“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden,
meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.”
John F. Kennedy
Attorneys
GAVRIEL MAIRONE
Founder of MM~LAW LLC, a law firm dedicated to advancing private human rights law by representation of victims of international terrorism, crimes against humanity, weaponization of mass rape and sexual assault, proliferation and deployment of chemical weapons, torture, human tracking and modern slavery, and genocide in civil lawsuits to force accountability upon the financiers, profiteers, co-conspirators and aiders and abettors of the perpetrators of such crimes and the designated rogue State sponsoring the perpetrators. Mairone created a counterterrorism research group to support such litigation that, since 2001, conducts legal operational research on international money laundering and finance of the perpetrators, State sponsors, and jihadi terrorist organizations, in Arabic, Farsi, English, French, German, Kurdish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Hebrew. He has over 40 years of legal experience initially specializing in international taxation and business planning and then focusing on and developing expertise in international human rights and humanitarian law, counterterrorism, transnational, and tort law.
Mairone serves on the International Human Rights Committee of the American Bar Association and the Subcommittees on Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and Corporate Responsibility. From 2012-2018, he volunteered as an Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Council. He is also a member the American Association for Justice, the American Society of International Law, and the International Legal Team of the Kurdish Regional Government Group for the Recognition of the Kurdish Genocide, in Washington D.C. and London.
Mairone is a legal strategy expert in prosecuting international money laundering and terrorist financing civil cases and a pioneer in the development of legal remedies available to victims of violations of U.S. counterterrorism law and international human rights law.
Admitted to practice: Illinois, Florida, New York, District of Columbia, United States District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois, the District of Columbia and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Second and Seventh Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Education: Masters of Law-Taxation, New York University Graduate School of Law; Juris Doctor Summa Cum Laude, Chicago-Kent College of Law-Illinois Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Arts-Philosophy, valedictorian, Hebrew University and Spertus College of Judaica.
Military: NCO airborne, special forces, and counterterrorism ops.
Awards and Publications:
Trial Lawyer of the Year (2016) by Public Justice Foundation
Top 25 Mass Tort Lawyers – The National Trial Lawyers Association
Top 100 Trial Lawyers – The National Trial Lawyers Association
Designated an “influential, private international and counter-terrorism lawyer” by Lawyers of Distinction
Universal Jurisdiction in Civil Cases: The Netherlands Joins the United States in Granting Victims a Forum, Justice, No. 51, Fall 2012
A Grotian Moment: Corporations Are Required to Respect Human Rights, Justice, No. 54, Summer 2014
Languages: English, Hebrew.
Christine Crane
Attorney. Christine is an experienced litigator with over 25 years’ experience in complex litigation. Prior to joining MM~LAW in 2018, Christine served as lead prosecutor and Enforcement Division manager for Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in Illinois. She then entered private practice, holding positions starting as an associate attorney and then managing attorney. She has extensive trial experience in federal and state courts. Christine is proud of obtaining judgments totaling $1,450,620,000 on behalf of US Air Force Veterans and their families resulting from the Hizballah bombing of the Khobar Towers Residential Complex in Saudi Arabia.
Admitted to practice: Illinois.
Education: Juris Doctor, Chicago Kent College of Law-Illinois Institute of Technology. Bachelor of Arts. Communication Studies and Spanish, University of Iowa.
Awards:
Christine was selected to the Illinois Super Lawyers-Rising Stars list in 2009, 2010, and 2013. This selection is based on an evaluation of 12 indicators including peer recognition and professional achievement in legal practice, and selection to the Rising Stars list is limited to a small number of attorneys in each state. As one of the few attorneys to garner the distinction of Rising Stars, Christine has earned the respect of peers as one of the top-rated attorneys in the nation.
Languages: English, Spanish
Ariel Mairone
Attorney. Ariel has over 18 years’ experience in class action, complex commercial litigation, counterterrorism law, and alternative dispute resolution. Prior to joining MM~LAW, Ariel served as an attorney in the Anti-Terrorism and Human Rights Practice group at Motley Rice LLC.
Admitted to practice: New York, Israel
Education: Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and Master of Arts. Economics, Bar Ilan University, School of Law and School of Social Sciences.
Awards:
Trial of the Year (2016) by Public Justice Foundation.
Military: paratrooper.
