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Since 2001, Lopez Law Group, LLC (formerly known as Lopez Law Office), has provided outstanding legal representation to clients from all over the world. Our firm’s founder and principal attorney, Glorily A. Lopez, is nationally recognized in the field of immigration law and advocacy. Our firm has successfully represented hundreds of individuals and companies in diverse areas of immigration law such as family-based petitions, waivers, nonimmigrant visas, labor certifications, citizenship, removal defense, and asylum.

Unlike many other firms that specialize in only one aspect of immigration law, Lopez Law Group, LLC is unique because we have developed equal expertise in representing individuals and employers in connection with a range of matters. In addition, the attorney and paralegals at Lopez Law Group are fluent in English and Spanish.

As a member of the American Immigration Lawyers’ Association (AILA), we have up-to-minute access to changes in immigration legislation, policy, and regulations. This allows our firm to offer outstanding counsel to clients with a broad range of immigration concerns.


Attorney Glorily A. Lopez
 
 
 

Immigration Attorney Glorily A. Lopez

Email:  gal@lopezlawgroup.com

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Attorney Glorily A. Lopez exclusively practices U.S. Immigration and Nationality Law. Her experience in this field includes extensive work with family, employment-based, and individual-based immigrant petitions, consular processing, and removal/deportation defense.

Ms. Lopez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is fluent in Spanish and English, and provides bilingual representation to a diverse group of individuals, families, and employers.

Distinctions    More Info

  • Named in the prestigious Best Lawyers in America in the specialization of Immigration Law in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.
  • Selected by her peers for inclusion in the Top Lawyers list as published in Madison Magazine for three consecutive terms, 2003, 2005 and 2007.
  • Named in the Wisconsin Super Lawyers & Rising Stars as published by Law & Politics and Milwaukee Magazine in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

Professional Activities

  • Board of Governors, American Immigration Lawyers Association (2009 to present)
  • Chair of the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (2009 to Present)
  • Vice Chair of Wisconsin Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (2007 to 2009)
  • Treasurer of the Wisconsin Chapter American Immigration Lawyers Association (2005 to 2007)
  • National Day of Action Coordinator, American Immigration Lawyers Association (2007 to 2009)
  • National Day of Action Congressional Liaison, American Immigration Lawyers Association (2004 to Present)
  • National Mentor, American Immigration Lawyers Association (2004 to Present)
  • Wisconsin Hispanic Lawyers Association (WHLA)’s Board of Governors (2005 to 2007)

Key Memberships

  • Member in Good Standing, State Bar of Wisconsin as required by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin
  • Member in Good Standing of the American Immigration Lawyers Association
  • Member of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild

Community Involvement

  • Member of the Centro Hispano of Dane County's Board of Directors where she served as Vice President and Secretary of the Board (2001 to 2005)
  • Volunteer at the Centro Guadalupe Multicultural Center (2003-2004)

Education

  • Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Paralegals


Emily Gorces
 
 
 

Emily Gorces

Email:  emily.gorces@lopezlawgroup.com

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Emily Gorces is an Immigration Paralegal. Her work focuses on immigrant and nonimmigrant cases with family-based, employment, student reinstatement applications and complex waiver cases. Ms. Gorces graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she double-majored in Spanish and International Studies with a concentration in Latin American Studies. Ms. Gorces also spent a semester abroad studying International Relations and Spanish at La Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Prior to joining Lopez Law Group, LLC, Ms. Gorces worked as a District Office Manager and Bilingual Customer Service Representative for Farmers Insurance in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is fluent in Spanish.

Holly Storck-Post
 
 
 

Holly Storck-Post

Email:  holly.storck-post@lopezlawgroup.com

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Holly Storck-Post is an Immigration Paralegal whose work primarily includes family-based petitions, permanent residence, consular processing, waivers, VAWA self-petitions, U petitions, asylum and naturalization. Ms. Storck-Post is an Earlham College graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish and Hispanic Studies. She graduated with both college and departmental honors and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. She was also the recipient of the Arthur M. Charles Service Award for her work teaching Spanish grammar classes.

Ms. Storck-Post has volunteered teaching English to refugees through Sponsors Organized to Assist Refugees in the State of Oregon. Prior to her employment with Lopez Law Group, she worked at Casa de los Amigos, A.C. in Mexico City, providing assistance to refugees and asylum seekers. She is fluent in Spanish.

Hillary Mellinger
 
 
 

Hillary Mellinger

Email:  hillary.mellinger@lopezlawgroup.com

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Hillary Mellinger is an Immigration Paralegal whose work primarily includes family-based petitions, permanent residence, consular processing, waivers, VAWA self-petitions, U petitions, asylum and naturalization. Ms. Mellinger is a Beloit College graduate with a Bachelor of Arts and Departmental Honors in both International Relations and Modern Languages with minors in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Asian Studies. She graduated magna cum laude and made the Dean’s List every semester.

Ms. Mellinger was the recipient of the Lucius Porter Award for Asian Studies at Beloit College. While at Beloit, Ms. Mellinger studied abroad in Kolkata, India, and was one of two nationally chosen students to be recipients of a grant from the Global Studies Foundation. Prior to joining Lopez Law Group, Ms. Mellinger was a research assistant for the Departments of Modern Languages at Beloit College and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ms. Mellinger has volunteered at Beloit Stateline Literacy Council as a citizenship instructor, as a bilingual teacher at Rockford Dance Company, and has built houses with Proyecto Abrigo in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. She is fluent in Spanish and conversant in Arabic and Russian.


Law Clerks


Maryam Ghayyad
 
 
 

Maryam Ghayyad

Email:  maryam.ghayyad@lopezlawgroup.com

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Maryam Ghayyad is an Immigration Law Clerk whose work primarily includes family-based petitions and employment-based applications. Ms. Ghayyad is a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate with Bachelor of Arts in Journalism. She graduated summa cum laude and made the Dean’s List every semester of her undergraduate studies. She was also the recipient of the Wisconsin Alumni Association Outstanding Student Award and Imogene Hand Carpenter Scholarship. She is currently a second year law student at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Before her employment with Lopez Law Group, she worked as academic lead for the Madison PEOPLE Program and as a contributing writer for The Madison Times newspaper. She is fluent in Spanish.

Alicia Armstrong
 
 
 

Alicia Armstrong

Email:  alicia.armstrong@lopezlawgroup.com

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Alicia Armstrong is an Immigration Law Clerk, whose experience and expertise cover a wide array of employment-based, individual, and family-based immigration cases, including but not limited to immigrant and nonimmigrant consular processing, adjustment of status, labor certifications and naturalization. Ms. Armstrong is also knowledgeable with matters of humanitarian relief such as asylum, temporary protected status, domestic violence petitions, hardship waiver applications, and removal defense. She is a graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a B.A. in Spanish Literature. She also studied Spanish Philology at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain. Ms. Armstrong is a third year law student at the CUNY School of Law in New York. She is fluent in Spanish.