Charles International Law

Alanna L. Wade, Esq.

Senior Associate Attorney

About Alanna

Alanna L. Wade is a Senior Associate Attorney at Charles International Law. Her background combines legal work, humanitarian evacuation support, and firsthand experience as a commercial diver.

Her commercial diving experience gives her a practical perspective on the work of divers and other maritime workers. Her training includes offshore commercial diving at Divers Institute of Technology and commercial tender/diver training at the Minnesota School of Commercial Diving.

Alanna’s prior legal roles include litigation specialist at Tolbert & Tolbert LLC, intellectual property work at Hartman Global IP Law, and brief writing at Midwest Disability. She also served as a Systemic Lawyering Corps member with Harvard Law School’s Systemic Justice Project.

Humanitarian Work

Alanna and Nathan Charles began working together during the humanitarian crisis following the fall of Kabul in August 2021. Their efforts to help evacuate Afghans endangered by their relationships with the United States helped lay the foundation for the firm’s asylum and humanitarian immigration practice.

Her humanitarian background also includes analytical and communications roles with AFGfree, an organization supporting the evacuation of U.S. citizens, Afghan partners, and their families.