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We believe in equal access to justice. We provide access to legal services for those who are too poor to hire private attorneys at the market rate but too rich to be qualified for free community legal services. My office charges on a sliding scale directly proportional to income so that anyone can have a fair access to justice: hourly rate=2% of gross monthly income, starting from $40/hr*. My areas of focus includes: Landlords/Tenants, Immigration, Trademark Prosecution, and Estate planning**. (* scope of representation may vary. ** limited to simple/statutory wills and healthcare directives)

The Law Office of Janice Cho is a client-oriented law firm specializing in helping individuals understand and resolve family law and immigration issues efficiently and effectively and with professionalism, integrity and compassion. Ms. Cho has been practicing law since 2004, with significant expertise in family law and immigration law. Ms. Cho earned her Bachelor’s Degree, with honors, from the University of Chicago. She later received her Juris Doctorate degree from Northwestern University School of Law. After law school, Ms. Cho began her career working exclusively in the area of family law and immigration law. She has supervised legal clinics, provided technical assistance to pro bono attorneys, provided trainings on family law and immigration law, and regularly volunteers in numerous capacities with the Court.. Ms. Cho understands that many of her family law clients are in crisis, need immediate high-quality representation that they can trust, or need to establish personal and financial security in the wake of family separation. She guides her clients through the nuances and complexities of family law and immigration law and offers each of her clients an individualized client-directed approach that addresses each client's specific objectives.. Her family law practice includes, but is not limited to marital dissolution, premarital agreements, post-marital agreements, divorce and separation; custody and parenting arrangements; child and spousal support; and valuation and division of community property assets and debts, including real estate, business interests, professional practices, personal property, retirement benefits and other investments.. Ms. Cho's immigration practice focuses on family-based petitions, VAWA's, U-Visas, and Naturalizations and Citizenship applications. She is dedicated to helping her clients in ways that large firms cannot by providing highly personalized and effective immigration solutions.

Otis C. Landerholm, Esq. is the founding attorney of Landerholm Immigration, A.P.C., an immigration law firm based in Oakland, CA. Otis wants to change the world by defending the rights of immigrants who are caught up in the legal system. He speaks Spanish and Mandarin Chinese and has lived in several countries, including Spain, Argentina, Japan, China, and Ecuador. He is a graduate of Washington State University and the Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco. He is a certified specialist in immigration and nationality law from the State Bar of California, having demonstrated a high level of experience in immigration law and been favorably evaluated by other legal professionals. Call now and set up a free evaluation with a skilled immigration attorney in Oakland.

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Ms. Lee is a founding partner at Becker& Lee LLP. She received her law degree, Juris Doctor, from King Hall, UC Davis School of Law in 2003, and her university degree, Bachelor of Arts in Economics, from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1999. Ms. Lee has worked with three immigration law firms in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area focusing on all areas of immigration law. She has represented clients in removal proceedings before the Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the Ninth Circuit. She has also represented many clients in Federal District Court filing mandamus lawsuits against the U.S. government. Including removal defense, Ms. Lee has experience in asylum, employment based immigration, family based immigration, naturalization applications, hardship and criminal waivers, consular processing, and representing victims of abuse, crimes and human trafficking. Ms. Lee served on the American Immigration Lawyer's Association (AILA) Northern California Council from 2005 to 2011—where she was the Young Lawyer's Division co-coordinator and then the Advocacy co-coordinator where she organized local and national meetings with Congressional representatives to advocate for immigration reform. She is currently a council member of the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic Alumni Council (ILCAC). Ms. Lee is a mentor attorney for the pro bono asylum program of the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR), and a volunteer attorney with Centro Legal de la Raza, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and the Asian Law Caucus. During the summer of 2001, Ms. Lee studied international human rights law at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France and interned at the World Organization Against Torture in Geneva. Prior to attending law school, she worked as a community advocate at the Asian Law Caucus, a legal services organization in San Francisco. Ms. Lee is the daughter of Korean immigrants - she is fluent in conversational Korean.

Mr. Becker is a founding partner at Becker & Lee LLP and is certified as a specialist in immigration and nationality law by the State Bar of California’s Board of Legal Specialization. He is a graduate of Tulane Law School in New Orleans and also holds a bachelor's degree in Spanish and Psychology from the University of Montana-Missoula. Mr. Becker previously worked with three immigration law firms in the San Francisco Bay Area where he practiced all areas of immigration law. Mr. Becker represents a number of companies and individuals in the employment-based immigration context, including mid- and small-sized businesses, researchers and scientists and IT professionals. He also has litigated numerous cases before Immigration Courts and has successfully argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has experience in all areas of immigration law, including removal defense, employment-based immigration, waivers, consular processing, asylum, adjustment of status and naturalization. He has been invited to speak on immigration law panels regardinginadmissibility waivers, the Defense of Marriage Act, Prosecutorial Discretion and LGBT asylum issues.

I was born in Oakland, California. I graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1997, and U.C. Hastings College of the Law in 2003. I've been practicing law since that time. In 2009, I opened my own office to focus on criminal defense. I'm a member of the Alameda County Bar Association's Criminal Court Appointed Attorneys' defense panel, and California Attorneys for Criminal Justice. I take great pride in the relationships I have built over the years in our local courts, and I look forward to defending your rights.

