All of the programs and workshops at PIW
are taught by lawyers, which makes ours a unique
paralegal school.
Current instructors include:
Wayne R. Cohen
Wayne Cohen is the founder and managing partner of Cohen
& Cohen, P.C. Mr. Cohen is an AV-rated lawyer,
whose practice is concentrated in the areas of medical
malpractice, wrongful death, car accidents, product
liability, class actions, and other personal injury
areas. In short, he has devoted his professional career
to representing the rights of the injured. Mr. Cohen
has appeared on numerous occasions in local and national
television shows and print media. Mr. Cohen has been
called one of Washington's top 40 lawyers under 40,
one of Washington's top trial lawyers, one of the 50
best lawyers in Washington, DC and one of the city's
most feared personal injury lawyers" (Washingtonian
Magazine, July 2006, August 2004, April 2002, and
June 2001 respectively). The Washington Examiner identified Mr. Cohen as a "prominent, personal
injury lawyer" on January 31, 2006.
Mr. Cohen is a graduate of the University of Michigan
(with distinction) and the University of Miami (cum
laude).
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Charles H. Bogino
Charles H. Bogino is a sole practitioner who maintains
a general practice in Washington, D.C. His practice
mainly focuses on the representation of debtors in consumer
and business bankruptcies and plaintiffs in tort claims.
He also handles business-to-business contractual disputes,
and counsels small businesses on corporate formation
and regulatory issues. A graduate of the Columbus School
of Law of The Catholic University of America, Mr. Bogino
was formerly with the general counsel’s office
of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and is the
former managing attorney of a Virginia-based litigation
firm’s Washington office. Mr. Bogino holds a master’s
degree in journalism and public affairs from American
University, and has worked as a reporter for a number
of publications and broadcast networks, including Court
TV and CBS News. He has lectured at American University,
Catholic University’s law school, and was a visiting
fellow at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, where he
taught media law. Mr. Bogino is admitted to practice
before the local and federal courts of the District
of Columbia, the state courts of New York and Connecticut,
and the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
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Charles
F. Gormly
Charles F. Gormly is the managing attorney at the Law
Offices of Charles F. Gormly, which has a practice
divided between civil litigation, probate, and collections
work.
A member of the District of Columbia and Maryland bars,
Charles F. Gormly has handled hundreds of personal injury
cases and other litigation, trying over a hundred cases
to verdicts, as well as arguing cases before the DC
Court of Appeals. He has also served as personal representative,
guardian or counsel to the estate in numerous probate
matters, particularly guardianships of minors in lead
poisoning, medical malpractice and other catastrophic
injury cases. A significant part of Mr. Gormly's practice
is providing legal guidance to leading members of the
plaintiff's bar in the area of estates and guardianships.
Mr. Gormly serves on the Board of Governors of the Trial
Lawyers Association of the District of Columbia. He
is a member of the Debt Buyers of America. His community
activities include serving as an officer and member
of the Board of Directors of the Lupus Foundation of
Greater Washington and working with Hands On Housing
home improvement service project of Holy Trinity Roman
Catholic Church in Georgetown.
Mr. Gormly received his law degree from the American
University's Washington College of Law in 1996 and his
B.A. in history from Wesleyan University in Middletown,
Connecticut in 1989. He resides in Kensington, MD
with his wife and children.
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Patricia Karppi
Patricia C. Karppi
was born and raised in the Washington D.C area. She
obtained her undergraduate degree from the University
of Virginia in 1988. She graduated from the Columbus
School of Law at Catholic University of American in
1993 with honors in the top 4% of her class.
In 1993, Ms. Karppi obtained a one year appointment
as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable John M. Steadman
of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. After
her clerkship, Ms. Karppi joined the Charlottesville,
Virginia office of McGuire Woods. Her litigation practice
included the defense of hospitals, nursing homes and
physicians in medical malpractice cases. She also obtained
extensive experience in administrative hearings before
the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission. Thereafter,
she joined and became a principal trial attorney at
the prominent medical malpractice defense firm of Godard,
West and Adelman, P.C. During her three and a half years
there, Ms. Karppi tried multiple complex medical, psychiatric
and dental malpractice cases in the Commonwealth of
Virginia and the District of Columbia. From 2001-2004,
Ms. Karppi devoted her trial practice pursuing claims
of medical malpractice on behalf of patients at Klores
& Associates.
In her ten years of private practice, Ms. Karppi also
handled numerous appeals to the Virginia Court of Appeals,
Virginia Supreme Court, the District of Columbia Court
of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the
Fourth Circuit and the Court of Special Appeals in Maryland.
Her appellate successes include Jacobson v. Pannu, 822
A.2d 1080 (D.C. App. 2003) and Paul v. Bier, 758 A.2d
40 (D.C. App. 2001).
Currently, Ms. Karppi is an Adjunct Professor of Legal
Research and Writing at the George Washington University
Law Center. In addition to teaching, Ms. Karppi consults
with small firms in the Washington Metropolitan area
in the preparation of pretrial and trial motions and
memorandums of law as well as in the preparation of
appellate briefs.
Ms. Karppi is a member of the Virginia State Bar, the
voluntary bar of the District of Columbia, the Trial
Lawyers Association of the District of Columbia, and
the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association. She is admitted
to practice law in the United States Court of Appeals
for the Fourth Circuit, the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Virginia, the United States
District Court for the Western District of Virginia,
the United States District Court for the District of
Columbia and the United States Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia Circuit. She has also been
admitted pro hac vice in Maryland to try two cases.
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Daniel
S. Kozma
Daniel Kozma obtained his undergraduate degree
from University of Pittsburgh in 1971. He graduated
from Cornell Law School in 1977. Mr. Kozma first honed
his skills in complex litigation and jury trials involving
airline labor law, ERISA and administrative law cases.
During this time, Mr. Kozma represented and won a multi-million
dollar settlement for 7,000 people against the National
Western Life Insurance Company. Thereafter, Mr. Kozma
geared his specialties to toxic torts, labor, ERISA
and Federal False Claims Act for close to a decade.
To date, Mr. Kozma was awarded the largest verdict and
recovery for a lead-poisoned child in the District of
Columbia. Since then, Mr. Kozma has represented lead-poisoned
children in a number of cases and has recovered over
$8 million combined. In 2004, Mr. Kozma opened the Law
Office of Daniel S. Kozma. He now focuses his time on
toxic torts, personal injury, discrimination and employment
law. Mr. Kozma is a member of the District of Columbia
Court of Appeals, United States Supreme Court, United
States Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia,
Second, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits,
United States District Courts for the District of Columbia,
Arizona and Nebraska. Mr. Kozma is also a member of
the Board of Governors, Trial Lawyers Association of
Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Mr. Kozma teaches Torts,
Civil Rights/Employment and Civil Procedure.
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Juliann
Tigert
Juliann Tigert obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Arizona in 1993. She graduated from the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii in 1998. After law school she joined a law firm that specialized in representing common-interest property associations. Her practice included litigation, real property law, collection law, foreclosure law, and bankruptcy law. After moving to the Washington, D.C., area, Ms. Tigert was a staff attorney with the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, where she developed innovative litigation support tools and services for plaintiff and criminal defense attorneys and participated in the counseling of governing boards on legal matters. Currently, Ms. Tigert is the founder and president of Tigert Literary Agency, LLC, a small, independent agency that provides full artist representation and literary career consulting to an eclectic list of authors and illustrators. Ms. Tigert is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, Hawaii State Bar, and the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii. Ms. Tigert teaches Bankruptcy; Trust, Wills and Estates; Real Property; and the Cite Checking Workshop.
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