Immigration & Naturalization lawyers in California Michael Simkin to Tamiko O.

Firm: Simkin & Associates

1925 Century Park East Suite 1990 , Los Angeles , California 90067

Practice Areas: Condemnation & Eminent Domain, Franchise , Immigration & Naturalization , Litigation, Litigation

I am a litigator and managing partner of Simkin & Associates, Inc.  I am licensed to practice law in California, New York, and the District of Columbia.  Our firm focuses on real estate and business law.  We prosecute and defend breach of contract, fraud, negligence, and misrepresentation cases.  Our typical cases involve property owners, businesses, trustees, and realtors concerning purchase agreements, leases, contracts, and all other matters of residential and commercial property and business disputes.  We also handle employment and probate and trust litigation.  Michael Simkin has proudly is one of the Southern Californina lawyers identified as a Superlawyer!. We guide our clients through the legal maze from beginning to end including jury trials, appeals, and collection of money judgments.  We provide our clients with creative solutions, personal attention and cost effective services.

Firm: Manning & Kass Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP

801 South Figueroa St. , Los Angeles , California 90017

Practice Areas: Immigration & Naturalization , Patents, Trademarks, Patent Application, Patent Application, Patent Application

Roland Tong focuses his practice in all areas of intellectual property. He has prepared, filed, and prosecuted numerous utility, continuation, and design patent applications as well as federal trademark applications. He regularly conducts telephonic interviews with USPTO Examiners, prepares claim amendments and office action responses, renders invalidity or infringement opinions, and performs patentability and infringement studies. Mr. Tong has substantial experience in litigating unfair competition, misappropriation of trade secrets, and patent, trademark, copyright, and trade dress infringement cases.He has served as General Counsel and In-house IP Counsel for industry leading companies. In these capacities, Mr. Tong built their IP portfolios, conducted brainstorming sessions with their inventors, designed and implemented IP review systems for their products so that IP infringement risks are minimized, and prepared various types of IP agreements. Mr. Tong's clients come from a broad range of industries, including gaming device, medical device, printer cartridge remanufacturing, video games, and golf equipment design and manufacturing. For two consecutive years, Mr. Tong has been selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers Southern California Rising Stars in 2011 and 2012. Only 5% of the practicing attorneys in Southern California receive this distinction.

Firm: Steven Medearis, Attorney at Law

314 S. Melrose Drive. , Vista , California 92081

Practice Areas: Business & Commercial, Civil , Family , Immigration & Naturalization , Real Estate , Family

Our practice is dedicated to advising clients to "Know Your Rights" in the practices areas of Family Law and Immigration. Experience makes a difference. See how an experienced attorney knows his way around court can make a difference. While many issues can be settled out of court there are some issues where settlement is frustrated and having an attorney who knows his way in court is important. Attorney Medearis has six jury trials, many bench trial and hundreds of court appearances that can aid in resolving legal issues.. For many years we have helped people through tough situations. We have assisted our clients in dealing with their Divorce, Domestic Violence, Child Support, Child Custody and Visitation, Spousal Support, Military Family Issues, Division of Property, Paternity, Restraining Orders and their Immigration matters.. We offer a free half an hour initial consultation to know each other and to determine if we are a good fit to challenge your legal issues. We conveniently offer consultations Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday upon approval. Our office is located a few steps on the north side and across from the Vista Courthouse.. At our firm, we understand that we are not going through the best economic phase of our Country's economic history, for this reason we offer employed clients the flexibility to make a payment plan.. Friendly staff of attorney, Paralegal, and legal assistants are available to assist clients with their legal needs.

Firm: Stephen D. Eckdish, Attorney at Law

1956 Lombard Street , San Francisco , California 94123

Practice Areas: Immigration & Naturalization

Firm: The Law Office of Stephen Chen, PC

3200 Wilshire Blvd. , Los Angeles , California 90010

Practice Areas: Employment & Labor , Immigration & Naturalization , Securities , Family, Family

Stephen Chen is a Certified Family Law Specialist ("CFLS"), has been selected as a top rated Family Law attorney in Los Angeles, California and is a Super Lawyers Rising Star for 2018 through 2023.  Furthermore, Stephen was recognized as a top 100 Super Lawyers Rising Star across all areas of law for 2021 through 2023. Additionally, Stephen was selected as a Super Lawyer for 2024 and 2025.. During his time practicing Family Law, Stephen's primary goal has always been to achieve the best possible results for his clients while also being as cost efficient as possible in his approach.. Stephen graduated from Loyola Law School, where he found his passion for Family Law.  Prior to law school, Stephen attended the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) where he graduated with a B.A. in Political Science.

