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Pamela Vallero is a trial attorney at Gruenberg Law. Pamela fights for the rights of those who have been subjected to unlawful discrimination, wrongful termination, and retaliation. Pamela is a native Spanish speaker and routinely counsels clients in that language. 

Pamela grew up in Medellin, Colombia and moved back to the U.S. in her teens. She is a first generation American, college graduate, and now attorney. Her parents are both Colombian and now reside on the East Coast. She is one of three sisters.

Pamela joined Gruenberg Law in 2017. Since then, Pamela has worked as trial counsel recovering millions for her clients. As trial counsel, Pamela recently obtained a $1.1 million jury verdict for a janitor who suffered disability discrimination by her employer, a large national company. It was the second largest civil rights jury verdict in San Diego County in 2019. Pamela has accumulated a track record of standing up to businesses that violate the law.

Prior to joining Gruenberg Law, Pamela served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Charles W. Dortch, Jr., in the Superior Court of New Jersey. Before becoming a judicial law clerk, Pamela served as a judicial extern to both Magistrate Judge William V. Gallo and District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.

Pamela obtained her B.S. from Georgia Southern University in 2007 and then received her J.D. from Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2015. She lived in Korea between 2008 and 2012 where she taught Spanish and English.

Pamela maintains memberships with the following organizations for attorneys: the California Lawyers’ Association Labor and Employment Law Section; the San Diego County Bar Association; San Diego La Raza Association; Consumer Attorneys of San Diego; San Diego Lawyers’ Club; Women of Color in the Law; the American Bar Association; the Federal Bar Association, Latinas in the Law; and The Louis M. Welsh American Inn of Court.

Pamela has been a speaker at employment law-focused seminars with Ellevate Network, the Military Spouse J.D. Network, Las Valientes – God’s Heart Ministries. Pamela routinely speaks on Spanish-speaking radio and television networks, including La Poderosa and NBC San Diego.

In her spare time, Pamela enjoys exploring new things with her six-month-old daughter, Olivia, going to the dog beach with her puppy, Goku, and playing chess and scrabble with her husband, David.

Email: [email protected]

IG handle: @pamvallero which will soon become @ladefensoradeltrabajador

Evelyn Hahn is a compassionate immigration attorney and a Managing Partner at David Hirson & Partners, LLP, which is a full-service immigration law firm, headquartered in Costa Mesa, California with branch offices in Seattle, Washington and New York City, managing around 20 staff internally and assisting both corporate and individual clients from over 30+ countries.

Her passion in immigration law deeply ingrained in her because she was one of them and personally underwent the same immigration process herself. Having a full understanding of how difficult, challenging and complex the entire immigration process can be based on her personal experience, her goal is to help each of her clients, both corporate and individual clients, to expand into new opportunities, overcome obstacles, and ultimately achieve their immigration goals in the U.S. She truly believes in helping her corporate clients move around/hire talented foreign national employees to work on their critical projects in the U.S. as well as individual clients achieve their American Dream just like she did. 

She represents both corporate/business clients and individual clients on all aspects of immigration law, including business, investment, and family immigration as well as immigration litigation. 

Evelyn represents small, mid-size and large companies, both domestic and multinational companies, hospitals and other healthcare related facilities, entertainment companies, as well as non-profit and religious organizations and successfully filed hundreds of employment-based non-immigrant visas, including E-2, H-1B, J-1, K-1, L-1, O-1, R-1, and TN visas as well as immigrant visas, including PERM labor certifications, and EB-1 (EB-1-1, EB-1-2, and EB-1-3), EB-2 including the National Interest Waivers, EB-3, and EB-4 immigrant petitions. She also advises her corporate clients about the immigration consequences of mergers, acquisitions, corporate restructuring, employer sanctions, and immigration law audits including labor condition applications and I-9 verification.

She also focuses her practice on EB-5 investment immigration, representing both individual investors on I-526’s and I-829’s and regional centers and project developers on all aspects of the EB-5 program, including regional center creation, establishment of new EB-5 projects by filing the Form I-924’s, and the EB-5 program compliance in general.

Evelyn also has significant litigation experience in representing immigration clients in federal court, successfully filing writ of mandamus actions and securing temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions until such cases ultimately reach a settlement, resulting in final approvals.

Evelyn has spoken at several conferences, seminars, webinars and other speaking engagements, covering various immigration topics. She is licensed to practice law in California and District of Columbia. She is fluent in English and Korean.

The firm’s website is www.hirson.com, her email is [email protected], her Instagram is attorney_evelynh, and her profile is available on LinkedIn as well.

Esther S. Noh passionately practices immigration and nationality law. Ms. Noh is a first generation Korean-American who grew up in Anchorage, Alaska.

Taly is a Los Angeles native and the founder of Goody Law Group, LLP.  She was raised by Iranian immigrant parents in Torrance, California and is fluent in Farsi.  She attended the University of California, Irvine (UCI), where she was President of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.  She graduated from UC Irvine with a BA in International Studies with a focus on Africa & the Middle East.

Taly attended the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego.  There, she received the Witkin Award for Academic Excellence for her legal writing class.  During law school, she was a member of MELSA (Middle Eastern Law School Association) and later became the President of MELSA.  She graduated law school cum laude in 2014.  Thereafter, Taly began working at a boutique law firm in Century City, specializing in art transactions and business litigation.

