COLUMN = IMMIGRATION LAW
Attorney Cynthia Hemphill is vice president and legal team manager at the DC-based immigration law firm Trow & Rahal, PC. She has practiced immigration and nationality law for more than 14 years. In addition to working to achieve the goals of Trow & Rahal’s corporate clients, she handles immigration matters for athletes, and performing artists and groups, as well as for family-related matters including international adoption cases.
Cynthia’s reputation within the legal community has led to selection by her peers for inclusion in the prestigious publication, “The Best Lawyers in America.” She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the Women’s Bar Association, and the District of Columbia and New York State Bar Associations.
She has written and/or co-authored a number of articles on family immigration matters. She wrote, “Hague Adoption Convention Implemented in the U.S.,” published in the September/October 2008 issue of The Maryland Bar Journal. She co-wrote “Intercountry Adoptions: Procedures and Potential Issues After Ratification of the Hague Adoption Convention,” which was published in AILA’s “International Adoption Sourcebook” (2008); “Intercountry Adoptions: Understanding the Procedures One Year After Implementation of the Hague Adoption Convention,” published by AILA in 2009; and “When Relationships Are Amended: How Changes in Family Relationships Can Affect Our Sense of Time,” soon to be published in the AILA National Conference 2010 resource materials.
At the 2008 AILA National Conference (Vancouver, British Columbia), Cynthia spoke on “Adoption and Related Immigration Issues After the Hague Convention” and is slated to be a guest speaker on family immigration matters on a panel at the 2010 AILA National Conference in National Harbor, MD. Cynthia is an editor of the Women’s Bar Association newsletter, “Raising the Bar.”
Cynthia received her JD degree from the Howard University School of Law in 1993. She received her BA degree in Psychology from Yale University in 1983.