Los Angeles / New York
IVENER & FULLMER LLP
11601 Wilshire Blvd. # 1430
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Tel: (310) 477-3000 Fax: (310) 477-2652 Web
Mark A. Ivener has been practicing law in Los Angeles for over 35 years. He has lectured on U.S. immigration law for the World Trade Institute in New York, Houston, Chicago, and San Francisco. He has also lectured for the International Bar Association in Munich, Madrid, and New York. He has participated in many immigration seminars for the Law Societies of British Columbia and Alberta and the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Mr. Ivener has authored the following books, Handbook of Immigration Law, Volumes I and II [1980; 2nd edition, 1982; and 3rd edition, 1986; Online edition,1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005]; Doing Business in the USA Under Free Trade [1989; 2nd edition, 1990]; Get The Right Visa [1992; 2nd edition 1994]; A Complete Guide To Getting An American Visa (in Japanese) 1993; 2nd edition 1994; 3rd edition 1999]; and Have You Thought About Immigrating To The US? (in Spanish) [1995]. He has also written many articles on immigration law which have appeared in the International Law Journal, the Canadian-American Bar Association Newsletter, Business and the Law and World Trade Trends.
Mr. Ivener has received the highest rating accorded by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. Martindale-Hubbell has also selected Mr. Ivener inclusion in the "Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers" in the area of Immigration Law.
Mr. Ivener is a founding member of IMMLAW, The National Consortium of Immigration Law Firms. He was educated at the University of Illinois (B.A.,1964) and at U.C.L.A. Law School (J.D., 1967) and admitted to the California Bar in January 1968.
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San Francisco
LAWLER & LAWLER
201 Filbert St., Ste. 400
San Francisco, CA 94133
Tel: (415) 391-2010 Fax: (415) 781-6181 Web
Martin J. Lawler has been practicing law for more than 28 years. He is listed in Best Lawyers of America and has an “A” rating from Martindale-Hubbell. He has also received a number of American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) presidential awards.
Mr. Lawler has authored many books, book chapters, and articles. He is the author of Professionals: A Matter of Degree, a leading treatise on business visas. Professionals, published by AILA, is now in its fourth edition (released in June 2003).
Mr. Lawler has litigated nationally important cases. He has been Chair of AILA’s H-1B (professional work visa) committee. He has lectured throughout the United States on various visa matters including at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana; AILA conferences in Austin, Boston, Chicago, Maui, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Tucson and other cities; the California Bar Association, Monterey, California; Practicing Law Institute, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Mr. Lawler received the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s prestigious “Jack Wasserman Memorial Award” in 1996 for excellence. He has also received an AILA Award for mentoring women in the law and awards for his books.
Mr. Lawler is listed in the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, and as a Northern California Super Lawyer (2005). He was admitted to the California Bar in 1977.
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London
HODKINSON LAW GROUP
19/20 Grosvenor Street
London, W1K 4QH U.K.
Tel +44 20 7493 1595 Fax +44 20 7493-7915 Web
Kehrela M. Hodkinson was admitted to the California State Bar in 1980, after graduating from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. She established her first law office in Los Angeles, California in 1982, where her practice concentrated on nonimmigrant visas and employment and family-based immigration matters. After moving to San Francisco, California in 1987, she founded a second immigration law firm and continued to provide expertise relating to temporary and permanent visas for business personnel and family-based immigration. Since 1994, Ms. Hodkinson has exclusively practiced US immigration and nationality law in London.
New York
MILLER MAYER, LLP
202 East State Street, Suite 700
Ithaca, New York 14850
Tel: (607) 273-4200 Fax: (607) 272-6694 Web
Stephen Yale-Loehr is currently co-author of Immigration Law and Procedure, the leading multi-volume treatise on immigration law published by LexisNexis Matthew Bender. He also teaches immigration and asylum law as an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School. In 1994 and 1995 he was a Senior Associate (Non-Resident) for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., working on immigration policy issues. Until 1994 he was the Co-Editor of Interpreter Releases and the Executive Editor of Immigration Briefings, two leading immigration law newsletters. Until 1990 he was an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center teaching international trade law and immigration law.
He is a member of the New York State, District of Columbia, and Tompkins County bar associations, the American Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). He chairs AILA's Business Immigration Committee and is a member of AILA's Investor Visa and Immigration Reform committees. He is also listed in Who's Who in America and An International Who's Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers, where he is listed as one of the best immigration lawyers in the world. Because of his prominence in immigration law he is frequently quoted in the media.
He has also testified before Congress on immigration issues. Mr. Yale-Loehr is the coauthor of many books, including America's Challenge: Domestic Security, Civil Liberties and National Unity After September 11, Balancing Interests: Rethinking the Selection of Skilled Immigrants, J Visa Guidebook, Understanding the Immigration Act of 1990, and Understanding the 1986 Immigration Law, and numerous law review articles. He also co-authors a bi-monthly immigration column for the New York Law Journal. He is the 2001 recipient of AILA's Elmer Fried Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2004 recipient of AILA's Edith Lowenstein Award for Excellence in Immigration Law.
