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With unmatched professional and personal dedication to the practice of immigration law, I am committed to listening to clients and guiding them confidently toward their goals.. Brooke B. Mengel is an Associate Attorney at Wilson Law Group with extensive experience in all immigration matters.  As a member of the Wilson Law Group litigation defense team, Brooke routinely represents clients before the Executive Office of Immigration Review in detained and non-detained settings, the Board of Immigration Appeals and the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.  In addition, Brooke successfully represents individuals and businesses before the U.S. Citizenship and immigration Service, various agency offices, and consulates abroad.. Adept at identifying strong points in unique situations, Brooke provides strategic planning across the spectrum of immigration matters. Brooke guides clients thorough their immigration matters by listening and explaining the process so the client can move confidently toward their goal.. During law school, Brooke was an active member of the Latino Law Student Association, worked as a paralegal in private practice, and served as a bilingual clerk for Hennepin County Domestic Abuse Servicer Center as an advocate for victims of domestic abuse.. Bar Admissions:. Memberships & Professional Development:. Education:. Publications & Speaking Events:

Brittany Bakken has been practicing immigration law since 2013. Brittany has extensive experience representing clients in all aspects of immigration law and immigration-related federal litigation. Brittany takes great pride in helping her clients understand their complex legal processes and collaborating to achieve their immigration goals expeditiously.. Brittany has been named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers for 2020-2021. She has volunteered since 2014 with the Volunteer Lawyers Network to provide pro bono legal services at the Brooklyn Legal Clinic. She has been an author of the Minnesota CLE Immigration Practice Deskbook Deskbook since 2014. Brittany is a frequent speaker at CLEs in Minnesota and around the country.. Prior to working in immigration law, Brittany worked in higher education, supporting programs that were dedicated to expanding access to undergrad and graduate-level education for historically underserved populations, diverse socio-economic learners, and immigrant communities.. Brittany is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.. Brittany obtained her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota. During law school, Brittany served as an articles editor for the Minnesota Law Review. She was also a supervising student attorney in both the Civil Practice and Child Advocacy Clinics.

Esteban A. Rivera is admitted to practice as an attorney in the State of Minnesota and Ecuador, South America. In 2013, he founded Rivera Law Firm, LLC. At Rivera Law Firm, he serves as a managing partner and practices mainly Immigration Law. He handles employment-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 Igbanugo Partners Int'l Law Firm, PLLC, where he worked mainly on Business Immigration and Individual Immigration matters. He worked at Igbanugo Partners 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. Prior to joining Igbanugo Partners, he worked as judicial extern to the Honorable Michael J. Roith in Anoka County, Minnesota. During the summer of 2009, he was selected as Minnesota Justice Foundation Summer Law Clerk and worked at Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Service in the Refugee, Immigrant, and Migrant Unit where he also handled immigration cases. 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 currently serves as Vice President of the Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association and has been a Board Member and an Officer since 2009. He has also been serving as a Board Member of the Hennepin County Bar Association since 2011. He voluntered at Linea Legal Latina and currently volunters at Volunter Lawyers Network. He is the coach of the Hamline School of Law team at the Hispanic National Bar Association Uvaldo Herrera Moot Court Competition.. Mr. Rivera is a member of the following organizations:. -American Immigration Lawyers Association. -Minnesota State Bar Association. -Hennepin County Bar Association. -Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association. -Hispanic National Bar Association. -Colegio de Abogados de Pichincha, Ecuador (Pichincha Bar Association)

Paula Schwartzbauer has been practicing immigration law since she graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1996.  After law school, Ms. Schwartzbauer practiced immigration law with Julie M. Zimmer & Associates until 1999, when she was recruited by Centro Legal, Inc. – a non-profit law office serving low-income Latinos – to supervise its immigration unit.  In 2002, Paula was asked by Hamline University School of Law to create and teach an immigration law clinic as an adjunct professor.  Paula practiced immigration law at the Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis (Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid), another non-profit law office serving low-income people, from 2007 until 2013.  She also continued her work as adjunct professor at Hamline University School of Law by co-teaching its immigration law clinic.  In March 2013, Ms. Schwartzbauer opened up her own private law office, Paula Schwartzbauer Law, LLC.. In 1995, Ms. Schwartzbauer interned with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and interviewed Iraqis to determine if they met the requirements for international refugee protection.  Paula has taught many continuing legal education courses on immigration law and has served as a mentor for volunteer attorneys taking asylum cases through The Advocates for Human Rights.  She has also volunteered with the Advocates for Human Rights to give presentations to the general public on refugees and immigrants.  Paula is fluent in Spanish and speaks some Farsi.  She holds U.S. and Iranian citizenship.  Ms. Schwartzbauer is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and previously served on AILA’s liaison committee with the local office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now Citizenship and Immigration Services).. Paula also has an interest in international human rights law.  In 1994, Ms. Schwartzbauer interned with the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ), a human rights non-governmental organization located in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and helped prepare and present a submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva.  Ms. Schwartzbauer also served as CAJ’s Researcher on Policing from 2003 until 2004.  Paula has also participated in two human rights missions with The Advocates for Human Rights.  The first was to observe the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Process and the second was to Ghana, where she interviewed Liberian refugees on behalf of the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.  Paula was an annual guest lecturer in the international human rights law course taught at the University of Minnesota Law School from 1996 until 2002 and worked at the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center from 1993 until 1996.

Listed in Best Lawyers in America since 2008, Attorney with AV Rated Borene Law Firm, P. A. - U.S. & Global Immigration. Scott Borene is Senior Attorney with the Borene Law Firm, a global immigration firm based in Minneapolis. He has had more than 30 years experience handling employment-based immigration matters. Scott Borene has been repeatedly recognized as one of the Top 20 Corporate Immigration Lawyers in the World “most highly regarded” by other lawyers and general counsel - Who’s Who Legal. Scott Borene was selected by other lawyers as 2016 and 2018 Lawyer of the Year in Immigration Law in Minnesota as noted by The Best Lawyers in America.. Borene Law Firm is listed in Tier 1 of U.S. News national ranking of Best Law Firms. Scott Borene is Editor-in-Chief of several AILA reference books including, The Global Immigration Guide: A Country-by-Country Survey, Immigration Options for Academics and Researchers, and The Global Immigration Guide: Crossing Borders for Business and author of Dr. Yes-Immigration Options for Doctors. He is a past national Director of AILA and chaired AILA’s Global Immigration Summit conferences in 2002 and 2004. He recently completed a two-year term as worldwide Co-Chair of the International Bar Association (IBA) Immigration Committee, the world’s largest global bar association based in London. He served two terms as AILA Chapter Chair and was Conference Chair of the 1996 AILA National Conference. He is a past Chair of the NSC Liaison Committee and past Chair of the INS Headquarters Adjudications Liaison Committee. In 2000, he was selected to receive a President’s Commendation Award “For Setting a New Standard in INS Headquarters Liaison.”. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Minnesota’s William Mitchell Law School.