"I started this practice because the firm I worked for was running 80 cases per attorney. You couldn't remember names, let alone read every page of an EB-1A petition. I now keep my docket capped at 35."
I'm a 12-year immigration attorney admitted in California and New York. I focus on three lanes — family-based filings, employment-and-investment visas, and humanitarian asylum / U-visa work — with a paralegal team of four supporting evidence build, translation, and follow-up adjudication.
Before founding this office in 2018, I spent six years at Berenson & Hu (a 220-attorney immigration shop) and two years at the Northern District U.S. Attorney's Office on the civil side. The split background means I've sat at both tables — the petitioning side and the federal side — and that shapes how I read every file.
Built a small immigration practice with one attorney and four paralegals. Approximately 110 active retainers per year across family, employment, and humanitarian lanes. Capped intake to maintain quality of evidence.
Managed an 80-case docket of EB-1A, EB-2 NIW, and O-1 petitions for clients in financial services and tech. Co-led the firm's RFE-response team and authored an internal training manual on extraordinary-ability standards.
Litigated civil immigration matters on behalf of the federal government. The two years at this table changed how I read every USCIS denial — I know what an adjudicator looks at first.
Federal appellate clerkship focused on immigration appeals from the BIA. Drafted bench memos on cancellation of removal, withholding of removal, and CAT-protection cases.
Coursework focused on constitutional immigration law, refugee & asylum, federal-courts. Pro bono representation of unaccompanied minors through the school's clinic. Bachelor's in International Relations, UC Berkeley (2010).
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