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Washington, Dc, Us

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Arlington, Virginia, United States

· Render Legal Services: Independent contracting and per-diem work to various law firms. Provide legal services to individual clients on various immigration matters, including various NIVs, Permanent Residency, and Citizenship. Interview visa applicants, conduct research, prepare and review cases, produce legal writing including petition briefs and responses to Requests for Evidence. · Current with Immigration Reform: Up-to-date with changing immigration laws; attend various panels, discussing changes and their effects. · Published in Bar Journal: Authored article discussing necessary changes to the EB-5 Visa program (see below).· Contract Attorney: Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy. Part of a large legal team handling NIV for firm’s largest client, one of the top three users of H-1B visas. Supervise team of paralegals to handle high volume caseload, which averaged 200+ a week. Analyze documentation, conduct legal research and compile evidentiary records. · Contract Attorney: Sullivan & Cromwell via Epiq Systems. Complete foreign language review and analyze documents for responsiveness, privilege, confidentiality and pertinent issues. Perform audio review and quality control with a focus on finance and securities.· Contract Attorney: Jones Day via Strategic Legal. Review and analyze documents for responsiveness and privilege relating to merger and acquisition of two fortune 500 companies as requested by the Department of Justice. This entails searching for documents that would impact competition with other companies such as: contracts with vendors, results of research on the companies’ current consumers and that of their competitors, advertising and other such documents.· Contract Attorney: Deloitte via B3 Legal. Complete foreign language review and analyze documents for client’s internal wrong doings in violation of contract bidding laws.

Princeton, Nj

• Successful Employment Based Visas: Provide legal service to corporate clients on Nonimmigrant and immigrant employment based visas such as H1B, L1A, L1B, EB1, EB2, EB3, E3, I140 and I485, including RFEs and Motion to Reconsider for such cases. Working on 20 or more cases at any given time. • Successfully completed: 150 H1B Visas in 12 month period (50 in Cap Season).• Counsel to Corporate Clients: Advise on immigration issues and legal compliance. · Informed and up-to-date with Immigration Law: Research and study statute, regulations and case law related to immigration law and immigration reform. · Creative Communication: Author articles and promotional material for firm. · Modernized Firm’s Technology: Implementation of cloud-based case management systems including: INSZoom, Microsoft One Drive and Google Docs.

Washington, Dc

• Successful Immigration Cases: Provide legal services to individual clients for: Green Card and Citizenship, Motions for Reconsider of family based sponsorship, family based petitions, and Employment Authorization. Consult clients, conduct research, prepare and review cases.• Successful General Practice Cases: Advise on and review property contracts for clients, counsel and prepare clients for driver’s license reinstatement; and advocate for clients in breach of contract negotiation. Conduct legal and transactional research, draft and produce legal writing.

Reviewed pre-trial pleadings such as Answers, Summary Judgment, Briefs and Notice for both criminal and civil cases. Advised the Judge with what decisions should be made with regard to each case and reviewing applicable law. Researching applicable law included current Bills in Congress, any legislative history and applicable case law.

As an Intern for the Democratic party of Minnesota I was focused on the finances of the campaigns in the state. Send out contribution forms and evaluated the contribution from each district and organization in the state of Minnesota. Worked on an endorsement project to obtain financial contribution for different candidates running for election in the state of Minnesota. Was heavily involved with the financial data management and updates for the Democratic party.

Interned for representatives Keith Ellison and Thomas Huntley that were part of the Health Care, Environmental Justice, and Criminal Justice Committees. Reported results and discussions from committee meetings and when the Senate and House amended relative bills. Researched statutes to create speeches for representative to present on the floor. Spoke to constituents on behalf of the representatives to explain the intent and expected outcome of bills

This non-profit organization is tailored to address the issues of Hispanics in the United States and affect of US law and treaties on Latin American countries. Researched Treaties such as CAFTA to see understand its impact on citizens of the United States and Latin American countries. Raised awareness of the negative effect of CAFTA by writing news articles. Researched the Doha Round of The Ministerial Declaration and GATS to de-brief the Center of its affect on the world.

J.D, Law

Activities and Societies: Social Committee Chair- Organized a variety of events throughout the year for students and faculty to attend..

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science, Spanish Studies

Students Today Leaders Forever- Board Member: Charitable organization that’s geared towards raising awareness of human kindness.