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Alan M. Parra is a founding partner of the Law Offices of Alan M. Parra, PLLC. Alan has practiced immigration law for more than 10 years. Prior to joining private practice, Alan worked as a Human Rights Officer at the UN High Commissioner where he was responsible for mandates established by the then UN Commission on Human Rights on Sudan, torture and independence of judges and lawyers. In this position he participated in dozens of fact-finding missions to all regions of the world to investigate gross violations of human rights. Among the missions he undertook were trips to Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Peru, Colombia, Pakistan, Turkey, Northern Ireland and Russia. Since leaving the United Nations, Alan has devoted himself to guiding his clients through the complex immigration process. Having witnessed first-hand the atrocities committed by governments around the world and a deep empathy for the suffering experienced by survivors of torture, he has a passion for seeking protection for his clients. He brings that same passion to helping families reunite, assisting them in bringing their relatives to the United States, or helping individuals navigate the complex immigration process to obtain Lawful Permanent Residency or U.S. citizenship.

Alan focuses his practice on litigation before Immigration Courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals and U.S. Federal Courts, as well as before the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Consulates abroad. He has specific experience in appellate litigation, defense against removal, asylum and complex consular matters.

Alan has taught as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and at the University of Virginia, from which he obtained his Ph.D. in International Law. He was also the Albert Gallatin Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland and recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship to attend the Hague Academy of International Law. He is a Board member of Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma and a Board Member and Legal Adviser for the International Centre for Refugee and Displaced Ethiopians.

Education

• College of Arts and Sciences at University of Virginia
  • Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs (Focused on International Law)
• Graduate Institute of International Studies - Geneva
  • Albert Gallatin Fellow
• Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague, Netherlands
  • Ford Foundation Fellow
• University of Cincinnati College of Law, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • J.D.
• Xavier University
  • H.A.B. (Cum Laude)
  • Honors: Alpha Sigma Nu - The Honor Society of Jesuit Colleges and universities

Ms. England's current law practice is devoted to representing victims of discrimination and sexual violence. Early in her career, she developed expertise in fire cause and origin and engineering cases and was twice appointed by the federal court to co-chair the Defendants' Settlement Committee in the MGM Grand Fire Litigation. Ms. England's clients have won substantial federal verdicts in employment cases against NV Department of Prisons, SAKS and Clark County Department of Aviation. She has represented Nevada legislators in election challenges and redistricting suits, and has served as a legal advisor for a number of state and federal campaigns, including voter protection efforts.

Ms. England began her law career as a law clerk for the Las Vegas City Attorney's Office in 1978, becoming a Deputy City Attorney after passing the Nevada bar in 1979. She entered private practice in 1982 with the storied Nevada firm of Vargas & Bartlett and has since worked for a number of law firms, including her own in her 38 year legal career in Nevada.

Ms. England's other activities reflect her commitment to her community. She has served on the boards of Planned Parenthood, Frontier Girl Scouts and The Shade Tree Shelter. Las Vegas Mayor Jan Jones appointed Ms. England as the first chair of the Las Vegas Ethic's Review Board. In 1986, Ms. England helped establish the Young Lawyers Section of the Nevada Bar, and has been active in many sections of the ABA and NELA for many years. In 1989, the Nevada Supreme Court appointed her to its Gender Bias Task Force. Ms. England has also represented Nevada on many national boards and organizations. She has served on the boards of the Southern Nevada Association of Women Attorneys, the Clark County Bar Association and the Nevada Inns of Court. In 1993, the Supreme Court appointed her to its Character & Fitness Committee, which she later chaired. The Nevada Supreme Court appointed her to its Article Six Commission and Records Sealing Commission. In 2001, she was elected to the Nevada State Bar Board of Governors where she served for ten years. In 2009-2010, Ms. England served as president of the Nevada Bar.

Ms. England is a frequent speaker and CLE panelist on civil rights and employment discrimination. She has testified in the Nevada legislature on employment discrimination, reproductive rights and women's health and safety. In 2001, In Business magazine named her one of the "Most Influential Women" in southern Nevada. For the last 17 years, she has been honored as one of the "Best Lawyers in America." She has won many awards, including ones from the VV Chamber of Commerce, Southern Nevada Women's Political Caucus, Soroptomist International, Nevada Trial Lawyers, Planned Parenthood, and the AFL-CIO.

