Esteban A. Rivera is admitted to practice as an attorney in the State of Minnesota and in Ecuador. In 2013, he founded his own practice, Rivera Law Firm, LLC. At Rivera Law Firm, he serves as a managing partner and practices mainly Immigration Law. He handles employment-based immigration, investment-based immigration, and family-based immigration cases before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). He also represents clients in removal proceedings in front of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (Immigration Court), Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. He also practices International Law with emphasis in Latin America. Prior to founding Rivera Law Firm, he worked at a prominent Immigration Law firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he worked mainly on Business Immigration and Individual Immigration matters. He worked for over three years handling very complex cases before USCIS, Immigration Courts, BIA and the U.S. Court of Appeal for the 8th Circuit. He represented hundreds of clients in all levels of U.S. immigration matters, including 500 Fortune companies as well as individual clients, and also in various litigated civil and criminal matters.Born and raised in Quito, Ecuador, Mr. Rivera is a native Spanish speaker. He received his law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, where he graduated in the top 5 percent of his graduating class. Mr. Rivera worked for over five years as an associate and law clerk for two well-known law firms, where he practiced Intellectual Property and Corporate Law, representing mainly Forbes Global 2000 companies.Mr. Rivera is also very active in the legal community in Minnesota. He was served in the following organizations: Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association, Member 2011-Present / Member of the Board of Directors 2009-2017 / President 2015-2016; Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA), Member 2009 – Present; Hennepin County Bar Association, Member 2011 – Present / Member of the Board of Directors 2011-Present / Secretary 2017-2018 / Treasurer 2018-2019 / President-Elect 2019-2020 / President 2020-2021 / Diversity Committee 2011-Present, Leadership Nominating Committee 2014-2015, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020 / Evaluation of Executive Director Committee 2014; American Immigration Lawyers Association, Member 2011-Present; Minnesota State Bar Association / Member 2011-Present / Immigration Section, Member 2011- Present , Member of the Council 2016-2017.