, child pornography, rape and aggravated sexual offenses, grand larceny, embezzlement, and fraud. Mr. Gonzalez is also an accomplished civil litigator having appeared in State and Federal courts throughout New York State.

VMW LAW is a general service law firm in New York City which was founded in 2004. With a broad array of legal services, the firm is dynamic and very proactive. A partial list of practice areas include: Real Estate, Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, Criminal Defense, Civil Litigation and Immigration. Visit the Practice Areas page for more details. We pride ourselves with delivering innovative legal solutions in a cost effective manner. While as a general policy we do NOT guarantee any outcome for legal matters, we are result-oriented and driven to secure the best possible outcome for our clients.Avvo Badge Clients get personalized attention. Through constant research and an interdisciplinary approach effective, novel, and creative solutions are found to legal issues in the New York jurisdiction.

Leonard X. Gillespie is a practicing attorney serving Brooklyn, New York.

Leslie Akst earned her B.A. in Psychology from Wellesley College in 1973. She graduated from Princeton University with an M.A. in Psychology in 1975, and from Fordham Law School with a J.D. in 1978 where she was also a member of the Law Review. As a member of the Fordham Law Review, she published an article on the New York Art Market. Mrs. Akst is admitted to the New York State and Federal Bars. Before joining Akst & Akst, she clerked for the Surrogate of New York County. Upon joining Akst & Akst, she acted as a closing counsel for Chemical Bank’s residential mortgage department for four years where she represented the bank in numerous mortgage closings.

George Akst received his B.A. in Economics from Boston University in 1972. He attended The Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands in 1973 and received his J.D. from Fordham Law School in 1976 where he was a member of the Urban Law Journal. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1977 and is admitted to practice in the New York Federal Courts and US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He has been a Member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association since 1984 where he has spoken on numerous topics, including visas for artists, athletes, and entertainers. He is a member of the Union Internationale Des Avocats, the Paris based International Bar Association, where he has spoken on such various issues as U.S. visa investment opportunities and human trafficking. Mr. Akst is a former Adjunct Professor of Business and Real Estate Law, at both Long Island University and at the Borough of Manhattan Community College from 1979-1981.