Ms. England received her Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School. She graduated cum laude from Michigan State University.

Ms. Deryn A. Sumner is the Managing Partner of Gilbert Employment Law, as well as Co-Chair of the firm's Federal Sector EEOC Practice Group. She focuses her practice on representing federal employees and agencies before the EEOC and has worked on hundreds of cases involving claims of employment discrimination on the basis of disability, race, age, religion, retaliation and other bases. Ms. Sumner also has experience representing employees and agencies in cases of whistleblower retaliation and adverse action challenges before the MSPB.

Ms. Sumner graduated from American University's Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. While in law school, she served as a note and comment editor on the Administrative Law Review, as well as co-chair of the Labor and Employment Law Society. Ms. Sumner also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California.

Ms. Sumner is the co-author of several books on federal sector employment law including Representing Agencies and Complainants Before the EEOC; Federal Sector Disability Discrimination Law Desk book; Compensatory Damages and Other Remedies in Federal Sector Employment and Discrimination Cases; EEO Counselors' and Investigators' Manual; and an annual Consolidated Federal Sector EEO Update. Ms. Sumner was previously an instructor with the Federal Employment Law Training Group (FELTG) and now provides training with Gilbert Training Group in coordination in cyber FEDS® to agency representatives, EEO counselors and investigators, and reasonable accommodation coordinators.

Elizabeth A. Wilson is Counsel focusing on employment litigation in the private sector. Ms. Wilson holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in English and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania.

Prior to joining Gilbert Employment Law, Ms. Wilson was an Associate in the Litigation department of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, where she was an integral part of the team that brought habeas corpus claims on behalf of war on terrorism detainees held in Guantanamo Bay culminating in the landmark Supreme Court case Boumediene v. Bush. She was also an Associate at Baach Robinson & Lewis (now Lewis Baach) where she represented released British Guantanamo detainees in claims for damages against the U.S. government (Rasul v. Myers) and brought the first habeas petitions on behalf of detainees in Bagram Air Force Base. She was the main drafter of a report on torture in Guantanamo Bay, published by the Center for Constitutional Rights. At WilmerHale and Lewis Baach, she also worked on corporate investigations and international litigation. During law school, she interned at the Public Corruption Unit of the Criminal Division of the US Attorney’s office in Boston and at Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo as a litigation associate.

Ms. Wilson then became assistant professor of international human rights law in the School of Diplomacy, Seton Hall University, where she focused on civil and political rights, including discrimination based on sex, race, and age.

Ms. Wilson has written extensively about the right to associate in the context of strikes and protest movements. She has been visiting professor at Columbia University’s Institute for Human Rights; Rutgers Law School, Newark, New Jersey; and the George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC. She has also taught as assistant professor in the Department of English, Yale University.

She is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, during which she taught at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and a Nehru-Fulbright Senior Scholarship, during which she did research on Gandhi’s legacy for the human rights movement at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi, India. She has also received a German Academic Exchange Award (DAAD), during which she taught at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. She has also been a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Contemporary Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. She is the recipient of a grants from the ARCA Foundation and the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict for her work on nonviolent movements.

She is the author of People Power and International Human Rights: Creating a Legal Framework and numerous works on nonviolent resistance movements, human rights, and constitutional torts.

JOSEPH V. KAPLAN received his undergraduate degree from the Pennsylvania State University in 1975, and his Juris Doctor in 1978 from Gonzaga University. In 1979, Mr. Kaplan received a Master of Laws, LL.M. from the George Washington University National Law Center, specializing in Labor and Employment Law.

Mr. Kaplan's first position was with the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), where he was involved in labor litigation and negotiations. In 1986, Mr. Kaplan entered the private practice of law, concentrating in labor and employment law, as an associate with the firm of Passman & Broida. In January 1989, Mr. Kaplan opened his own legal practice under the name of Joseph V. Kaplan, P.C. By the end of that year, Messrs. Passman and Kaplan agreed to merge their firms under the name of Passman & Kaplan, P.C.

