Ming Siegel

Tel: (202) 734-6756 | Email: ming@bartondownes.com

Ming Siegel is Barton & Downes’ paralegal and office manager. She assisted R. Joseph Barton and Colin M. Downes in opening the firm in 2023. Ming is responsible for managing the current caseload, assisting Barton & Downes with any litigation related projects and handling new client intake. She is also in charge of running the firm’s day-to-day operations including recordkeeping, bill processing, filing documents, and other administrative tasks.

She has worked with R. Joseph Barton since 2016, when she began her career as a paralegal in the Employee Benefits/ERISA practice group at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, a plaintiff-side law firm specializing in class action litigation. In 2017, she moved to Block & Leviton LLP, another plaintiff-side class action ligation firm, where she assisted R. Joseph Barton with opening a new DC office and new Employee Benefits and Veteran Benefits practice groups for the firm. She spent 6 years at Block & Leviton managing the DC office and assisting R. Joseph Barton and Colin M. Downes in litigating multiple class action cases.

Prior to becoming a paralegal, Ming attended the College of William & Mary and received her B.A. in 2016. At W&M, she first developed an interest in the law when she took a freshman seminar course called “The Warren Court Then & Now.” The course inspired her to take additional courses on the United States Supreme Court, which culminated in her self-designing her own interdisciplinary major entitled “Constitutional Theory & History.”

During her time at W&M, Ming pursued additional legal research opportunities. In 2015, Ming was a Civic Education Fellow with the Constitutional Sources Project, a non-profit organization aimed at promoting discussion about the U.S. Constitution. That summer, she was also awarded the H. Stewart Dunn Civil Liberties Fellowship and participated in the Dunn Civil Liberties Project seminar in the subsequent fall semester. In 2016, Ming was a Student Researcher with the W&M Mattachine Research Project, where she helped document LGBTIQ legal history in Virginia.

Although a native Long Islander, Ming has since relocated to Washington, D.C. where she currently resides with her husband and two dogs.