Time to Meet & Confer! It’s a Heckuva Time to Be an Immigration Attorney in Our Border City
In this episode of Meet and Confer, SDCBA member-hosts, James “Jim” Crosby and Renee Stackhouse sit down with local immigration attorneys Teodora Purcell and Jesse Imbriano.
Jesse Imbriano is the supervising attorney at Casa Cornelia Law Center, a pro bono law firm in San Diego. Casa Cornelia Law Center provides direct representation in humanitarian immigration applications, including asylum and related relief and protection, special immigrant juvenile status, U and T visas, and VAWA self-petitions and cancellation of removal. Mr. Imbriano directly supervises the legal work of the law firm—including a robust team of staff attorneys and hundreds of volunteer attorneys from the private bar—while maintaining an active case load. He is regularly invited to speak and provide trainings within this practice area to immigration practitioners and other attorneys, social service providers interacting with members of the immigrant community, law enforcement agencies, and the local judiciary. Immediately prior to joining Casa Cornelia Law Center, he served as an attorney advisor with the Executive Office for Immigration Review. Mr. Imbriano is a graduate of the Villanova University School of Law.
Teodora D. Purcell practices in the area of immigration law. She has extensive experience in all facets of U.S. immigration law with focus on business immigration. Ms. Purcell advises corporate and individual clients on a variety of employment and family-based nonimmigrant and immigrant petitions, I-9 compliance, applications for U.S. citizenship and other immigration benefits. Ms. Purcell is certified in Immigration and Nationality Law by the California State Bar, Board of Legal Specialization. She is a frequently invited speaker on business immigration topics and teaches an Immigration Law class at the UCSD ABA approved paralegal program and a member of the SDCBA Board. Ms. Purcell is a 2001 graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law and a graduate of Sofia University, St. Clement Ohridski School of Law. She is fluent in Bulgarian and conversant in Russian and Spanish.
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SDCBA’s “Meet & Confer” is a podcast hosted by SDCBA Members, Renee Stackhouse and Jim Crosby. It’s a podcast for and about our unique San Diego legal community. Let us know what you’d like to hear about on future episodes by sending an email to bar@sdcba.org.