GUIRGUIS LAW, P.A. - Key Persons
Biez is an immigration paralegal at Guirguis Law. He has worked exclusively in immigration law since 2016 and joined our firm in January 2021.
Job Titles:
- Criminal Defense Paralegal
Job Titles:
- of Counsel for Civil Law
- Support Staff
Job Titles:
- Assistant Federal Public Defender
Joseph Heath completed his law degree at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Law in 2023. Previously, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in European Studies from Brigham Young University in 2016, and a Master of Science degree in Russian and Eastern European Studies from the University of Oxford in 2017. He is fluent in English and Czech and is proficient in Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian. In his free time, he enjoys travelling, reading, and spending time with his wife Paige, who is also an attorney.
Education
University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
J.D. - 2023
University of Oxford, Oxford
M.A. - 2017
Job Titles:
- Federal Criminal Defense Attorney
Meaghan O'Connor is a federal criminal defense attorney at Guirguis Law. Since graduating law school, Meaghan has focused her legal practice on representing criminal defendants charged in federal courts, including the Eastern and Middle Districts of North Carolina. Her experience includes fraud, drug, and gun cases.
Ms. O'Connor earned her Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of San Diego in 2016. She then moved across the country to Washington D.C. and worked as an Activism Coordinator at the Institute for Justice for two years. Working at a public interest law firm inspired her to go to law school, and she eventually attended Campbell University Law School in Raleigh.
While in law school, Meaghan discovered a passion for criminal law and procedure, particularly in the federal arena. She interned for the Honorable Magistrate Judge Robert T. Numbers of the Eastern District of North Carolina and Judge Lucy Inman of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. These internships, and her position as a Comments Editor on Campbell Law Review, allowed Meaghan to hone her legal writing skills. Her comment was selected for publication in Campbell's Law Review in the Fall of 2020. She gained courtroom experience by serving as a team member on Campbell's Trial Advocacy Team during her third year of law school. She graduated with honors in May 2021 and began practicing at Guirguis Law later that year.
Outside of work, Meaghan is a CrossFit enthusiast and loves spending time with her husband and friends exploring the Raleigh area.
Education
Campbell University School of Law, Raleigh, North Carolina
J.D. - 05/2021
Nardine Mary Guirguis, known to many of her friends and family as "Nan," is the founder of Guirguis Law. She has brought together, through GOD and His mission for her, an amazing, strong and zealous team of individuals at this devoted Law Firm. She has hand picked this great and unique team based on a set of values and determination to the service and advocacy for their clients. This is of the greatest importance to her.
Since she could remember, Nan had always desired to be an Attorney. It was her dear Grandmother who brought this honorable profession into her dreams and aspirations. When she was growing up her Grandma would talk about her husband, Nan's Grandfather, and the despairing injustice he was surrounded by as an Attorney in Egypt and his dedication and fight for justice in his work and life. It was through this dedication for his family that he slowly but surely immigrated every single one of his children and his beautiful wife from the injustice, discrimination and persecution there to the United States. Sadly, shortly after fulfilling his dream of bringing his family to the US he passed away; Nan was only one but she still got to know him through her beautiful Grandmother's stories.
Nan believes that her calling is to serve as many people as GOD wills it, and to do it in accordance to His Will with GOD being the connector and foundation of the Guirguis Law Team. This is what her Grandmother taught her and she will die fighting for others. She Prays each day that GOD guides her in building an Army in the Guirguis Law Team to practice and advocate within the law at Guirguis Law to serve and fight for His children, our clients.
She has excelled academically and through extracurricular activities. She graduated first in her class with a degree in Sociology from North Carolina State University. This was not something though that made her boast, but humbled her into affirming her path to Law School. She chose Campbell Law School, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, because of its stellar Trial Advocacy training; that is, it trained its students to be excellent trial lawyers, which is one of the great successes of Campbell Law. Accordingly, she strove to be on the Trial Team and was blessed to have such an opportunity despite the great competition she went up against.
After Law School, her devotion to GOD and her passion and drive for litigation led her to open Guirguis Law. In 2012, she became a certified Specialist in Criminal Law State and Criminal Law Federal. She also is dedicated to the practice of Immigration Law, and accordingly is involved in AILA, American Immigration Lawyers Association. Consequently, there is not one day that she is not reading up on Immigration Law and corresponding current events because of the ever-changing and evolving immigration law "practice" within the United States. The Guirguis Law team, in turn, shares this knowledge with their clients so as to assure the best representation is provided to them. She believes that knowledge without practice is a waste of wisdom, and it will not be a part of the Guirguis Law Team.
Nan's life is devoted to GOD. Because of this she always strives to best serve His children, the Guirguis Law Clients, whom she ensures feel as though they are part of their Guirguis Law Family.
On a personal note, Nan absolutely loves and is the proud owner of two big dogs. They are both fun loving and endearing. Her phone is actually filled with pictures of them, and the rest of her family, whom she loves unconditionally.
Favorite quote and words that we at Guirguis Law live by: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier and better for it". Mother Teresa
Education
Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Buies Creek, North Carolina
North Carolina State University
Degree in Sociology
Job Titles:
- Document Review Associate, 2022 to 2023