Known for her strategic and uniquely holistic approach in representing federal criminal clients, NiaLena was featured on the Super Lawyers Cover in Philadelphia Magazine & described as "Fierce." Unlike most other lawyers, NiaLena embraces her clients foremost as human beings, for she recognizes that people who have come under criminal scrutiny usually face a myriad of other deep-rooted problems far beyond the boundaries of their immediate legal case. Also unlike most of her colleagues, NiaLena holds a degree from the prestigious Wharton School, along with first-hand experience in international business, and is therefore able to relate to and understand in a uniquely personal way many of the challenges encountered by white collar criminal defendants. Moreover, NiaLena has a proven reputation of charting her own course in doing right by her clients, stemming from her representation of a high-ranking mafia member as the youngest and only female lawyer who was unafraid to break ranks with the old-boy network of other criminal lawyers representing the codefendant mobsters. Honored repeatedly as one of the “Top 50 Women” Super Lawyers, "Top 100 Trial Lawyers," "Best Attorneys Of America," and "10 Best" Attorneys and "10 Best" Law Firms for Client Satisfaction in PA, NiaLena has earned the reputation nationally as well as internationally as one of the top federal criminal defense lawyers and of not being afraid to separate her clients and fight individually, strategically, creatively, and relentlessly. As a result, many of her courtroom successes have come in matters that others considered hopeless. NiaLena is a passionate advocate who believes in Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and who often chooses to travel "the road less traveled by." Through her boutique law practice, she gives personal, undivided, and often 'round-the-clock attention to all clients in an effort to provide the absolute best defense possible.