J.J. Shepherd Joins Los Angeles Office

Joseph Shepherd is a recent graduate of Brooklyn Law School (J.D., 2009). He joins the firm as a Law Clerk in our new Los Angeles Office. Mr. Shepherd is a former intern of Immigration Equality, a national non-profit organization dedicated to ending discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and HIV positive individuals in U.S. immigration law that was founded in 1993 by Noemi Masliah and Lavi Soloway. While at Immigration Equality, he assisted in client representation and conducted research for the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s publication, "Immigration Law and the Transgender Client." While working as a student intern at Brooklyn Law School’s Safe Harbor Clinic he participated in the preparation of a successful case brought by a Jamaican asylum applicant. Most recently, Mr. Shepherd interned with the United States Attorney’s Office focusing primarily on immigration litigation in the Eastern District of New York. In July Mr. Shepherd sat for the California Bar Exam.