Adrienne Tranel joined Kator, Parks & Weiser in the fall of 2006. Her areas of practice are civil rights, civil service, employment and general litigation at the administrative, trial and appellate levels, including before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Merit Systems Protection Board. Ms. Tranel is currently a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia Bars.

Ms. Tranel clerked in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia upon graduating cum laude from American University Washington College of Law. During law school, Ms. Tranel worked at the plaintiffs’ firms of Berman, Sobin & Gross and the Law Office of Eric May, where she participated in the litigation of cases involving personal injury, medical malpractice, product liability and workers’ compensation. Ms. Tranel also served as a student attorney with the International Human Rights Law Clinic, where she represented asylees and worked on a team representing a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in federal court. She had gained prior federal court experience while interning for the Honorable Richard Leon at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Ms. Tranel served as a note and comment editor on the American University International Law Review and published The Ruling of the International Court of Justice in Avena and Other Mexican Nationals: Enforcing the Right to Consular Assistance in U.S. Jurisprudence, 20 Am. U. Int’l L. Rev. 403 (2005).

Prior to law school, Ms. Tranel lived and worked in Madrid, Spain. She obtained her Masters in International Relations from the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset and gained fluency in Spanish. Ms. Tranel earned her undergraduate degree with college honors from Washington University in St. Louis, where she majored in English Literature and Anthropology.

Email:
atranel@katorparks.com