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Jill Rizk

Jill Rizk

Vice President/Litigation Paralegal

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Jacqueline de Villeneuve

Jacqueline de Villeneuve

Law Clerk

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Ellie, Summer Law Clerk

Ellie

Summer Law Clerk

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Logan Reck

Logan Reck

Legal Assistant

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helen venoy

Helen Venoy

Legal Assistant

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Richard Rizk

Richard Rizk, senior lawyer at Rizk Law, was born in Manhattan to young medical professionals. His father, a doctor who immigrated from Egypt, and his mother, a nurse from small-town Indiana, lived in a small Bronx apartment on a shoestring budget when they welcomed their baby boy. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be long after Richard’s birth that his family would be forced out of the country due to a lapse in his father’s visa.

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