Anda Totoreanu
Associate Attorney
Anda Totoreanu is an immigration attorney with Hemrick O’Malley PLLC, dedicated to providing compassionate, thorough, and strategic representation to individuals and families navigating the U.S. immigration system. She works across business, family-based, and humanitarian immigration matters, as well as removal defense, appellate advocacy, and complex legal research and writing.
Before joining Hemrick O’Malley PLLC, Anda practiced at boutique and mid-sized immigration firms, preparing a wide range of employment-based petitions including O-1, P-1, and EB-1 filings. She also has experience with adjustment of status applications, family-based petitions, waivers, and responses to Requests for Evidence. Her practice spans clients including executive leaders, small business owners, and domestic and international corporations across diverse industries, including the arts, E-sports, film and entertainment, media, higher education, information technology, biotechnology, healthcare and life sciences. Anda has deep expertise in providing a full range of immigration and naturalization legal services to doctors, scientists, artists, entertainers, entrepreneurs, and other highly skilled professionals.
Anda’s dedication to immigration advocacy began during her time at the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic at the Cardozo School of Law in New York, where she worked on complex matters involving criminal-immigration intersections, prosecutorial discretion, and motions practice before the Immigration Court. Her team received the clinic’s “Outstanding Team Award” after successfully helping a client vacate decades-old criminal arrests, reopen and terminate his removal order, and ultimately regain his lawful permanent residence after nearly twenty years outside the United States.
In addition to her litigation and humanitarian experience, Anda is a strong legal writer and researcher, with published scholarship in the Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice and prior academic work addressing international conflict and civil society. A first generation immigrant, she is committed to advancing human rights, equity, and dignity for immigrant communities. Fluent in English, French, and Romanian, Anda brings a cross-cultural and client-centered perspective to her practice. Whether advocating for an artist of extraordinary ability, preparing a family for an adjustment interview, or assisting a vulnerable client seeking protection, Anda’s focus remains on delivering thoughtful, high-quality representation grounded in empathy and integrity.
Education
- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D., 2023
- Online & Submissions Editor, Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice
- President, For Immigrant Rights and Equality (FIRE)
- Participant, Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic
- Member: OUTLaw, International Law Society, Women’s Law Initiative
- University of Oxford, M.Sc., Russian and East European Studies, 2016
- Lafayette College, B.A., International Affairs and French, 2015
Admissions
- State of New York
- U.S. District Court, District of Columbia – Pro Hac Vice
Honors & Awards
- Selected to Rising Stars: Super Lawyers New York Metro Rising Stars // 2026
- C. Bainbridge Smith Scholarship, New York City Bar Association // 2023
- DEI Law Student Scholarship, American Immigration Lawyers Association // 2022
- Berg Fellow, David Berg Foundation // 2022
- Outstanding Clinic Team Award, Clinic Legal Education Association (CLEA) // 2022
- James Alexander Petrie Prize, Lafayette College // 2015
- Rangel Graduate Fellowship Finalist, U.S. Department of State // 2015
- Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society // 2015
- Pi Delta Phi Honor Society // 2015
- Sigma Iota Rho // 2015
Legal Publications
- “Judicial Interpretation by Bankruptcy Courts and the Department of Education Regarding the Application of the Undue Hardship (“Brunner”) Standard to Student Loan Discharges,” Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice (2023)
- “How the Migrant Protection Protocols Were Put in Place, and Where We Are Now,” Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice (2022)
- “Value-Based Conflicts in the Regions Between the Oder and the Danube,” Partners for Democratic Change Slovakia (2018)
- “Political Representation of Ethnic Minorities and Socio-Demographic Groups in the Romanian Parliament,” Journal of Ethnic Studies (2017)
Other Publications
- “Prom Queens: Celebrating Prom Poems & Stories by Queens Writers.” Poets of Queens (2026)
- “Poets of Queens 2.” Poets of Queens (2024)