I earned my law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2006, where I received awards for Best Brief in Moot Court for excellence in written argument and the Witkin Award for Academic Excellence in Negotiation and Mediation. During the summer of 2004, I worked as an extern for the Honorable Maxine M. Chesney in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. I am a member of the State Bar of California and the Alameda County Bar Association.

I am an active member of the State Bar of California and the American Immigration Lawyers Association who has advocated for hundreds of asylum applicants and won several defenses to deportation in US immigration courts. I have fout hard to achieve legal immigration status for the most disadvantaged clients, especially those who were victims of domestic violence and other life-threatening crimes.. I grew up in a family that immigrated from Peru, and am a fluent English and Spanish speaker. Long before embarking on my law degree, I  demonstrated my deep commitment to immigrant rights by spending hundreds of hours volunteering as an interpreter for asylum applicants, many of whom were fleeing domestic violence and civil unrest in Central America.. I earned my JD from the University of San Francisco, graduating cum laude and earning prestigious awards and scholarships throughout my academic career. As a law student, I partnered with the UC Hastings Center for Gender and Refugee Studies on a project that involved interviewing experts and witnesses about gender-based violence in Guatemala. By providing pro bono legal advice at Centro Legal de la Raza, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, and the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, I assisted hundreds of clients without the means to pay for legal counsel.. I stay deeply connected with my Latina roots as an accomplished musician and folkloric dancer. I performs with Ensambles Ballet Folklorico de San Francisco, Bululú, the De Rompe y Raja Cultural Association, and many other musical ensembles around the Bay Area.

Founding director and attorney at Social Justice Collaborative, a nonprofit immigration and criminal defense legal services organization in Oakland.

Elisabeth A. Pellegrin (Liz) has over a decade of professional experience working with immigrants in the area of immigration law. She is a Certified Specialist in Immigration & Nationality Law by The State Bar of California. Her current private practice has been exclusively dedicated to immigration and nationality law since 2011.. Liz is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the Alameda County Bar Association (ACBA), the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), and the National Immigration Project of the NLG. She is the past Co-Chair of the San Francisco Bay Area NLG Chapter's Immigration Committee. She serves on the Advisory Council of the Northern California Chapter of AILA and is currently Chair of the ACBA Immigration Section.. Liz is fully bilingual in written and oral Spanish. Liz has represented clients in her practice from around the world, including individuals from Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, Italy, Guatemala, Argentina, El Salvador, Germany, Turkey, Venezuela, Serbia, Jamaica, Bolivia, the United Kingdom, Peru, Spain, Yemen, Kenya, Australia, France, Colombia, Honduras, Fiji, Japan, Honduras, and the United States. She frequently presents on immigration issues, including at schools and churches. Attorneys practicing in other areas of law also consult with Liz about immigration related issues.. Liz's experience goes beyond the professional. She is a California, Bay Area native but comes from an extended family of immigrants. She went through the entire immigration process with a family member, from immigrant petition to naturalization. Liz has lived in multiple foreign countries. She is a mother and raises her two children in a bilingual and bicultural home. Liz's work is part of her personal identity.. Liz considers herself a public interest, social justice, or people's lawyer.  Her guiding principle is Gandhi's "Be the change you wish to see in the world."  This goal is what sent Liz abroad for years, led her to attend law school, and brought her into a career in immigration law.  It also is the foundation for how she relates with clients, colleagues, and the greater world.  Liz is active in the immigration attorney community, her local neighborhood, her children's schools, and in the broader political realm.  Liz believes that we all can strive to fight the overwhelming injustices of the world from the simplest actions and interactions to the more complex and coordinated efforts to combat systemic inequality.. See  for further details.

Chung Phang- is the principal of the firm, a former Political Science Lecturer, was educated at U.C. Hastings Law School, U.C. Berkeley (PhD program in Politics), and Brandeis University (cum laude). Mr. Phang has had 20 years of highly successful experience in complex immigration, civil, and family law litigation.

Certified as Immigration Law Specialist by the California Board of Legal Specialization of the State Bar of California.

Ashley Byers is an experienced immigration lawyer who is fluent in Spanish. She has successfully defended clients in immigration courts throughout the United States in cases ranging from custody redeterminations to asylum, withholding of removal, NACARA, registry, cancellation of removal, and waivers. She also represents clients before USCIS in family based immigration, U visas, naturalization, and other immigration strategies. She is passionate about providing tireless advocacy to her clients including victims of domestic violence, child abuse, gender-based violence, and unaccompanied minors.. Ashley obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Middle Eastern and North African Studies with university honors from the University of Michigan. She obtained her JD from Michigan State University College of Law, and was recognized among high achieving students on the Dean’s List upon graduation. In law school, she was named the Julian Samora Research Institute Legal Research and Writing Scholar, focusing her research on the federal regulations protecting dairy workers. She additionally worked as a law clerk for Farmworker Legal Services of Michigan where she served the undocumented and H2A visa migrant farmworker population in the state. Ashley was a member of the American Bar Association's National Appellate Advocacy Competition championship-winning moot court team and served as Editor in Chief for Volume 15 of the Journal of Business and Securities Law.. Ashley is a member of the State Bar of California, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Northern District of California, Eastern District of California, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She is active in the Hispanic community in Sonoma County, collaborating with her mother every year to exhibit ofrendas in celebration of Dia de Los Muertos and her Mexican heritage.