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SDP&A cares about our clients, community and the public during this unprecedented time of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are offering complimentary consultations with our experienced attorneys via phone, Skype, FaceTime and Zoom to anyone – individuals, businesses and organizations – with a situation and/or questions related to immigration and nationality law. We can advise or offer second opinions on family-based and employment based immigration options, employer compliance, maintenance of non-immigrant status and employment authorization, political asylum, removal defense, remedies through federal court litigation or other U.S. immigration matters. Please contact us 24/7 at (312) 444-1940 or consult@lawfirm1.com.

Senior Attorney

Kathryn R. Weber

Ms. Weber has over 14 years of experience practicing immigration law and joined Scott D. Pollock & Associates, P.C. in 2004. She is also is a former Chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Chicago Chapter.

She holds a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School where she graduated cum laude and was a student supervisor of the school’s immigration clinic. During law school, she interned at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, Switzerland on an Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship.

kw@lawfirm1.com

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More About Kathryn

She has been a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) since 2004 and has served on and chaired numerous national and Chicago Chapter committees, including the AILA National Refugee and Asylum Committee, AILA National International Operations Committee, AILA National EOIR Liaison Committee and the Chicago Chapter Asylum Liaison Committee and Chicago Chapter CBP Liaison Committee. In 2010, she was elected to the Executive Board of the AILA Chicago Chapter for a six-year term.

She was selected as an Emerging Lawyer by the Leading Lawyers division of the Law Bulletin Publishing Company for 2015, 2016 and 2017. Emerging Lawyers represent only two percent of all licensed lawyers in the State of Illinois who are 40 years old or younger or have been practicing law for 10 or fewer years. She was also selected for inclusion in Illinois Super Lawyers – Rising Star Editions 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. She is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and has performed in the Chicago Bar Association’s annual bar shows between 2010 and 2017.Ms. Weber is fluent in French and competent in Spanish.

Professional Associations & Memberships

American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2004-present.
- National EOIR Liaison Committee, 2017-Present.
- National USCIS International Operations Committee, 2010-2013; Chair, 2010- 2012.
- National Refugee & Asylum Committee, 2010-2012.
- National Refugee, Asylum, and International Operations Liaison Committee, 2008-2010.
- Chicago Chapter, Executive Board, Immediate Past Chair and Advisor, 2015-2016.
- Chicago Chapter, Executive Board, Chair, 2014-2015.
- Chicago Chapter, Executive Board, Vice Chair, 2013-2014.
- Chicago Chapter, Executive Board, Second Vice Chair, 2012-2013.
- Chicago Chapter, Executive Board, Treasurer, 2011-2012.
- Chicago Chapter, Executive Board, Secretary, 2010-2011.
- Chicago Chapter, CBP Liaison Committee, Chair, 2017-Present.
- Chicago Chapter Asylum Liaison Committee, 2007-2010; Co-Chair, 2008-2010.
- Chicago Chapter Midwest Regional Conference Planning Committee, 2008-2009, 2018-Present.
- Chicago Chapter Continuing Legal Education Committee Co-Chair, 2007-2008.
- Chicago Chapter Young Lawyers’ Division Committee Co-Chair, 2006-2007.
Chicago Bar Association, 2004-present.
- Cast member in CBA’s 2017 Bar Show production, “Much to Sue About Nothing”
- Cast member of CBA’s 2016 Bar Show production, “This Case is a Shamilton!”
- Cast member in CBA’s 2015 Bar Show production, “A Christmas Quarrel – A Tale of Two Parties”
- Cast member in CBA’s 2013 Bar Show production, “The Merry Old Land of Lawz”
- Cast member in CBA’s 2012 Christmas Spirits production, “Lawpocalypse Now”
- Cast member in CBA’s 2011 Christmas Spirits production, “LawLawPalooza”
- Cast member in CBA’s 2010 Christmas Spirits production, “Plea!”
Illinois State Bar Association, 2004-2011.

Recognition

Selected as an Emerging Lawyer by the Leading Lawyers division of the Law Bulletin Publishing Company for 2015, 2016 and 2017. Emerging Lawyers represent only two percent of all licensed lawyers in the State of Illinois who are 40 years old or younger or have been practicing law for 10 or fewer years.
Award of Recognition for outstanding and dedicated service to the Chicago Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association for work as the Chapter’s Chair, June 2015.
Award of Recognition for outstanding and dedicated service to the Chicago Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association for work as the Chapter’s Vice Chair, June 2014.
Award of Recognition for outstanding and dedicated service to the Chicago Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association for work as the Chapter’s Second Vice Chair, June 2013.
Award of Recognition for outstanding and dedicated service to the Chicago Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association for work as the Chapter’s Treasurer, June 2012.
Award of Recognition for outstanding and dedicated service to the Chicago Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association for work as the Chapter’s Secretary, June 2011.
Selected for inclusion in Illinois Super Lawyers–Rising Stars Editions 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Award of Recognition for outstanding commitment and service to the Chicago Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association for work as the Chapter’s Young Lawyers’ Division Committee Co-Chair, 2007.