Atessa Chehrazi, Immigration Attorney
909 Montgomery Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94133
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| | Biography: | Atessa has been a partner at Jackson & Hertogs since April 2013 and an associate/senior associate since July 2000. She was previously an associate at Maggio & Kattar in Washington, D.C. from 1996 to 2000. She has held several volunteer roles within the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) during her career. For AILA’s Northern California Chapter, she has served as Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Service (USCIS) liaison, and Customs & Border Protection (CBP) liaison. On a national level, Atessa served on AILA’s USCIS Headquarters and Benefits, Administrative Appeals Office (AAO), and Department of Labor (DOL) liaison committee. In addition, Atessa has served on AILA’s Business Immigration Advocacy, Issues, and Due Process & Civil Liberties committees, as well as several conference committees. She has authored articles published in AILA Handbooks and has presented at national and regional AILA conferences. Atessa has served as a board member of the Iranian American Bar Association Northern California chapter since 2009, served as President of the chapter 2014-2015, and was the chapter honoree at the Bar Association of San Francisco Minority Bar Council annual unity awards event in 2014. She is a member of the National Lawyers Guild and was the NLG Immigration Project’s honoree in 2013. Atessa has been highly reviewed in legal directories, including selection as a Northern California “Super Lawyer” (2010-2012, 2015-2016), and listing in the International Who's Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers. | | College: | University of California at Berkeley, B.A., 1991 | | Law School: | Washington College of Law, J.D., 1995; Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M., 1996 | | Membership: | Bar Association of San Francisco; AILA (Member: Middle East Interest Group; Committees on: Business Immigration; Due Process & Civil Liberties; AILA National CIS Liaison Committee; AILA NorCal Chapter (Chair, 2008?). | | Admitted: | 1996, California | | Military: | n.a. | | Practice Area: | Immigration Law(100%) |
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