Charlotte-based representation for people facing criminal charges, immigration matters, family disputes, and the everyday legal needs of small businesses. Immigration clients are represented nationwide. Every matter is handled by the attorney you hired — in English, French, or Spanish.
Online booking is for paid consultations; the fee is confirmed when you schedule.
Criminal defense, immigration, real estate and estate planning, and international and cross-border transactions are the core of this practice. But clients rarely arrive with only one problem, so the firm also handles the mediation, trademark, family, business, and civil matters that tend to sit alongside them.
From the first appearance through trial, in North Carolina District and Superior Court. Charges are read for everything they can cost you — your record, your job, your immigration status — before any strategy is set.
Family petitions, humanitarian relief, and removal defense — for clients anywhere in the United States, since immigration is federal practice. Filings and hearings are explained in the language you are most comfortable in.
Deed preparation and property transfers, and the wills and trusts that protect what you have built — documents drafted so your family and your property are provided for, explained in the language you are most comfortable in.
Contracts, entity formation, and trade matters between the United States and abroad, with particular depth in transactions involving Francophone Africa. Charlotte's role as a banking and trade hub makes this work as relevant here as anywhere in the country.
As an NCDRC Certified Superior Court Mediator, serving in court-ordered and private mediations to settle disputes without the cost and delay of trial.
Clearance searches, USPTO applications, responses to office actions, and renewals — protecting the name a business trades under.
Divorce, custody, child support, and separation agreements — including matters involving documents, marriages, or parties abroad.
Formation, governance documents, contracts, and 501(c)(3) work for small businesses, startups, and community organizations.
Straightforward civil disputes — contract, landlord-tenant, small-business, and collections matters — handled without complex-litigation overhead.
Law is practiced here as a calling with duties attached — to the client, to the court, and to the person on the other side of the table. That is a different thing from selling a service, and it shows in how matters are taken on and seen through.
You are advised, including when the honest advice is that you do not need to hire anyone. Cases are declined when the firm is not the right one to bring them.
Henoch Kokolo Mvembe came to this country as an immigrant and built a practice here. He knows what an unfamiliar system does to a family — the forms, the waiting, the fear of one wrong answer.
No case handoffs to staff you have never met. The person who takes your call is the person who stands up in court.
Consultations, filings, and hearing preparation in English, French, or Spanish — so nothing important is lost in translation at the worst possible moment.
He arrived in the United States as an immigrant, learned the system from the inside of it, and now practices on the other side of the counter. That is not a marketing line — it is why the firm exists.
Henoch Kokolo Mvembe is admitted in both New York and North Carolina and before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. He holds law degrees from Université Marien Ngouabi, along with a bachelor's and a master's degree in philosophy from the same institution, and an LL.M. with a Certificate in International Law from Wake Forest University School of Law — trained to take an argument apart and find the assumption holding it up, which turns out to be most of what litigation is. He is ready to help you understand and navigate the system, in plain language, through every step of your case.
He is also an NCDRC Certified Superior Court Mediator, which means he spends part of his practice in the seat between the parties — useful experience to carry back to the client's side of the table.
He remembers that the most consequential trial in history was a wrongful one, decided by a court, under color of law. It is difficult to stand between a person and the State and believe the machinery is infallible.
Alongside the firm, he is the founder and executive director of LexAfrica Foundation, a North Carolina 501(c)(3) that works to widen access to legal information across the African diaspora. He treats the law as a profession with obligations, not a business with customers — and the nonprofit is part of how he pays that obligation.
Fees are quoted after the matter has been discussed, never before it is understood. Every engagement begins with a written Contract for Legal Services setting out the scope, the fee, and what is not included.
Most criminal defense and immigration matters are quoted as a flat fee for a defined scope, so the cost does not climb with the calendar.
Litigation and business matters that cannot be scoped in advance are billed hourly against a retainer, with itemized statements.
Court-ordered and private mediations are billed per session, divided between the parties as the court orders or the parties agree.
Installment arrangements are available for many matters. Raise it at the consultation — it is a normal question and it will not affect how your case is handled.
No attorney-client relationship begins until a written fee agreement is signed by both parties and the required fees are paid. Court costs, filing and USCIS fees, interpreter fees, and expert costs are separate from attorney's fees and are identified in writing before they are incurred.
Call the office, or send the details below and we will follow up to schedule a consultation. If your matter is urgent — an arrest, a court date this week, a notice with a deadline — please call.