Ms Suzan Kern > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile

Ms Suzan Kern

202.419.2075 skern@huntonak.com View profile

Work Department

Financial Services, Telecommunications, Labor and Employment, Immigration, EB-5 Immigrant Investor, Latin America

Position

Counsel

Career

Ms. Kern represents businesses and individuals in administrative immigration proceedings before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Labor, and U.S. Department of State.  She helps creative, banking, manufacturing, biotech, and other companies to obtain E, H-1B, H-3, L-1, O-1, and P visas and green cards for key employees and to manage their sponsorship and I-9 compliance programs.  She also devotes more than 100 hours annually to immigration pro bono work through direct client representation and mentoring other attorneys.  She coordinates the Washington office’s signature pro bono project at the Montgomery County Family Justice Center in Rockville, Maryland, which helps victims of domestic violence obtain immigration relief.  Ms. Kern is a contributing author to the Hunton Andrews Kurth Immigration Law Blog.

Languages

Spanish

Memberships

Admitted to District of Columbia and Texas Bars

Education

• JD, The University of Texas School of Law, honors; Dean’s Achievement Award, Mexican Law; Best Memo, Legal Writing, 2002
• BA, Spanish/Translation & Interpretation, The University of Texas at El Paso, highest honors, 1987