Firm: FMF Global Law Group

99 Dartmouth Dr , Larkspur , California 94939

Practice Areas: Employment & Labor , Immigration & Naturalization , Labor , Advertising

Firm: Law Office of Shalom Rubanowitz, Inc.

8222 Melrose Ave Ste 302 , Los Angeles , California 90046

Practice Areas: Debtor/Creditor Rights, Immigration & Naturalization , Lender , Real Estate , Foreclosure

Firm: LAW OFFICES OF SARA L CAPLAN

3550 Wilshire Blvd. , Los Angeles , California 90010

Practice Areas: Appellate , Criminal Defense , Immigration & Naturalization , Criminal Defense, Criminal Defense

Sara Caplan is a highly experienced criminal defense attorney (over 30 years). She also handles many immigration matters. She was for 11 years Of Counsel to Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro; and was co-counsel with Robert Shapiro for over 20 years. Ms. Caplan is a trial attorney, specializing in criminal defense (state and federal; adult and juvenile); professional administrative hearings (e.g., medical, dental, nursing, and real estate boards) and many types of immigration matters (administrative and court proceedings). She has also been appointed to the ICDA Bar Panel to represent indigent criminal defendants in Los Angeles County when appointed by the court due to conflicts with the public defender's office. She is very proficient in handling sex crimes, domestic violence and Title IX proceedings at colleges and universities. She is very successful in flushing out false claims and allegations, avoiding lifetime sex offender registration and jail, and avoiding expulsion from school.. Post 9/11, Immigration procedures have been drastically impeded, especially when criminal convictions or arrests are involved. Criminal matters have a major impact on one's immigration ability and status. Ms. Caplan specializes in representing individuals in such matters with extremely favorable outcomes.. Ms. Caplan has been involved in many complex, multi-defendant, and high-profile cases, which have proceeded administratively and in state and federal courts. She has always handled a high volume of cases and has extensive courtroom experience. Many cases have involved very complicated white-collar criminal fraud schemes, scientific evidence such as DNA, ballistics, toxicology, latent prints, forensic computer evidence and toxic environmental waste matters, as well as psychiatric mental health and sociological issues. She maintains excellent relationships with many judges, prosecutors and private attorneys throughout the State of Calfornia.. Ms. Caplan has handled many types of immigration matters, including alien petitions for temporary and permanent residency (based on marriage, labor, special ability, asylum and Torture Convention claims, etc.) and adjustments (through the Service and in Immigration Court). She has successfully litigated several Immigration court cases, mainly asylum and withholding of removal cases for immigrants originating in the republics of the former Soviet Union and Indonesia. She has done many merits hearings before many of the Immigration judges in the Los Angeles Immigration Court, as well as handling appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Firm: Law Offices of S. Ouya Maina

2140 Shattuck Avenue Suite 1110 , Berkeley , California 94704

Practice Areas: Election Campaign & Political , Employment & Labor , Immigration & Naturalization , Immigration

Firm: Gleckman & Sinder

3435 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 2380 , Los Angeles , California 90010

Practice Areas: Immigration & Naturalization , Immigration

Firm: Stone Grzegorek & Gonzalez LLP

800 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 900 , Los Angeles , California 90017

Practice Areas: Immigration & Naturalization , Immigration, Immigration

Michele Franchett is a partner at Stone Grzegorek & Gonzalez LLP.  She is admitted to the California Bar, and is a Certified Specialist in the practice of Immigration and Nationality Law.  She has over twenty years of experience in the field, and holdes the highest, preeminent "AV" rating from Martindale Hubbell.  Her current practice is focused on investor and entrepreneurial immigration, with particular emphasis on EB-5 capital group representation. She provides counsel to a number of regional centers seeking to obtain or amend regional center designations and exemplar petition approvals. Ms. Franchett serves on the EB-5 committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (“AILA”), the Public Policy Committee of Invest In the USA (“IIUSA”),  and is a former chair of the AILA Southern California Chapter.  Having started working in the area of U.S. immigration in 1986, Ms. Franchett has since accumulated experience encompassing virtually every area of business-based immigration. She has represented multinational corporations, research hospitals, universities, investors, entrepreneurs, academicians, artists, and entrepreneurs from around the globe.  Ms. Franchett has also represented clients applying for visas at U.S. Consulates in Toronto, Halifax, and Ciudad Juarez, and at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul. In more recent years she traveled to China to provide EB-5 training for licensed immigration consultants.

