Mr. Sachs is a founding partner of Sachs Law Group LLC in Philadelphia. He is a recognized expert in the intersection of criminal and immigration law, commonly referred to as “crimmigration”. He is frequently sought out for consultation and referrals by criminal defense counsel who represent foreign-born defendants seeking analysis of immigration law consequences. Likewise, he is a sought-after resource for immigration law practitioners seeking to avoid or ameliorate immigration consequences by fashioning plea agreements, advocating for a deportation-safe sentences, and post-conviction litigation. Mr. Sachs has been appointed as expert immigration counsel by the United States District Court under the Criminal Justice Act and has also testified in state court as an expert witness in the area of immigration law. He is frequently called on by his peers to provide instruction at seminars designed to train other lawyers how to effectively represent clients before the criminal and immigration courts, and has been a guest speaker at Bar Associations and law schools throughout Pennsylvania. Mr. Sachs received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and J.D. from SUNY Buffalo Law School before working at the Defender Association of Philadelphia (1983-1991) and has been in private practice since 1992.

Mr. Harley is a partner at Fox Rothschild LLP and has represented individuals and businesses throughout the country in all areas of immigration law for more than a decade. A former Congressional aide whose focus was constituent service, he knows how to work with the U.S. Government to solve complex immigration issues. Prior to joining Fox Rothschild, Mr. Harley was a name partner at a boutique immigration law firm in Pittsburgh. He was also previously a law clerk for the late T. Modibo Ocran, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana and professor of law at the University of Akron, Ohio. Active in community issues, he has trained pro bono lawyers to represent foreign nationals, volunteered to provide pro bono advice as part of the City of Pittsburgh’s Citizenship Day efforts & Served as a juror for high school mock trial competitions. Mr. Harley has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star in immigration law (2012-2013). He received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Geneva College in 2001, and a J.D. from University of Akron School of Law in 2004.

Mr. Lahoud, chair of the firm’s Immigration Law Practice, focuses exclusively on the area of immigration law and deportation defense for individuals, families, small to large domestic and multinational businesses and corporations, employers, international employees, investors, students, professors, researchers, skilled professionals, athletes, and entertainers, in every type of immigration or deportation defense matter—whether domestic or foreign.  His knowledge of EB-5 rules and policies allows him to work closely with real estate developers, brokers, attorneys, regional centers, and foreign investors as well as other experts to assemble an approvable EB-5 project. While Mr. Lahoud’s immigration practice is global in reach, with service to individuals and organizations across the United States and beyond, he is located primarily at the firm’s three globally-linked offices: New York, New York; Bridgewater, New Jersey; and Allentown, Pennsylvania. 

Mr. Grode serves as the Practice Director for Green and Spiegel US LLC in Philadelphia. He has worked continuously in the U.S. business immigration law field since 1999 and has amassed considerable experience obtaining nonimmigrant and immigrant visas for new company start-ups, professional workers, artists and entertainers, athletes, physicians, and scientific researchers. In addition, Mr. Grode has significant experience dealing with Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security enforcement actions as well as with EB-5 Investor filings. He has been a panelist and moderator on immigration law topics for numerous organizations, including the American Bar Association, Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, French Chamber for Commerce and Industry (Paris, France), and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He also writes regularly for industry publications and academic journals. In addition, Mr. Grode is an Adjunct Faculty at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law where he teaches Business Immigration Law, Advising Global Corporations, and Law Practice Management. Notably, Mr. Grode has been listed as one of SuperLawyers Rising Stars from 2012-2016. He has also been honored with the 2014 Pennsylvania Bar Association Special Achievement Award for “Dedication and Commitment to the High School Mock Trial Competition”, for which he has served as Lead Author for the past 10 years. Mr. Grode graduated first in his class from Temple University Beasley School of Law in 2008.

