About Dorina
Dorina Cela earned a Bachelor of Arts from the City University of New York’s Hunter College in 2004, where she studied political science and psychology. She went on to receive her Juris Doctor from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2009. Those academic choices shaped an early interest in how institutions and individual behavior intersect, and they provided a foundation for a legal career in New York.
Her publicly listed career includes joining Phillips & Associates, Lawyers at Law, PLLC in 2021. Records show Phillips & Associates as her office affiliation; specific prior positions are not listed in the available information. Since becoming part of that firm, she has been associated with work tied to employment and labor concerns in New York.
Cela maintains memberships in several professional organizations that reflect her practice interests. She is a member of the National Employment Lawyers’ Association in New York, the New York City Bar Association and the New York Women’s Bar Association. At the New York County Lawyers’ Association she participates on the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, the Labor Relations & Employment Law Committee, and the Law and Literature Committee. Those affiliations connect her to colleagues across public and private practice, as well as to continuing legal education and committee work.
Her practice profile indicates attention to workplace and employment issues. She handles matters that often involve labor relations, workplace disputes and related negotiations. The committee work in alternative dispute resolution informs how she approaches settlements and mediation. Membership in labor and employment forums suggests regular engagement with evolving case law and administrative practice in that field.
Colleagues and clients who seek counsel in employment disagreements, labor negotiations or ADR matters will find that her background combines legal training and interdisciplinary undergraduate study. Her trajectory from Hunter College to Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and then into New York practice, gives a through line from academic study to professional application.
She currently practices at Phillips & Associates, Lawyers at Law, PLLC, handling employment law and labor relations matters.
