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Hassan Elkhalil, born in Beirut, Lebanon, has lived, worked and traveled in many countries.  Hassan’s education includes degrees in B .A. in Political Science from the University of Tennessee; Juris Doctor from John Marshall Law School, and LL.M. in Alternative Dispute Resolution from the University of Missouri, Columbia school of law.  In the last few years, he negotiated and worked with people from over 100 countries.  He speaks fluent Arabic and is studying Spanish.  Hassan has coached many individuals on cross cultural business practices. He has provided acclaimed training and consulting to companies in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. Hassan has been practicing law for the last Fourteen years with a background in Business Consulting.  His practice is focused on small to medium size businesses in Atlanta, Georgia and around the world.  He acted as an outside counsel/consultant for many local, national and international companies.  Hassan is a hard working individual, leader, problem solver, positively relate with people from diverse backgrounds. Hassan has sound decision making skills; public relation and interpersonal talent; superior communication; enthusiastic and positive.  The highlight of Hassan’s practice has been preventive cross-cultural conflicts.. Hassan Elkhalil is a member of the Georgia Bar and is admitted to practice in the State Courts of Georgia, the U.S. District Court and the Northern District of Georgia. Additionally, Mr. Elkhalil is a member of the American Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association.. Hassan Elkhalil is fluent in Arabic. He is active in the community and participates in a variety of community, cultural, and civil rights organizations.

Brazilian citizen by birth and American citizen by choice, I am licensed to practice law in Brazil and in the United States. I currently practice 100% immigration, and my office is located in midtown Atlanta. It would be my pleasure to talk to you about your case and have the opportunity to help you in your legal matters.

Born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, Peter has always been committed to social justice.  In his immigration practice he is most interested in deportation defense and representing people in ICE detention. Peter now lives in Decatur, GA with his wife and three children.. Peter is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.. Between college and law school Peter spent a year in Guatemala. He worked for the Human Rights Ombudsman's office in Quetzaltenango (La Procuraduria de los Derechos Humanos) and later La Defensoria Maya in Santa Cruz del Quiche.. While at Georgetown University Law Center Peter successfully represented a Falun Gong practitioner from China in an asylum case. His partner on that case, Ms. Robyn Painter, is now his wife. At the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project Peter worked under the supervision of Ms. Holly Cooper. There he successfully represented an unaccompanied minor held in INS detention in his asylum case. The client was from Honduras and sought asylum as a member of the particular social group street children. Peter also spent a summer in San Jose Costa Rica at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.. After law school, Peter spent over three years a criminal public defender defending adults in misdemeanor and felony cases.. Most recently, with MALDEF, Peter was a lobbyist at the state capitol.. Peter is an enthusiast of live theater, a fan of the SF 49ers, SF Giants, Seattle Seahawks, Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays. Thanks to his wife, he is increasingly a fan of eating and cooking good food.

Tia Smith is the founding member of Tia Smith Law (formally Daniels & Smith, LLC). Her area of expertise focuses on business and family immigration and civil litigation.  Tia's thorough and focused analysis of each stage of the legal spectrum, and valuable insight into difficult multifaceted matters and complex cases has resulted in solid client relationships and superior work product, qualities that serve as the bedrock of Tia Smith Law.. Tia's immigration practice focuses on a variety of employment based and family based matters. She has extensive experience representing large corporations including domestic and international companies in the various fields of education, engineering, information technology, and international religious organizations. She works hand in hand with clients ensuring that global mobility and expansion objectives are compliant with federal immigration regulations.  Tia also successfully represents individuals in federal proceedings in front of the U.S. Department of Labor, Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Board of Immigration Appeals.. In addition to her immigration practice, Tia provides day to day counsel to clients regarding their estate planning needs.

