Admitted: 1995, California
Law School: Loyola Law School, J.D.
Member: Los Angeles County, American, Mexican American (Board Member; Chair, Immigration and Committee Against the Unauthorized Practice of Law; President, 2005) and Hispanic National (Member, Immigration Committee) Bar Associations; State Bar of California; American Immigration Lawyers Association (Member, National Committee Against Unauthorized Practice of Law).
Biography: Recipient, Attorney of the Year, Mexican American Bar Association's, 2003. Law Clerk to: Attorney General's Office, California Department of Justice; Los Angeles City Attorney's Office; Central District, California Superior Court. Visiting Lecturer: Loyola Law School; University of California Los Angeles Law School. Seminar Speaker: Legal Secretaries Inc., March 31, 2007; Congress of Peruvian Consultants, April 14, 2007. Volunteer Guest Speaker, Los Angeles Unified School District. Speaker: Continuing Legal Education, Los Angeles County Bar Association; American Immigration Lawyers Association; Mexican American Bar Association; Orange County Hispanic Bar Association; National Lawyer's Guild. President, Citizens Against the Unauthorized Practice of Law (CAUPL).
Languages: Spanish
Cases: Galeana-Mendoza v. Gonzales,465 F.3d 1054 (9th Cir. 2006).