Ioana Miron, Attorney
Ioana’s passion for immigration law comes from living the immigration experience first-hand. She is a native of Romania who earned her first law degree from the University of Bucharest School of Law in 1997. She practiced law for two years in Romania before immigrating to the United States in 1999. In the United States, Ioana worked first as a paralegal in the area of insurance law, and then went back to school and earned a second J.D. degree from the University of Washington School of Law in 2007. 2007 was also the year when Ioana became a United States Citizen. As someone whose life has been directly affected by U.S. immigration laws, Ioana identifies with her clients and relates to their stories in a very personal way. Ioana’s practice focuses on family-based immigration matters, U.S. citizenship and naturalization issues, and removal defense. Ioana is a member of the Washington State Bar and the American Immigration Law Association. She is fluent in Romanian.

 
 

Phone: 206-919-5197
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Mari Matsumoto, Attorney
Mari Matsumoto has practiced immigration law since 2007.  She joined the Washington Immigration Defense Group in 2014.  She previously worked as the Detention Program Managing Attorney for the Colorado non-profit legal service provider, the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN).  In that capacity, she directed the know-your-rights Legal Orientation Program at the Aurora, Colorado detention facility, provided free legal screenings to detainees, and represented detained individuals before the immigration court.  Her prior positions include associate attorney positions at Lichter Immigration in Denver, Colorado and Gibbs Houston Pauw in Seattle Washington. She speaks Spanish.
 

Phone: 206-335-5567
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Lori Walls, Attorney
Lori completed her B.A. and J.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle. While a law student, she participated in the Immigration Clinic at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and volunteered with the King County Bar Association's Neighborhood Legal Clinic Program. She was an editor and member of the Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal and received the Charles Z. Smith Public Service Student of the Year Award in 2007.  Lori is a member of the Washington State Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association.  Before attending law school, she worked as a technical editor and writer.