Jonathan Goldberg
Attorney. Prior to joining MM~LAW in 2025, Jonathan served as a prosecutor for the Illinois State’s Attorney Office in Grundy County, and then as a personal injury trial lawyer for one of the largest personal injury law firms in Chicago. He served in the Judge Advocate General (JAG) office during his military service,
Admitted to practice: Illinois
Education: Juris Doctor, John Marshall Law School. Bachelor of Arts, University of Illinois.
Military: Paralegal Specialist.
Languages: English
Joan (Joy) Ndanu Munwoki
Attorney. Joy is a dedicated Human Rights Lawyer and Gender Specialist with experience in Access to Justice, Women’s Rights, and Human Trafficking. Her expertise spans legal research, case management, and advocacy, with a strong focus on trauma-informed approaches and survivor-centered strategies. She is an active member of the technical working group of Alliance 8.7, demonstrating her commitment to combatting Forced Labor, Human Trafficking, and Modern Slavery.
Admitted to practice: Kenya
Education: Bachelor of Law. Daystar University, Nairobi; African Human Rights System, Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria; Intellectual Property Rights, World Intellectual Property Organization.
Languages: English, Swahili.
Pauline Wanjiku Mbuthia
Attorney. Prior to joining MM~LAW, Pauline served as a Judicial Attache to the Chief Magistrate and High Court Registries at the Nairobi City Law Courts, and subsequently for a private litigation law firm.
Admitted to practice: Kenya
Education: Post Graduate Diploma in Law, Kenya School of Law, Bachelor of Laws, The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Certified Mediator, Karl Mediation and Arbitration Centre.
Languages: English, Swahili
Bena N. Ochs
Of Counsel. Bena specializes in human rights and counterterrorism litigation. Prior to joining MM~LAW, Bena served as an in-house attorney at AIG; Countrywide Insurance and Empire/All City Insurance as well practicing litigation at other general liability law firms.
Admitted to practice: New Jersey, New York, United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Education: Juris Doctor, Brooklyn Law School; Bachelor of Arts, Queens College of the City of New York.
Languages: English, Hebrew.
Deborah R. Srour
Special Counsel. Deborah specializes in representation of major international banks compliance and implementation of fraud/money laundering/terror financing prevention programs. Her areas of expertise include money laundering prevention, terror financing and bank fraud, international commercial agreements, cross-border transactions, and commercial law. Deborah is a visiting professor at the University of Sao Paulo Law School-International Law Graduate Course in comparative law and litigation in the United States. She also teaches courses in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and is a speaker on Corporate and Banking Compliance at the Practicing Law Institute in New York.
Debroah has written extensively about money laundering, bank fraud, the Patriot Act, and the Sarbanes-Oxely Act. She is a frequent legal commentator on Brazilian, French and Spanish Bloomberg television.
Admitted to practice: Brazil, New York.
Education: Master's Degree-(LL.M.)-International Law (lato sensu), University of Sao Paulo, LL.B University of Sao Paulo Law School.
Languages: English, French, Hebrew, Portuguese, Spanish.
Dr. Jason McCue
Special UK Counsel, is internationally recognized as a leading expert in human rights, counterterrorism, conflict resolution, transitional justice international criminal law and victim class action litigation. McCue was awarded U.K. Law Society's Solicitor of the Year Award 2009-2010 for, among other things, his ground-breaking work in civil litigation against terrorist organizations and the successful litigation against leaders of the Real IRA on behalf of victims of the Omagh bombing. Dr. McCue also heads the Libyan United Kingdom Reconciliation Group (supported by HMG Foreign & Commonwealth Office), is Ambassador for Femmes Africa Solidarité, is Founder and Director of the GREAT Foundation (NGO fostering gender equality globally), and is Chief Advisor to Crisis Action (NGO which aims to help avert conflicts, prevent human rights abuses and ensure governments fulfill their obligations to protect civilians). He has acted as political, legal and foreign affairs adviser to numerous heads of state, governments, opposition groups, international bodies (UN and AU) and companies. Among other roles, he has acted as Presidential Envoy for Somaliland; as the appointed facilitator to the joint UN/AU Darfur Peace Process; as an adviser on transitional justice to the Transitional Government of Libya; as head of the Libya-UK Victims Reconciliation Group (supported by the U.K. FCO); as lead adviser to the Government of Somaliland on the development of the Berbera Port/Berbera Corridor; Advisor to leading stakeholders in the South Sudan peace process; Representative/delegate of several countries at the United Nations General Assembly; General Counsel to numerous campaigns including Omagh Bomb Campaign, Free Belarus, Libyan Semtex Victims, and Justice for Rohingya Minority; and as an adviser to numerous African, Asian, Middle East and EU Governments on human rights, asset recovery, counter-terrorism and anti-piracy.
