Angela Giampolo

ANGELA GIAMPOLO – BIO

Angela Giampolo is an expert on LGBTQ+ legal issues and the founder of Giampolo Law Group, a law firm serving the LGBTQ+ community for all of their legal needs.

“Philly Gay Lawyer” is the advocacy arm of Angela’s law firm, and she actively blogs at www.Lawyer.LGBT and is a legal columnist for the Legal Intelligencer and the Philadelphia Business Journal. Angela appears on a monthly on an iHeartMedia radio show as the LGBTQ+ legal expert on a segment titled, SpeakOUT, and she has appeared on NPR, Wall Street Journal, American News Radio, Fox News and several Sirius stations.

In the wake of the first Trump Administration, Angela started a 501c3 non-profit, the Caravan of Hope, where she takes one month out of her firm every year to drive 5000 miles cross-country, stopping in 14 cities to provide legal services to underprivileged and underserved LGBTQ+ folks in rural areas.

In the wake of the Trump 2.0, Angela co-founded LGBTQ+ Pride Planning, an online and automated service providing affordable LGBTQ+ estate planning documents to folks in all 50 states.

Angela has served on many boards of local, statewide, and national non-profit organizations, including the Philadelphia Bar Associations Board of Governors, the Victory Fund, Liberty City Democratic Club, National Adoption Center, and Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Lawyers of Philadelphia (GALLOP).

In her career thus far, Angela has been bestowed the honor of being the National LGBT Bar Association Top 40 Under 40 LGBT Attorneys, Legal Intelligencer’s Most Diverse Attorney, Philadelphia Business Journal’s Woman of Distinction, Top 40 Under 40 Business People in Philadelphia, and Top 25 LGBTQ Owned Businesses 9 years running.

Angela has also worked in government at the Office of General Counsel in Harrisburg at the Election Law Division, as well as with the United Nations at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in prosecuting those responsible for the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.

Lastly, Angela is currently completing on her first book on how the LGBTQ+ community has protected themselves, their loved ones and their rights through estate planning.