Mr. Kaplan continued to concentrate his practice in the areas of employment, labor, and discrimination law. While primarily representing Federal and D.C. Government employees and labor unions of the Federal and District of Columbia Governments, he also represented private sector employees. Mr. Kaplan's practice involved litigation in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, the U.S. District Courts, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the D.C. Court of Appeals and the D.C. Superior Court, and such administrative agencies as the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOHA), the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), the Federal Service Impasses Panel (FSIP), the D.C. Human Rights Commission (DCHRC), the D.C. Office of Employee Appeals (OEA), and numerous arbitrators. In 2005, Mr. Kaplan obtained a jury verdict of $3M for a P&K client in a disability rights lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Commerce.

In addition to practicing law, Mr. Kaplan was a frequent lecturer at professional seminars concerning various labor and employment law topics.

Mr. Kaplan also served on the faculty of Central Michigan University, where he taught a graduate economics course on Collective Bargaining and Labor Law. He was twice elected as the National President of the Society of Federal Labor and Employee Relations Professionals (SFLERP) and was active in various professional organizations, such as the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) and the Washington Metropolitan Employment Lawyers Association (MWELA). Mr. Kaplan had written a number of published articles concerning federal labor relations, and for six years was the author of the Federal Merit Systems Year Book, a leading reference book on the Merit Systems Protection Board, published by the Labor Relations Press. Moreover, Mr. Kaplan was the lead editor and co-author of the Federal Employees Legal Survival Guide, and was co-author of Litigating Federal Sector Employee and Labor Disputes: A Practitioner's Handbook by Dewey Publications. Mr. Kaplan had also served as a court-certified expert witness on MSPB procedures in U.S. District Court. In 2008 he was selected to be a Fellow of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, Inc.

Mr. Kaplan was an active member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the State of Maryland.

Ms. Price is Of Counsel with Gilbert Employment Law, focusing on the representation of individuals undergoing federal background investigations related to their eligibility for access to classified or sensitive information at all levels; as well as suitability for employment by the federal government. When working with the firm, Ms. Price represents federal government employees, active duty and reserve military personnel, and employees of federal contractors before the adjudication offices of all federal agencies.

Prior to joining Gilbert Employment Law in 2020, Ms. Price was employed in the private practice of law for over 15 years. In addition to having served as a Senior Vice President, Privacy and Compliance and Chief Compliance Officer for a contractor in the military TRICARE arena; counsel for a Defense Contractor; and served on active duty in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps for 25 years, retiring as a Captain. During her Navy career, Captain Price served as: a Prosecutor, Defense Counsel and Military Trial Judge – handling military Courts Martial trials ranging from misdemeanor to murder charges as well as administrative discharge, disability discharge and retirement proceedings, retirement grade determinations, Boards for Correction of Military Records, and Discharge Review Board cases; Commanding Officer of the largest legal office in the Department of the Navy; as a Legislative Counsel in the Department of the Navy Office of Legislative Affairs, responsible for a personnel and medical issues affecting the Navy before Congress; as an Instructor at the Naval Justice School, Editor-in-Chief of the Naval Law Review; and as a Personnel Officer for two-thirds of the JAG Corps, among other responsibilities. During her Navy career Captain Price was awarded: the Legion of Merit (two awards); Meritorious Service Medal (four awards); Navy Commendation Medal (two awards); Navy Achievement Medal; in addition to numerous service medals; and is a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW).

Ms. Price is an adjunct professor at the University of Richmond School of Law where she has taught Military Law and a Civil Rights course focused on LGBTQ issues. Ms. Price transitioned from male to female in 2014 and was the first transgender individual elected to local office in Virginia, currently serving as the Vice Chair of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors. She served as an Election Official for approximately 15 years in various jurisdictions and precincts; as well as the Chair of the Board of Governors of the Military Law Section of the State Bar of Virginia.

Ms. Price earned her Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees from Mercer University, and her LL.M. in International and Comparative Law, with Highest Honors, from the George Washington School of Law.

Mr. Hadley has been representing federal sector employees before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Merit Systems Protection Board and in the federal courts for the past 25 years. He also occasionally represents agencies before the EEOC and is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Mr. Hadley is the author of several books on federal sector employment law including A Guide to Federal Sector Equal Employment Law and Practice. He is also the co-author of Sexual Harassment: Federal Law; Federal Sector Workers' Compensation Law; Motions Practice before the Merit Systems Protection Board and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Representing Agencies and Complainants before the EEOC; A Guide to Federal Sector Disability Discrimination Law and Practice; The EEO Counselors' and Investigators' Manual; and Effective Summary Judgment Motions.