Education: Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, University of Chester, England, for his work on counterterrorism, human rights, and conflict resolution around the globe; LS.F. The College of Law SFE, Chancery Lane, London; Bachelor of Laws honors, Queen Mary's College, London University.
Admitted to practice: Solicitor, England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland.
Professor Rizgar Mohammed Kadir
Professor Kadir teaches Criminal Law at Salahuddin University – Erbil, Kurdish Region of the Republic of Iraq. He earned a Ph.D. in public law in 2003 and was promoted to full professorship in 2011. His educational biography includes the Arabic Days Training Course on International Humanitarian Law in 2004, a Short Course in Human Rights Law at The University of Nottingham, School of Law – Human Rights Centre in 2005, an External Course at Paris Sorbonne University, Abu Dhabi in 2010 and an Advanced Seminar in IHL for Lecturers and Researchers, ICRC and Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, 2019. He has published more than 30 research papers in Kurdish, Arabic and English worldwide.
Publications:
“The Scope and the Nature of Computer Crimes Statutes-A Critical Comparative Study” in the German Law Journal, 11 (6), 609-632, 2010.
“The Offense of Unauthorized Access in Computer Crimes' Legislation-A Comparative Study” in the Journal of Sharia & Law, (4), October 2009.
“Combating Criminal Activities Threatening Electronic Commerce” in the Electronic Transactions Conference.
Yael Vias Gvirsman
Special International Law Counsel. Ms. Vias Gvrisman has over 20 years’ experience specializing in international criminal law, international human rights and international humanitarian law. Prior to joining MM~LAW, Ms. Vias Gvirsman worked as an Attorney in four different International Criminal Courts and Tribunals and mainly in litigation at the International Criminal Court based in The Hague. In 2014, she founded the International Criminal and Humanitarian Law Clinic at the Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University. Between 2008-2011, she was a researcher on mass atrocities and the effectiveness of international adjudication at the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ms. Vias Gvrisman served as a prosecutor at the Department of International Affairs at the Israel State Attorney’s Office after completing her tenure as an Eligibility and Legal Officer at UNHCR. She completed her legal pupilage at the International Law Department, Legal Advisor’s Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and an internship at the New York Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN Secretariat in 2004.
Ms. Vias Gvirsman is a Lecturer in International Human Rights, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Transitional Justice, Business and Human Rights at Reichman University. She regularly participates as Guest Lecturer at international conferences and conducts workshops training judges, magistrates and prosecutors on international criminal law, international humanitarian law, human trafficking, etc. She is a member of the International Law Association (ILA) and a Member of the Committee on Complementarity.
Admitted to practice: Israel, International Criminal Court.
Education: Maîtrise 'Droit des Affaires', Université de Robert Schuman (Strasbourg, France), DESS (Masters 2) in International, European and Diplomatic Careers (with honours) (Université d'Auvergne I, Clermont-Ferrand): Licence-ERASMUS-International Public Law, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands- with honours).
Languages: English, French, Hebrew.
Publications:
Blog post: LA 'SITUATION-PALESTINE' DEVANT LA CPI : RÉFLEXIONS ET VUES D’ISRAËL, Justiceinfo.net, 28 April 2020, English version available here.
"The Special Court for Sierra Leone's Misapplication of the European Court for Human Rights Case Law on Hearsay Evidence and Corroboration: The Taylor Appeal Judgement and the Al Khawaja and Tahery Case" in Paolo Lobba and Triestino Mariniello (Eds.), Juidicial Dialogue on Human Rights: The Practice on International Criminal Tribunals, Brill Nijhoff, 2017, pp. 243-262
Co-author – Israel and Complementarity- Report to the ILA Committee on Complementarity, 2016.
Philanthropic Affiliations:
Board of Directors, Executive Secretary and co-Founder, ALMA- Association for the Promotion of International Humanitarian Law, since 2010.