Taly always knew she wanted to be a leader and business owner, so she started her own law firm in September 2019 focusing primarily on personal injury and employment law.  In addition to running her own law firm, Taly mentors many aspiring lawyers from high school, college, law school, and beyond.  She hosts monthly seminars for prospective law students on various legal topics.  More information about Taly and Goody Law Group can be found at www.GoodyLawGroup.com  Follow Taly on TikTok at @TalyGoodyEsq, on Instagram @TalyGoodyEsq, and her law firm account on Instagram is @GoodyLawGroup.

Kimberley Felton is a 2018 graduate of Albany Law School

with a Juris Doctor in the Law. Prior to attending Albany

Law, she graduated from the College of Saint Rose with a

Bachelor’s in political science & history. Kim has known

since a young age that going into the legal field was her

calling. Upon stumbling into immigration law in August

2016, she has never looked back. She graduated law

school with over 1,300 hours of pro bono service and vast

immigration experience. In June 2019, she started a business called Innovation Litigation, providing contract-based work to immigration lawyers. Once she had a taste of running a business, she was certain that she wanted to run a firm. In October 2020 she opened Onward Immigration, a virtual immigration law firm that serves immigrants seeking to gain status in the United States. She was admitted to practice in the State of Minnesota in August 2020, which is when she got to work building Onward Immigration. She spends her time learning how to better serve the immigration community, seeking to find various avenues to help each client obtain their ultimate immigration goal. Onward Immigration seeks to change the game for what it means to have an immigration attorney, and to change the fractured trust between the immigration community and the legal profession. Kim resides in New York with her husband and their kids. She is the mom of two boys, both who she had during law school & immediately after graduating. In addition, she has two fur babies named Bubba & Loki.

To get ahold of Kim or Onward Immigration:

https://onwardimmigrationlaw.com

(347) 669-2730

[email protected]

For contract legal services through Innovation Litigation:

https://innovationlitigation.com

[email protected]

Nina is an Associate Partner at Dabdoub Law Firm, a Miami-based plaintiff’s

A graduate of Florida International College of Law’s evening program, Nina

If you or someone you know has a disability claim, or is thinking about filing

Ify Ononogbu is an immigration and family law practitioner in Dallas, Texas. She assists in reuniting families through family based immigration, deportation defense, child custody, modifications and divorces. She studied international studies at Baylor University and got her JD from American University Washington College of Law and her LLM in European Union Law from Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, Spain. After working and studying law in several countries including the United States, Spain, Colombia and Peru, she opened her own boutique law firm in Dallas, Texas ..Law Office of Ify Ononogbu. She is a lawyer that listens and is in your corner. She resides in Dallas, Texas with her husband Chike and their dog, Arya.

Kelicia Letlow-Peroune, the founder of KYL Law Firm, is a native of Guyana and was called to the bar in Ontario Canada. Kelicia represents clients before the Federal Court of Canada, as well as the Immigration Tribunals within the Immigration and Refugee Board. She has extensive knowledge of the Canadian immigration system, having successfully challenged humanitarian and compassionate application refusals, denial of refugee claims and detention orders, to name a few. Kelicia’s specialized skill set also includes assisting families with complex, emotionally challenging family law cases, which include custody/access and child protection matters. Over the years, she has assisted clients from over twenty countries, some of which include the Philippines, India, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Nigeria, The Central African Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, and the United States of America. Prior to starting her own law practice, Kelicia worked and volunteered with community, nongovernmental, and international organizations and she is passionate about social justice. She is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, the Women’s Law Association of Ontario, and the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers. If you have questions about Immigration or Family Law or want to connect with Kelicia, reach out to her on Instagram or Facebook at kyllawfirm. Further information about KYL Law Firm is available at https://kyllaw.com

Bibi Fell is routinely recognized as one of the top plaintiff lawyers in the nation. Bibi’s record-breaking results include a $105,000,000.00 verdict, the largest Intentional Tort Verdict in California in 2018, the second-largest overall verdict in 2018, and a top-ten verdict nationwide. Because of her track record, insurance companies know Bibi is willing to go to trial.

Bibi’s philosophy is to maintain a small caseload so every client gets the attention they deserve. At Fell Law, PC, clients are treated like family.

Follow Bibi on Instagram @felllawpc

Attorney Leslie Perez Perez was born and raised in Cuba and came to the United States at the age of 24. She was an attorney in Cuba; however, due to the government's complete disregard for human rights, She was forced to abandon my roots in search of a better judicial system. Within 5 years in the United States, she was admitted as an attorney in the State of Florida.

In 2017, Lisbet Velazquez, Esq. (also a born and raised Cuban) and her founded their firm, VPP LAW FIRM. As they both understand first-hand the challenges that come with the language barrier they are very passionate to advocate for those who don’t clearly understand their rights. Our doors remain open for those in need of legal representation.

Currently, Attorney Leslie Perez Perez continues to expand their law firm. Specifically, she specializes in  real estate law, contract law, and civil litigation defense. Attorney Leslie Perez Perez has been able to successfully help clients not only buy the home of their dreams but also refinance. Call her at (305) 549-8280 or find VPP Law Firm on Instagram and Facebook, you will not regret it!