Description:
Diener Law is hiring a licensed attorney with at least four years of immigration practice and substantial immigration court experience. This ad tells you exactly what the job is. If the facts fit what you're looking for, we'd like to talk.What Makes This Job Different
You will do only attorney-level work. A dedicated, full-time support team handles the administrative process. Your work is what requires your license: representation, strategy, final reviews and appearances.
The attorney receives a substantially prepared file and is responsible for confirming factual and legal accuracy, identifying issues, providing strategic direction, strengthening legal arguments, making substantive revisions, conducting the final review, and representing the client before USCIS or the Immigration Court.
- Spanish is not required. Our bilingual support staff manages client communication; interpretation is provided for hearings and client meetings.
- Federal court admission is not required. Where our federal work requires an admitted attorney, the firm arranges sponsorship as permitted by rules.
- Represent clients in removal and asylum proceedings before immigration courts nationwide — primarily by video, with occasional in-person appearances as required by the court.
- Represent detained clients, including virtual facility visits.
- Typical caseload and hearing volume: workload varies depending on hearing schedules, with some weeks being heavier than others. USCIS work is generally manageable and balanced alongside court responsibilities.
- Familiarity with family-based and humanitarian immigration matters before USCIS including but not limited to I-130, AOS, N-400, N-600, VAWA, U-visa, I-601/I-601A waivers, affirmative asylum and consular processing
- Contribute to our federal practice: we have begun bringing habeas petitions in federal district court — with early success — and we are candid that this practice is young. We are building the expertise deliberately, and an attorney with federal experience or ambition can help shape it.
- Preference will be given to candidates whose 4+ years of experience are primarily in immigration law.
- Substantial EOIR experience handling a broad range of removal-defense matters, including master and merit hearings. Candidates must be comfortable litigating asylum and withholding claims, cancellation of removal, in-court AOS, waivers, motions to reopen or terminate, and other contested immigration court matters.
- Detained-docket experience preferred.
- Bar admission requirements: J.D. from an accredited law school; active bar membership in good standing
- Comfort working with, directing, and quality-controlling a remote support team - you review and sign the work you supervise, so high standards and clear delegation both matter.
- Commitment to the clients. In the current enforcement climate this work is demanding and it matters; we are looking for attorneys who want to be in it.
