The Wake Law Office provides clients with personalized attention and honest, experienced legal representation. All client calls and emails are returned promptly. 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.

Please note that contacting the firm does not create an attorney-client relationship.  The firm is not retained until a prospective client has met with the attorney, executed a legal representation agreement, and provided payment in accordance with the agreement.  Consultations are by appointment only, and the initial consultation fee is $180.00 for up to one hour.  Weekend and evening appointments are usually available.  We accept cash, checks, and credit cards.
 

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.

Ms. Tseng began her legal career with a Washington, D.C. area law firm, handling business litigation, medical malpractice, employment discrimination, and automobile torts cases.  In May 2001, she joined a law firm in downtown Raleigh, where 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.  The Wake Law Office was established in May 2006, serving primarily the Wake County area.

Ms. Tseng's community involvement includes:  North Carolina Advocates for Justice, 2001 – present: Employment Law Division Membership Chair, 2007-present. Family Law Division Membership Co-Chair, 2007-present. Hispanic/Latino Issues Division member. Recipient of NCAJ Order of Service Awards, 2007 and 2009.  National Association of Asian American Professionals-North Carolina, Boardmember, 2003-2008, President, 2002-2003.  Asian Pacific American Bar Association-North Carolina chapter, Founder and Chair, 2002-2005.  NCAJ Mock Trial Co-Coach for Raleigh Charter High School, 2008-2009.  North Carolina Bar Association: Minorities in the Profession Committee, 2005-2009; Hmong Legal Assistance Committee, 2003-2006; Bar Exam Clinic volunteer, 2002-2009; Ask a Lawyer Day volunteer: Hickory, 2005; Cary, 2007; Raleigh, 2008; Wills for Heroes, 2008.  Durham/Orange County Women Attorneys, Board member, 2004-2006.  Prisoner Legal Services Free Legal Clinic volunteer, 2009.  Interact & Legal Aid Domestic Violence Program on-call volunteer, 2007-2009.  The Peoples Channel, Co-Producer and Co-Host of Asian American Focus, Chapel Hill, 2001-2008.  American Civil Liberties Union- North Carolina Chapter, Boardmember and Secretary, 2006-2008.  Skating Club of North Carolina, Boardmember and Test Chair, 2004-2009. 

Her speaking engagements have included:  Meredith College, 2005; ECASU Conference at Duke University, 2005; ASA at UNC-Chapel Hill, 2005; North Carolina Bar Association high school conference at Elon University, 2006; North Carolina Central University law school lunchtime series, 2009; UNC School of Law, 2007, 2008; Triangle Area Chinese American Society, 2007; National Black Law Students Association Conference, 2006; Asian Pacific American Community Forum, Chapel Hill, 2005; NAAAP-NC Financial Seminar, Durham, 2003; IBM Diversity Group lunch seminar on Employment Law, 2002.

Ms. Tseng has received additional training through programs including: Association of Trial Lawyers of America Trial Advocacy College, 2004; Academia de Columbus Spanish Immersion Program, Heredia, Costa Rica, 2006; Raleigh Chinese Language School, Adult Conversational Class III, 2007-2009.

Rashmi Iyer graduated from Raleigh Charter High School and is currently enrolled at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is majoring in Public Policy Analysis and double minoring in Spanish and Cognitive Science. Rashmi has won numerous best attorney and best witness awards at the regional and state levels through the Wade Edwards Mock Trial program sponsored by the North Carolina Bar Association, and at the national level through the American Mock Trial Association.

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.