The Wake Law Office provides clients with personalized attention and honest, experienced legal representation.  All calls and emails are returned promptly, even in the evenings and on weekends. Some other law firms have legal assistants handling much of the client contact.  At the Wake Law Office, your attorney will be accessible and responsive to your needs.

Judy Tseng is the founder and owner of the Wake Law Office.  Born in Chicago and raised in Georgia, she completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley and received her law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she received the Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund Fellowship and was an editor of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review.  During law school, she worked and interned with the Fairfax County Public Defender's Office; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; White, Gentes & Garcia; the Honorable Peter J. Messite; and the Washington, D.C. Public Defender Service.

Upon graduating from law school, Ms. Tseng practiced with a Washington, D.C. area law firm, handling a diverse array of cases, including a complex business fraud and conspiracy lawsuit, medical malpractice, employment discrimination, and automobile torts cases, and counseling to the local business community.

In May 2001, Ms. Tseng joined the law firm of Kurtz & Blum in Raleigh, North Carolina, where as the sole civil litigation attorney she handled workers' compensation, employment law, civil rights, personal injury, family law, professional malpractice, and contract cases.  In May 2003, she joined the Law Office of Faith Herndon in Durham, focusing on employment law, workers' compensation, SSDI appeals, family law, and general civil litigation.

Ms. Tseng prides herself on taking care of her clients, no matter the size of their cases.  Among her most memorable achievements have been negotiating a settlement for an employee who suffered mental injuries, assisting a senior citizen who was injured in his apartment, winning a lengthy SSDI claim for a very ill client, and saving a restaurant owner from eviction.  She is a member of the Virginia and North Carolina State Bars, as well as the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.  She is admitted to practice in state and federal courts.  In 2004, Ms. Tseng honed her litigation skills at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America Trial Advocacy College.

Ms. Tseng is active in many community organizations, serving as a current board member and the 2002-2003 President of the National Association of Asian American Professionals-North Carolina, and as founder of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association-North Carolina chapter.  She is a board member of the Skating Club of North Carolina and Durham/Orange Women Attorneys.  She is also an active member of the North Carolina Bar Association Minorities in the Profession and Hmong Legal Assistance sections, Triangle Area Chinese American Society, and the Durham County Bar Association.  Ms. Tseng has further volunteered her time speaking about legal careers with students at Meredith College, Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, the North Carolina Bar Association high school conference, and the National Black Law Students Association conference.  She has spoken about legal issues with the IBM Diversity Group, and at the NAAAP-NC Financial Seminar, Ask-a-Lawyer Day in Hickory, and the 2005 APA Community Forum.

Ms. Tseng is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and continues to improve her Spanish ability.  In her spare time, Ms. Tseng competes nationwide as a figure skater, produces a show on The Peoples Channel with her husband, and manages businesses for her relatives.

Michelle Brown graduated magna cum laude from Methodist University and is currently enrolled at the University of North Carolina School of Law. She is Vice President of Women in Law and a law student member of the North Carolina Bar Association. Before attending law school, Ms. Brown worked as a financial services representative and mortgage loan processor with State Employees' Credit Union.

Emily Tseng graduated magna cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Asheville and is currently enrolled at the University of North Carolina School of Law.  She is Vice President of the Innocence Project and a law student member of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers.  During college, she worked part-time as a legal assistant at Grimes & Teich, assisting clients in personal injury and workers' compensation cases.  She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, having spent half of her childhood in Taiwan, and proficient in Spanish.  Both Tsengs improved their Spanish abilities at the Academia Columbus, a language immersion school in Heredia, Costa Rica in 2006.