Ms. Martinez founded JBM Legal, LLC, a full-service law firm dedicated to providing legal representation to the Pittsburgh immigrant community . Currently, JBM Legal, LLC has offices in Pittsburgh, PA,  Whittier, CA, and Venice, FL.  Ms. Martinez is a graduate of Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She obtained her Juris Doctorate from the Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law at Arizona State University. Prior to establishing JBM Legal, LLC, Ms. Martinez was in-house counsel to a large International IT company, where she gained extensive experience in employment-based immigration and global immigration. Ms. Martinez’s currently is the managing partner, and her practice focuses on business immigration, family immigration and removal proceedings. JBM Legal, LLC attorneys also provide legal services to the immigrant community in the areas of criminal law, family custody and support law, small business law and litigation-general practice. Ms. Martinez has been asked to present at AILA National Meetings, PBI panels and webinars, Sole and Small Firm Conference, Civil Litigation Conference-PBA, PBA Annual Meeting. Ms. Martinez currently serves/served on various boards: PBA Board of Governors- Secretary of the PBA, Zone 12 Governor, Minority Governor at large, Pennsylvania Industrial Development Board, CASA-Court Appointed Special Advocate Board, ACLU-Pittsburgh Chapter Board, and the ACBA-Allegheny County Bar Association Board. Ms. Martinez, currently serves as the chair of the Pittsburgh Chapter of AILA, and the AILA National Board of Governors 2005-2006, 2022-2023, 2023-2024. Committees: AILA National Membership Committee, Waivers Committee, Hispanic Interest Law Group, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013 AILA National Conference Planning Committee, Current Vice-chair Bylaws-PBA, Vice-chair of Immigration Law Committee-PBA, chair of the Diversity Team-PBA, and chair of the Minority Bar Committee- PBA. Ms. Martinez founded the John Alan Meehan Citizenship Institute under the Allegheny County Bar Foundation, which provides pro bono legal representation to applicants for U.S. Citizenship and sponsors a fellow for summer work in a public-interest entity.

Ms. Etter joined the Pennsylvania Bar Association in 2008 and now serves as the Director of County Bar Services/Education and Special Projects. Prior to joining the PBA, her work focused on programs that improve the lives of students, youth and their families. She continues to work on projects that utilize her training, experience and passion for law, education and public interest. She is a graduate of the Dickinson School of Law and Shippensburg University.

Mr. Read has been the
General Counsel of Justice at Work (Friends of Farmworkers, Inc.) for more
than 39 years and has been practicing labor and employment law in New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania since receiving a J.D. from NYU Law School more
than 45 years ago in 1976. Since 1979, Mr. Read’s practice has almost
entirely focused on the representation of limited English proficient (LEP)
clients in cases before federal and state courts, and before federal and
state administrative agencies, including unemployment compensation claims and
extensive practice before the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board. His
litigation on behalf of LEP clients has been principally on behalf of Spanish
and Haitian Creole speaking clients and has included mass and class action
cases tried before juries. Beginning in 2018, Mr. Read undertook issues of
behalf of a Cameroonian Pidgin English speaking asylum detained asylum
applicant as to rights of Limited English Proficient persons in immigration
proceedings. In 2000, Mr. Read testified before the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Judicial System and
thereafter became a member of the Limited English Proficient Litigants
Workgroup which produced Chapter One “Litigants with Limited English
Proficiency” in the March 2003 Final Report of the Committee. Since 2003, Mr.
Read has helped lead advocacy efforts through the Pennsylvania and
Philadelphia Bar Associations as well as through the Pennsylvania Immigration
and Citizenship Coalition (PICC) for implementation of the Committee’s 2003
recommendations for LEP litigants. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar
Association (PBA) House of Delegates, a former co-chair of the PBA Civil and
Equal Rights Committee, and an active member of several PBA committees. Mr.
Read has been a trainer and course planner for numerous continuing legal
education events including those sponsored by the National Legal Aid and
Defender Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. 

Before she started The Law Office of Rosina C. Stambaugh in York, Ms. Stambaugh was an associate at The Law Office of Christopher A. Ferro, LLC, where she handled the firm’s immigration services and a variety of criminal cases, many of which included complex immigration issues. She focuses her practice on removal defense in the detained and non-detained settings. Ms. Stambaugh has extensive experience with all forms of relief from removal and has successfully litigated cases in different Immigration Courts throughout the U.S., the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She also represents individuals and families applying for affirmative benefits with U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services. The daughter of Italian immigrants, Ms. Stambaugh understands the importance of immigration and its effects on all aspects of a person’s life. Ms. Stambaugh is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (PACDL), the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA), the PBA Immigration Law Committee, the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Unauthorized Practice of Law and Immigration Law Committees and the York County Bar Association (YCBA). Ms. Stambaugh is also a member of the York County Bar Association Board of Directors. Ms. Stambaugh is admitted to practice before the Pennsylvania Superior Court, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Stambaugh was selected as a Rising Star for 2019, 2020 and 2021 by Super Lawyers for immigration law in Pennsylvania. She also was the recipient of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Pro Bono Attorney of the Year in 2017 as well as the York County Bar association Pro Bono Attorney of the Year for 2020. In 2016, she received the Light of Liberty Attorney of the Year by the Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center (PIRC), and she was selected as a Susquehanna Valley’s Select Lawyer for Immigration Law  in York in 2014 and 2015. Ms. Stambaugh received her B.A., Summa Cum Laude, in Political Science from York College of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg, where she received the Nancy & Howard Finkelman Scholarship, awarded to deserving, advanced-standing and extended-division students who have demonstrated scholastic excellence in the area of trial advocacy. While attending Widener, Ms. Stambaugh worked full-time at the Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center (PIRC) as a legal secretary and a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) Accredited Representative. She worked with the detained immigration population at the York County Prison and represented several immigrants going through removal proceedings at the York Immigration Court. Ms. Stambaugh was also a legal volunteer intern at the York Immigration Court, where she provided legal research and writing assistance to the immigration judges. Ms. Stambaugh speaks Spanish, Italian and conversational French.  She lives in York County with her husband and three children.  She and her family enjoy outdoor activities and traveling.