Firm: Reeves & Associates

2 North Lake   9th Fl , Pasadena , California 91101

Practice Areas: Immigration & Naturalization

Firm: Werner and Associates

90 New Montgomery   9th Floor , San Francisco , California 94105

Practice Areas: Immigration & Naturalization

Firm: Nathan & Associates, APC

2901 W. Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 200 , Newport Beach , California 92663

Practice Areas: Animal Bites, Automobile Accidents, Bankruptcy, Business & Commercial, Civil , Class Actions, Copyrights, Criminal Defense , Drug Crimes, DUI/DWI, Employment & Labor , Immigration & Naturalization , Intellectual Property , Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, Non-Profit Corporations, Parole and Probation, Personal Injury, Probate , Professional Malpractice, Slip and Fall, Trademarks, Trucking Accidents, Trusts, Wills, Class Action

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Firm: Maline Law Offices

3850 Vine Street , Riverside , California 92507

Practice Areas: Criminal Defense , Drug Crimes, DUI/DWI, Immigration & Naturalization , Juvenile , Parole and Probation, White Collar Crime, Criminal Defense

Firm: Paul N Walton Atttorney at Law

39791 Paseo Padre Parkway , Fremont , California 94538

Practice Areas: Automobile Accidents, Bankruptcy, Business & Commercial, Civil , Collections, Criminal Defense , Drug Crimes, DUI/DWI, Employment & Labor , Estate Planning, Immigration & Naturalization , Personal Injury, Probate , Traffic Violations, Trusts, Wills, Wrongful Death, Personal Injury

California attorney law practice serving all San Francisco Bay Area courts. Practice focuses on Employment Law (employees), Injury Accident Cases, and Criminal Case Defense (Petty Theft, DUI, Other Misdemeanors and Felonies). Free Consultation.

Firm: The Law Offices of Omar Gastelum & Associates

13181 Crossroads Pkwy N. , City Of Industry , California 91746

Practice Areas: Business & Commercial, Civil , Criminal Defense , Family , Immigration & Naturalization , Real Estate , Trusts, Wills, Criminal Defense, Criminal Defense

Omar Gastelum is an accomplished attorney with a strong background and broad experience in Family Law, Immigration, Real Property, and Civil Litigation.  On countless occasions he has shown a proven ability to negotiate and settle complex disputes and transactions.  Mr. Gastelum practices law in the State of California and represents clients throughout the United States and international clients with businesses in the United States.. Mr. Gastelum currently operates two offices; primary office in City of Industry, CA and office in Newport Beach, CA.. AREAS OF PRACTICE:

Firm: Bremer Whyte Brown & O'Meara, LLP

20320 SW Birch St , Newport Beach , California 92660

Practice Areas: Construction , Family , General Practice, Immigration & Naturalization , Insurance , Personal Injury, Family

