Stephanie Carrion

Stephanie A. Carrion is a trial lawyer at Farmer & Klopfer in Waldorf, Maryland, where she represents clients in personal injury and criminal defense matters throughout Maryland and Washington, D.C. A first-generation Dominican American attorney and the only Spanish-speaking lawyer at her firm, she is known for her courtroom advocacy, technological fluency, and commitment to clients who might otherwise be overlooked. She was selected as a 2026 Super Lawyers Rising Star.

Stephanie A. Carrion is a first-generation Dominican American attorney who was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. She graduated magna cum laude from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and Sociology. During her undergraduate years she was active in Alpha Xi Delta Sorority, the Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies, the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and the Pre-Law Association.

Her path toward the law began early. As a teenager, an encounter with the legal system left a lasting impression when an attorney told her that the mistakes of today do not have to define tomorrow. That experience reshaped her sense of what was possible and drew her toward a career built on changing lives the way hers had been changed. Initially drawn to criminal justice and the idea of investigative work, she refocused on advocacy after interning with the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, where she found she preferred representing adults and the greater opportunities for change that come with defense work.

Carrion attended the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in Baltimore, Maryland, where she gained hands-on experience across the private and public sectors. She worked at private criminal defense firms, the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, and the Maryland Law Criminal Defense Clinic, one of the nation’s top-ranked clinical law programs. She was also involved in the Maryland Association for Justice, the Criminal Law Association, and the Latino Law Student Association. She was admitted to the Maryland bar in 2023 and is also licensed in Washington, D.C.

Carrion joined Farmer & Klopfer directly out of law school and has practiced there throughout her career as an Associate Attorney, working under the mentorship of managing partner James Farmer. Based primarily at the firm’s Prince George’s County office, she handles criminal defense matters including DUIs, traffic violations, misdemeanors, and felonies, and she represents plaintiffs in personal injury cases involving car accidents, slip-and-falls, and dog bites. As the only Spanish-speaking attorney at her firm, she serves clients across Southern Maryland, Washington, D.C., and the wider state, from Baltimore in the north to St. Mary’s County in the south.

She is known for a willingness to take cases to trial rather than settle for less than a client deserves. In her criminal defense work, she emphasizes holding the state to its burden on every element of a charge, an approach that grew out of a case in which her client had been charged in a hit-and-run based solely on his registration to the vehicle, with no witness able to identify the driver; by focusing the defense on the unproven question of identity, she secured an acquittal. In her personal injury practice, she favors litigation over a quick settlement, and in one matter involving a client struck by a driver who ran a red light she rejected a low pre-litigation offer and ultimately obtained a judgment roughly three times that amount.

Carrion became one of the youngest attorneys in Maryland inducted into the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a group limited to trial lawyers who have achieved million and multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements and representing fewer than one percent of U.S. lawyers. In 2026 she was selected as a Super Lawyers Rising Star.

Much of Carrion’s philosophy centers on access to justice, particularly for Spanish-speaking clients who risk being misunderstood at critical moments, from field sobriety instructions to descriptions of how an injury occurred. She views careful, native-language communication as essential to accuracy, credibility, and a fair outcome, and much of her work involves slowing a case down to make sure a client is genuinely understood rather than merely assumed to be.