Mr. Griffin is a founding partner of Surin & Griffin, P.C. He specializes in deportation defense and administrative and federal appellate work for non-citizens. In recent years, Mr. Griffin has complemented his practice as an adjunct professor of Human Rights at Drexel University School of Law, an election observer in El Salvador, and as a human rights investigator in Haiti and Mexico. Prior to becoming an immigration lawyer, he was an associate at Choate, Hall & Stewart in Boston, where he practiced white-collar criminal defense and coordinated the firm’s pro bono political asylum program. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Griffin spent 10 years as a Federal Probation and Parole Officer, working in the federal courts in New York City and Massachusetts. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, his M.A. in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City and his A.B. in Sociology and Spanish from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Mr. Griffin is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

David Keller Trevaskis, Esquire, is an attorney and former third grade teacher with a master’s degree in Education. Trevaskis is the Pro Bono Coordinator for Legal Services for the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA), responsible for helping local bar associations, legal aid programs and other groups who offer legal services across the Commonwealth improve the access to justice for the neediest among us. He also promotes civic education through such organizations as the PBA, the Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies (PCSS) and Law, Education and PEACE for Kids (LEAP-Kids). Trevaskis’ work in poverty law is extensive as the PBA’s Pro Bono Office processes nearly 6000 requests for help each year through the PBA Legal Services to the Public Committee and helps organize and run clinics on a variety of subjects from expungements to elder law issues. The PBA Pro Bono Office will be posting matters for attorneys to consider on PA Pro Bono Matters starting in 2024. He is pushing hard to have every lawyer in Pennsylvania share palawhelp.org with clients and register themselves for palwhelp.org and Pennsylvania Free Legal Answers. Trevaskis staffs the PBA’s Immigration Law Committee and supports the Wills for Heroes Program of the PBA’s Young Lawyer Division which has provided first responders, essential personnel from the pandemic and veterans with wills and other estate planning documents at no cost. Trevaskis is proud of his work supporting veterans and active-duty personnel with civil legal aid through the PBA’s Military and Veterans Affairs Committee. He delights in celebrating that his namesake, nephew David Trevaskis, serves as a Staff Sergeant in the United States Army. Married to a retired trial attorney, with a son, daughter and two grandsons, Trevaskis is committed to making the world a better place!

Judge Fisher was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate in December 2003. Prior to becoming a judge, he served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania having been elected in 1996 and re-elected in 2000. Judge Fisher argued major cases in state and federal appellate courts and in March 1998, he successfully argued before the United States Supreme Court a precedent-setting case ensuring that paroled criminals meet the conditions of their release. Before his election as Attorney General, Judge Fisher was in the Pennsylvania General Assembly, serving six years in the State House and 16 years in the State Senate. He began his legal career as an Assistant DA in Pittsburgh following his graduation from Georgetown University and its Law Center where he was honored in 2023 as the recipient of The William Gaston Award for service and leadership. He continued to practice law during his career in the General Assembly and was a shareholder or partner in various firms, including Houston Harbaugh. Judge Fisher chaired the Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction of the U.S. Judicial Conference and chairs the PA Bar Association’s Federal Practice Committee. In 2017 Judge Fisher assumed Senior Status on the 3rd Circuit and was named as the Initial Distinguished Jurist in Residence at Pitt Law where he continues to teach Federal Appellate Advocacy and Federal Courts.