Jama Ibrahim is a founding and co-managing partner of Ibrahim & Rao LLP. Mr. Ibrahim practices all aspects of U.S. Immigration and Nationality Law. He assists individuals and families in deportation cases, green cards applications, temporary visas and naturalization/citizenship matters. Mr. Ibrahim is an expert in asylum law and represents clients with humanitarian applications, including U and S visas, as well as applications under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Mr. Ibrahim also assists employers and corporate clients with employment based visas including H1B, H2B, L, E, P, R1 visas, as well as with employment based labor certifications and applications for permanent residence, including EB-1, EB-2 and EB-5 applications.. As an experienced litigator, Mr. Ibrahim has handled complex deportation cases representing clients from all over the world in hundreds of trials before the U.S. Immigration Court around the country, including Atlanta and Stewart County (Georgia), Charlotte (NC), New York (NY), New Orleans (LA), Memphis (TN), Cleveland and Cincinnati (OH), Miami and Orlando (FL), Los Angeles (CA), Arlington (VA), Baltimore (MD), and El Paso (TX). Mr. Ibrahim also handles appeals before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) and assists in other federal immigration matters.. Mr. Ibrahim’s background as someone who has lived in several countries and traveled around the world before legally emigrating to the U.S. from Canada makes the perfect immigration lawyer with knowledge of the immigration needs of his clients and families. Mr. Ibrahim graduated with a Bachelor's degree in History with honors from Carleton University, located in Ottawa, Canada. He then went on to attend the University of Ottawa law school and graduated with an LLB (Juris Doctor). During his law school years Mr. Ibrahim worked with the University of Ottawa Community Legal Clinic (a pro bono legal aide service) where he gained firsthand experience in client representation and court room exposure. After law school, Mr. Ibrahim moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he worked for a boutique Atlanta law firm as an associate immigration attorney following his admission to the New York State Bar. In October 2009, Mr. Ibrahim co-founded with Rathi Rao the Firm of Ibrahim & Rao LLP. Within five years Ibrahim & Rao grew from a single office to three full time offices in Atlanta, Gainesville (GA) and Greenville (SC).. Mr. Ibrahim speaks Arabic and Somali, and is currently learning Spanish. Mr. Ibrahim is admitted to the practice of law by the New York State Bar and the Supreme Court of New York. He is a long time member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the Atlanta and Alabama AILA Chapter and the New York State Bar. He is an active participant in community activities and is regularly called on to speak on immigration issues in events organized by advocacy organizations.

Originally from the inner city in the south side of Chicago, David graduated cum laude from Mercer University School of Law in 2012. An avid enthusiast of international affairs, he has taken classes in Chinese/Legal Studies at Harvard and the China University of Political Science and Law. In 2011, he clerked for the United States Attorney's Office in Chattanooga, TN. He has published works on race relations in America, racial disparities in capital sentencing, and protecting children against parents’ extreme religious indoctrination practices. In addition to managing his solo law office, he also works extensively in real estate law. He is a member of the Professionalism Committee of the Young Lawyers Division of the Georgia State Bar and has been appointed by the State Bar President to the Georgia Bar Journal Editorial Board for a 3-year term (2014-2017).

Thad
Servi is the managing principal at Vazquez & Servi, P.C. He
is a graduate of Georgia State University College of Law, a member
of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), a former
AILA-Atlanta chapter liaison to the Executive Office For Immigration
Review (EOIR), a member of the Georgia Hispanic Bar Association,
The Atlanta Bar Association and, The State Bar of Georgia. Attorney
Servi speaks Spanish fluently and has focused his practice on
immigration law since 2000. He is married and is the father of
two bilingual children. In his spare time he enjoys outdoor
activities, spending time with his family and he is available
to discuss immigration law at community events.

Ms. Padberg completed her undergraduate education at Tufts University in Boston, where she graduated cum laude with a degree in International Relations. She also attended the Taipei Language Institute in Taipei, Taiwan and received a certificate in Chinese Language. She studied law at Georgia State University, and attained her J.D. degree in 1989. Ms. Padberg has been extremely active in Immigration issues both on the local and the national levels. Her memberships and titles have included:

