WELCOME 
Kennedy Law Firm stands out by way of strategic skill,
experience, personal approach, and integrity in handling
each individual client.
Kennedy Law Firm assists clients by using creativity
strategic case analysis to identify the best practical
course of action to achieve our client's objectives.
KLF takes pride in consistently advising clients about both
current and future obligations and options.
We find
that informed clients are satisfied clients
and will stand
beside our clients now and in the future.
Dedicated to
providing excellent legal representation
in a courteous, cost-effective, and ethical manner,
Kennedy Law Firm
believes that personal management and availability to each
client leads to successful representation and a healthy
attorney-client relationship. KLF
is committed to building long standing business relationships
with each of our clients. KLF does so
by offering
complete accessibility, high ethical standards,
experience, enthusiasm, and perhaps one of the best values
for the legal fees you pay.
Not only do we strive to provide our clients
with the best legal service possible, but we
also work to interact with other members of the
community, legal and otherwise, in a friendly,
ethical manner.
Kennedy Law Firm offers
experience in:
Family-based Immigrant
Visas;
Nonimmigrant Temporary
Visas;
Consular Processing;
Adoptions;
Naturalization;
Citizenship;
Waivers of
Inadmissibility;
Special Immigrant
self-petitions, including juveniles;
Removal / Deportation
Defense;
Appeals;
Motions to Reopen /
Motions to Reconsider;
Post-Conviction Relief;
Pre-sentencing counsel
on avoiding immigration consequences of
criminal convictions;
Trusts & Estates; and,
General Practice
including Wills, Trusts, Family Law;
Contracts, Landlord-Tenant, and Traffic.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Kennedy Law Firm has
adjusted many respondents in removal proceedings to legal permanent
residency. Appellate experience includes appeals to the Board
of Immigration Appeals as well as mandamus and declaratory relief in
the U.S. District Courts.
 Example
achievements include:
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Obtaining
EB-1 permanent residency for an Israeli opera singer;
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Successfully constructing and
presenting an argument in federal court to allow successive
writs of habeas corpus, which allowed KLF to secure the release
of immigration detainees subject to indefinite detention;
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Obtaining
post-conviction relief in the State of Maryland for defendants
who completed their sentence as well as those still subject to
punishment;
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Obtaining a marital
annulment, which is rarely granted in Maryland; and,
- Successfully
forcing the Oklahoma County Detention center to honor a
detainee's constitutional right to marry.
ATTORNEY PROFILE
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Practice Areas:
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Family Law; Wills
& Trusts; Landlord-Tenant Law;
Immigration Law; Post-Conviction Relief;
Pre-Sentencing Counsel on
Avoiding Immigration Consequences of
Criminal Convictions.
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Admitted:
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Maryland; United States District Court
for Maryland; United States District
Court for the Western District of
Oklahoma.
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Biography:
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Experienced
before the Executive Office of
Immigration Review (Immigration
Court), Board of Immigration Appeals,
and Federal Court; Editor, Maryland
State Bar Association Immigration
Committee's Newsletter; Former legal
counsel for the Middle Eastern American
Association Immigration Service.
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Member:
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Baltimore County and Maryland State Bar
Associations; Hispanic Bar Association;
American Immigration Lawyers
Association.
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Law School:
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University of
Oklahoma School of Law, J.D., 2000.
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College:
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University of
Oklahoma, Russian Area Studies & Minor
in Economics,
B.A., 1994;
French Civilization and Literature,
B.A., 1994.
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Languages:
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French,
Russian.
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Experience
Abroad:
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Youth For
Understanding Travel/Study across former
Soviet Union,1987; Université de
Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1990-91;
Center for AIDS Prevention, Alma-Ty
Kazakhstan, 1993-94; Jagellonian
Universitet, International Trade Law,
Krakow, Poland 1997.
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Copyright 2001-2009.
Kennedy Law Firm.
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