Matthew Woodward

Senior Attorney at Karam Law
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(386) 825-5501
Location
US
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Spanish Full professional proficiency

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Experience

    • United States
    • Law Practice
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Attorney
      • Jul 2014 - Present

      Provide creative, intelligent and comprehensive legal counsel to employers and their employees, advancing their immigration goals and objectives. Coordinate the representation of individual clients with family based immigration needs, enabling families to remain together or reunite. Experienced in all areas of defense in removal proceedings and humanitarian relief. Responsible for the direct management and supervision of paralegal staff, junior attorneys, and law clerks. Provide creative, intelligent and comprehensive legal counsel to employers and their employees, advancing their immigration goals and objectives. Coordinate the representation of individual clients with family based immigration needs, enabling families to remain together or reunite. Experienced in all areas of defense in removal proceedings and humanitarian relief. Responsible for the direct management and supervision of paralegal staff, junior attorneys, and law clerks.

    • United States
    • Legal Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Associate Attorney
      • May 2013 - Jun 2014

      Consult with clients in both English and Spanish regarding their immigration goals and objectives. Develop and implement personalized case plans. Provide legal representation and counsel to clients before the EOIR, USCIS and Department of State.

    • Law Clerk
      • Jun 2011 - May 2013

    • United States
    • Legal Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Law Clerk
      • Jun 2010 - Nov 2010

      Awarded the Mansfield Fellowship. Carefully prepared applications and petitions for submission to the USCIS, including naturalization applications, U petitions, relative petitions and adjustment of status applications. Worked with clients to gather evidence in support of their applications and petitions. Awarded the Mansfield Fellowship. Carefully prepared applications and petitions for submission to the USCIS, including naturalization applications, U petitions, relative petitions and adjustment of status applications. Worked with clients to gather evidence in support of their applications and petitions.

    • United States
    • Law Practice
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Paralegal
      • Sep 2008 - Jul 2009

      Prepared applications and petitions for submission to the USCIS and the Department of State, including but not limited to adjustment of status applications, naturalization applications, relative petitions, VAWA petitions, Refugee/Asylee petitions and visa processing packets. Prepared memoranda and exhibits for inadmissibility waivers. Managed an average workload of over fifty active tasks. Prepared applications and petitions for submission to the USCIS and the Department of State, including but not limited to adjustment of status applications, naturalization applications, relative petitions, VAWA petitions, Refugee/Asylee petitions and visa processing packets. Prepared memoranda and exhibits for inadmissibility waivers. Managed an average workload of over fifty active tasks.

    • United States
    • International Affairs
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Rural Health Volunteer
      • Feb 2006 - Jul 2008

      Developed, designed and executed health related projects in a rural Salvadoran community, including an improved breed chicken raising project, a fuel efficient wood burning stove construction project and a school library project. Managed project budgets, completed monthly reports and presented donors with quarterly status letters. Built a network of aid organizations, government agencies and officials to assist in the completion of projects. Developed, designed and executed health related projects in a rural Salvadoran community, including an improved breed chicken raising project, a fuel efficient wood burning stove construction project and a school library project. Managed project budgets, completed monthly reports and presented donors with quarterly status letters. Built a network of aid organizations, government agencies and officials to assist in the completion of projects.

    • United States
    • Law Practice
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Paralegal
      • Apr 2004 - Jan 2006

Education

  • Hamline University School of Law
    Juris Doctor, Law
    2009 - 2012
  • University of Colorado Boulder
    Bachelor's degree, English Literature
    1999 - 2002

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