Theresa Bailey Kennedy is a principal in Frazier, Soloway & Kennedy, P.C. She graduated cum laude from Georgia State University School of Law (’07), Georgia State University (M.A. ’01) and the University of Virginia (B.A. ’91). She has presented major seminars on EB-1/EB-2 National Interest Waivers before audiences of scientists, researchers and academics in various states. She is active in the Atlanta Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Mr. Phil Kuck is an attorney with Kuck | Baxter Immigration. Mr. Kuck guides employers through the complex U.S. business immigration process. He also counsels individuals seeking to enter the United States, to those who want to change or adjust status, and to those seeking naturalization.. Mr. Kuck graduated magna cum laude with his Juris Doctor from Georgia State University College of Law. He also received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University in Political Science with a minor in Mandarin Chinese.. While in law school, he served as the Lead Articles Editor on the Editorial Board for The Georgia State University Law Review and participated on and coached the Moot Court team for the Jessup International Moot Court Competition. He also served as an Honor Court Judge for the Student Bar Association, a Pupil in the Logan E. Bleckley Inn of Court, and a judicial extern to The Honorable Judge Wendy L. Shoob of the Superior Court of Fulton County. In law school, Mr. Kuck received several awards including CALI Awards for Excellence in Professional Responsibility, Negotiations, and Wrongful Convictions, as well as honors from GSU Law for Excellence in Professional Responsibility. Following graduation, Mr. Kuck was inducted into the Order of the Coif in 2017.. Mr. Kuck lived in Taiwan for two years during his undergraduate studies and as a result speaks, reads (both traditional and simplified characters), and writes fluent Mandarin Chinese.

I first came to Atlanta to study chemical engineering at Georgia Tech. After working for a while in the consumer products research and development field, I decided it was time to change gears. I attended law school at night while continuing to work as an engineer, and have not looked back since. The engineer in me always gets a thrill out of analyzing complex situations and formulating thorough and thoughtful solutions, but what I enjoy most about the practice of law is getting to meet new people, hear their stories, and help them see their goals realized.

Founder and Managing Partner of Orza Global Immigration LLC. Her practice focuses primarily on U.S. immigration and nationality law and international migration issues. Ms. Orza devotes her practice to representing corporate and individual clients in an array of business and family immigration matters.. Ms. Orza has experience representing companies in a variety of industries in all aspects of business immigration, including employment visas for professionals, intra-company transferees, immigrant visa petitions, consular processing, adjustment of status applications, and naturalization applications. She assists foreign investors in obtaining non-immigrant E visas and EB-5 immigrant visas. She works closely with EB-5 Regional Centers, EB-5 service providers, and other professionals to guide her clients through the complex EB-5 Investor Visa process.. She has extensive experience representing employers seeking certification by the U.S. Department of Labor on applications for alien employment certification (PERM). She has executed a full range of employment-based immigration strategies, including immigrant petitions for foreign nationals of extraordinary and exceptional ability, outstanding researchers, and multinational managers and executives. Ms. Orza represents individuals with various family immigration issues, obtaining immigrant and non immigrant visas, maintaining lawful status, and applying for U.S. citizenship through naturalization.. EducationJ.D., Tulane University School of Law, 2004B.S., University of Georgia, 1999. Admitted to PracticeGeorgia, 2006Louisiana, 2005 (inactive member)Georgia Supreme Court. Professional AssociationsGeorgia Bar Journal Editorial BoardAmerican Immigration Lawyers AssociationChair, American Immigration Lawyers Association – Atlanta Chapter New Member Division. Publications/PresentationsImmigration Options for Foreign Investors, Seminar Speaker, ICLE Nuts & Bolts of Business Law, State Bar of Georgia, February 10, 2011.. EB-5 Investment Seminar, EB-5 Investment Green Cards, BB&T Bank, Atlantic Station, Atlanta, Georgia, October 28, 2010.. No Second Chances: Immigration Consequences of Criminal Charges, Georgia Bar Journal, Vol. 13, No.2, December 2007

I am both an attorney in France where I am admitted to the Paris Court of Appeals, and in the United States where I am a member of the State Bar of Georgia. I advise clients on current immigration legislation, handling nonimmigrant and immigrant visa applications and regularly attend interviews at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service field Offices nationwide. I also represent clients before the immigration courts in removal proceedings as well as refugees in their asylum applications. In addition,I litigate cases before the Board of Immigration Appeals and before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.