2012
HASTINGS
The Law Offices of Lea McDermid, LLC provides legal
representation to noncitizens and has extensive
experience in the following areas:
Family-Based Immigration Issues
Domestic Violence Immigration Issues
Removal and deportation defense
Immigration Custody and Bond Issues
Lea McDermid is fluent in Spanish. Prior to going into private practice, she worked as the Domestic Violence Staff Attorney in the Immigration and Refugee Services Program at Catholic Social Services in Anchorage, Alaska. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. She has also practiced immigration law in San Francisco and she clerked for Chief Justice Dana Fabe of the Alaska Supreme Court. As an undergraduate, she attended the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with honors.
She is a member of the Alaska Bar Association and the California Bar Association. She is authorized to practice immigration law before the Department of Homeland Security (formerly known as the INS), immigration court, and the Board of Immigration Appeals. She has also been admitted to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and has done oral argument before the Ninth Circuit. She is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the National Lawyers Guild Immigration Project. She is on retainer with the Mexican Consulate and has represented the University of Alaska Anchorage. To be able to most effectively represent her noncitizen clients, her practice is limited to immigration and nationality law.
She studied Spanish in Mexico and Guatemala and worked in the fields of social services and criminal justice for six years in San Francisco and Santa Barbara, California before going to law school. Lea is passionate about traveling and she has traveled extensively in Mexico, Central America, Europe, and Thailand. In her free time she keeps busy hiking, running, skiing, rock climbing, cycling, kayaking, and white water rafting.
For additional information, please visit our website: www.leamcdermid.com
2003
Boalt Hall School of Law
Ms. Stock is experienced in providing a full range of family and business-related immigration services to individuals, as well as to regional, national, and international corporations. Depending on the immigration service required, Ms. Stock may assist clients with submission of petitions to any US immigration agency, representation in administrative hearings, appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and litigation against the US Government or other parties.
1993
Harvard Law School
About my firm.
2000
Boston University
Attorney Lisa H. Donnelley has been practicing law in Alaska for over twenty years and has focused her practice on U.S. immigration law since 1999. A large part of Ms. Donnelley's practice involves assisting employers in obtaining non-immigrant and immigrant visas for their essential employees (H-1B, E, L, TN, O, PERM, outstanding researchers and professors, etc). In addition, Ms. Donnelley regularly handles family-based immigration cases, deportation and removal defense, and naturalization cases.
1999
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON