Rina Nakagawa
Founding partner · Juvenile cases and records
Rina is the firm’s founding partner. She takes juvenile cases and record petitions, and she likes to have the parents and the young person in the same room before the first hearing.
Rina started the firm after years as a public defender, where she learned how much of a case is made before anyone enters a courtroom.
She talks to the young person and the parent together and also apart. She prepares families for the pace of juvenile court, and she follows a case to the day a record is sealed, not only to the verdict.
Rina’s admissions, courts and schooling
Bar admissions
Pennsylvania
2013
New Jersey
2014
Courts
Philadelphia Municipal Court
Court of Common Pleas
Family Court, Juvenile Branch
Education
J.D., Temple University Beasley School of Law
B.A., Penn State University
Languages
English
Japanese
Memberships
Philadelphia Bar Association
How Rina keeps a family informed
Rina keeps each family’s case to a single page: the next date, the one thing we are waiting for and the one thing the family needs to do. She will call you after every hearing, even a short one.
Talk with Rina
Call the office or send a message. We will tell you whether Rina is the right lawyer for your charge.