Rigorous counsel for people navigating borders, rights, and recovery.
A boutique firm serving Philadelphia and South Jersey, representing individuals and families in immigration, civil rights, and plaintiff-side civil litigation — in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Three overlapping specialties, one attentive practice.
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Immigration
Asylum, removal defense, U visas, habeas petitions, family-based petitions, and naturalization. Her work with Aldea — The People's Justice Center helped create precedential asylum case law in the Third Circuit.
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Civil Rights
Holding institutions accountable when they overreach. Representation in matters involving police misconduct, unlawful detention, discrimination, and constitutional violations in federal and state court.
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Civil Litigation — Plaintiff
Plaintiff-side civil matters in state, federal, and administrative tribunals. Multiple six-figure settlements negotiated on behalf of individual clients.
A lawyer who came to law through journalism.
Before law, Karen Hoffmann worked as a journalist covering human rights and the environment across Latin America and the Caribbean. Her reporting has appeared in The Guardian, Earth Island Journal, and The Ecologist.
That background shapes the practice: careful listening, thorough investigation, and an insistence on telling a client's story clearly — whether to an immigration judge, a federal jury, or opposing counsel across the table. She represents a wide variety of clients in state, federal, and administrative matters, and has negotiated multiple six-figure settlements on their behalf.
Attorney Hoffmann has argued before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and helped create precedential asylum case law.
Results that move — for clients, and for the law.
"Every case begins the same way: what actually happened, and who is this person?"
- Matter Contributed to precedential asylum case law in the Third Circuit Immigration
- Matter Multiple six-figure settlements on behalf of individual plaintiffs Civil Litigation
- The Guardian Reporting on human rights and the environment in Latin America Journalism
- Earth Island Journal Feature reporting on environmental justice Journalism
Tell me what's going on.
Haddonfield, NJ 08033
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