Nicole Whyte has been identified by the well-recognized Daily Journal as one of California’s top 100 women attorneys. She has also been selected as one of America’s Top 100 attorneys (a lifetime achievement). Ms. Whyte is a founding principal and CEO of Bremer Whyte Brown & O’Meara, LLP, a 160+ attorney law firm with 8 office locations throughout the Western United States.  Admitted to the South African Supreme Court in 1990, the California State Bar in 1991, the Nevada State Bar in 2000, the Washington D.C. State Bar in 2011, and the Washington State Bar in 2012, Ms. Whyte has extensive experience in all aspects of litigation and trial. She focuses her practice in the areas of family law, complex civil and commercial litigation, trucking litigation, and insurance defense litigation. Ms. Whyte has been designated as a Certified Family Law Specialist by the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization since 2010. She has successfully litigated and tried hundreds of complex, multi-million dollar lawsuits, and has tried in excess of 30 cases to verdict (jury and judge trials).  She has been awarded the highest accolade in Martindale-Hubbell: an AV rating. This was as a result of an extensive, confidential review conducted among the legal profession in her community. The AV rating signifies Ms. Whyte’s legal abilities are of the very highest standard and her professional ethics are unquestioned. Ms. Whyte also has been consistently named California “Super Lawyer” by Los Angeles Magazine, and she has been consistently ranked in Super Lawyer’s lists of top attorneys in Southern California and Orange County.. Even more pertinent than her awards and ratings, Ms. Whyte strives to keep her clients’ interests at heart, and reach timely resolutions of challenging situations. Within the family law field, she handles a multitude of issues such as divorce, custody, visitation, modifications, child support, parentage/paternity, property division, prenuptial agreements, postnuptial agreements, dependency actions, and spousal support. Ms. Whyte provides individualized counseling and representation in all areas of family law and listens carefully to her client’s problems to provide representation that is strategic and effective.. Ms. Whyte has written extensively in her fields of expertise, and she is also a regular speaker at legal conferences across the United States.   Ms. Whyte has authored chapters in two published Family Law books, “Strategies for Family Law in California” 2010 edition published by Aspatore, “Streamlining Strategies and Costs in today’s Family Law Cases”, and “Strategies for Family Law in California” 2012 edition published by Aspatore, “Staying up to date with New Developments and Strategies in California Family Law Litigation”.. Ms. Whyte is a member of the Family, Construction and Insurance sections of the Orange County Bar Association, the Clark County Bar Association (Nevada) and the American Bar Association. She is a member of the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists. She is a past member of the Civil Procedure and Evidence panels of the Orange County Bar Association’s Resolutions Committee. She has graduated twice from the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) program in trial advocacy and is a Master Bencher and past officer of the Robert A. Banyard Inn of Court. Ms. Whyte also serves as a mediator, and has served as settlement officer for the Orange County Superior Court. She is also a Board Member of the Masters' Division of the Orange County Bar Association.. Ms. Whyte is also active in the international legal community.  She is a member of Consulegis, an international network of lawyers, and she has been a featured speaker at Consulegis'  bi-annual conferences. She also has close ties to her original mentor attorney in South Africa, Brian Kahn, where she began her legal career.  Ms. Whyte's law firm, Bremer Whyte also has a strategic alliance with Brian Kahn, Inc. in Johannesburg, South Africa.. Ms. Whyte is a board member of the Sonenshine Pro Bono Opportunities Committee, an Orange County organization comprised of attorneys and Judges who provide Pro Bono legal opportunities  to newer members of the Orange County bar, by matching attorneys with potential Pro Bono clients. Ms. Whyte is also a board member of the Public Law Center, a pro-bono law group that provides access for low income residents of Orange County.. A native of Johannesburg, South Africa, Ms. Whyte received her Bachelor of Arts and her LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand, located in Johannesburg, South Africa. After graduating from law school, she served as state prosecutor at the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court in the criminal division. During this time Ms. Whyte had the opportunity to try a variety of criminal cases. Following her tenure as state prosecutor, she gained general civil and commercial litigation experience at Brian Kahn Inc. Attorneys, a boutique litigation law firm in Johannesburg. Ms. Whyte immigrated to the United States in 1991.. Ms. Whyte and her husband, Steven Nataupsky, managing partner of the Intellectual Property law firm Knobbe Martens, live with their 4 children in Newport Beach, California. When not practicing law, Ms. Whyte enjoys spending time with her family, exercise, piano, travel, reading, and baking and cooking with her daughter Rachel.  Ms. Whyte is also an avid student of the martial arts, and she has competed and placed in karate tournaments (kata and sparring) in Southern California.

Firm: U.S. Immigration LAW Group, LLP

1913 E. 17th Street , Santa Ana , California 92705

Practice Areas: Employment & Labor , Family , Immigration & Naturalization , Immigration, Immigration, Immigration

Monica E. Lukoschek is a partner at U.S. Immigration Law Group, LLP. As a first-generation American, she has personal experience with the immigration system, which is why she decided to become an immigration lawyer. Since earning her law degree, she has co-founded a law firm, served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Orange County Bar Association Immigration Section, served as President of the Board of the Orange County Hispanic Bar Association, and presented at several educational seminars. Currently, she focuses on obtaining work visas (e.g. E-2, H-1B, and L-1) for her clients, as well as assisting employers with the Labor Certification (PERM) process and I-9 compliance. She has advised international entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes regarding employment-based immigration and visa processing

Market Street , San Francisco , California 94102

Practice Areas: Divorce,Family ,Immigration & Naturalization