About

Born in France and raised in America, Julia Grégoire is a French-American lawyer admitted to practice law in France (Paris) and the U.S. (New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island). She is a graduate of Brown University and Boston University Law School and studied French law at the Ecole du Pré-Barreau in Paris.

Julia gained professional legal experience in both countries, including in the U.S. judiciary (Massachusetts Appeals Court, Rhode Island Superior Court), the human rights field (International Senior Lawyers Project), and at some of the world’s best-ranked corporate law firms (Hogan Lovells LLP and Kramer Levin).

Julia is bilingual in French and English, and fully fluent in Spanish and Italian.

Core values:

• Efficiency
• Responsiveness
• Integrity

Hinal Parekh holds a Master’s degree in International Law from the University of Strasbourg. Prior to these studies, she graduated from the University of Paris (Créteil) with a Bachelor of Law degree in International Law, where she studied the Anglo-Saxon common law legal system. Hinal is fully fluent in English and Gujarati, her native language.

During her legal experience prior to joining Avocat Grégoire, she enjoyed working in English and found her calling: immigration law. As a result, at the beginning of 2023, she interned for three months with the law firm of Claudia Gregoire, in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Enriched by this experience, she joined Julia Gregoire’s law firm as a part-time legal associate (juriste) in May 2023.

During her graduate-level legal studies, Rose Venini specialized in European Law and Foreign Languages at the University of Tours. In 2023, she will be graduating with a Master’s degree in law from the University of Tours. In addition to her Master’s studies, Rose holds an undergraduate diploma in French law and Common law from the University of Paris (Nanterre). Thanks to this rigorous legal training, Rose is fully fluent in the principles of both the French and common law legal systems. Her academic studies have allowed her to fully master the complex vocabulary of legal English. Rose recently completed a Master’s level thesis examining the exact procedure of applying for French citizenship by descent before the Paris Judicial Court, also known as the procedure to obtain a Certificate of French citizenship.

Hailing from an Italian family, Rose speaks Italian fluently. Passionate about foreign languages, Rose studied Italian, Spanish, and English throughout her schooling. She has traveled extensively within Europe, to Italy, and the United Kingdom as well as to the United States.

Rose has already completed several legal internships including a general law firm specialized in litigation before French courts, in a company’s legal department, and a genealogy firm. Rose began her legal internship at Avocat Grégoire in March 2023.

Alexandra Goudal holds a Bachelor’s degree in Private Law and a Master’s degree in International and European Fundamental Rights Law. (French equivalent to American J.D. diploma)

During her university studies, she had the opportunity to complete a professional training internship at EDF’s European Affairs department in Brussels, granting her experience in an international multilingual environment.

Following her law school graduation, Alexandra had the opportunity to work as a legal intern at a Paris-based law firm specializing in immigration and French citizenship law.

Passionate about her experience at this law firm, she then decided to pursue her next professional training in this field by working as a legal trainee for six months on the Avocat Grégoire team starting in June 2024.