Lisa Nicole Ellis
We Know How to Navigate Cases
Lisa Ellis brings value to clients by providing individualized service and twenty years of experience to help clients achieve their goals. She handles a diverse practice of probate, elder law, immigration and estate planning.
She provides a personal touch to each of her client's cases.
She handles post-death administration and fiduciary advocacy and advising in her probate practice. Her immigration practice emphasizes business, family, naturalization and global migration work including H-1B, L-1, PERM, Students/Schools, I-9 Compliance and petitions for family members, and religious workers. Lisa also assists families and individuals with estate planning and long-term planning for health care and financial needs for elders or the disabled.
Lisa speaks regularly on immigration topics nationally and regionally. She was the immigration attorney of a full-service law firm in Seattle for nearly nine years prior to founding Ellis Law, LLC. Lisa has been selected as a Rising Star by Washington Super Lawyers and is a former chair of the Board of Publications for the National American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).
After graduating from the University of Oregon School of Law, Lisa was an Attorney Advisor for seven immigration judges at the Executive Office for Immigration Review, a position she entered through the U.S. Attorney General's Honors Program. Prior to entering private practice, she also was a law clerk for the Honorable Robert H. Whaley at the U.S. District Court of Eastern Washington and a Trial Attorney for the U.S. Federal Defender's Office of Eastern Washington and Idaho where she handled a wide-range of immigration matters. A native of the Seattle area, Lisa lived in Australia and has traveled to 25 countries. Lisa's practice philosophy is to achieve the best possible client results through collaboration and cooperation with her clients.
- Immigration Law
- Citizenship, Family Visas, Green Cards, Immigration Appeals, Student Visas, Visitor Visas, Work Visas
- Estate Planning
- Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Elder Law
- Probate
- Probate Administration
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- Washington
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- 9th Circuit
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- Founder and Principal
- Ellis Law, LLC
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- Associate Attorney
- Ellis Li & McKinstry PLLC
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- Trial Attorney
- Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington and Idaho
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- Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert H. Whaley
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington
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- Session Counsel to Judiciary Committee
- Washington State Senate Committee Services
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- Attorney Advisor (entered through U.S. Attorney General's Honor Program)
- Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR)
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- University of Oregon School of Law
- J.D. (2000) | Law
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- Honors: Executive Editor of The Oregon Law Review
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- Whitman College
- B.A. (1993) | History
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- Activities: Swim Team. Awarded All-American at NAIA Swimming Nationals in 1989. Kappa Alpha Theta
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- Top 21 Probate Attorneys in Seattle
- Expertise.com
- Top 18 Immigration Lawyers in Seattle
- Expertise.com
- 10.0 Superb
- Avvo
- Rising Star
- Washington Super Lawyers
- King County Bar Association
- Member
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- Washington Association of Elder Law Attorneys
- Member
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- National Academy of Elder Lawyers
- Member
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- American Immigration Lawyer's Association - National
- Board of Publications Chair; Conference Speaker; Annual Conference Program Committee; Distance Learning Committee; Contributing Author
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- American Immigration Lawyer's Association - Washington Chapter
- Executive Committee; CBP Liaison Committee Chair; Consular Liaison Chair, Vice Chair of CLE Committee
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- Washington State Bar # 30693
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- Inside the Minds: New Developments in Immigration Enforcement and Compliance
- Thomson Reuters/Aspatore
- Navigating the Fundamentals of Immigration Law
- American Immigration Lawyer's Asociation
- Author of Visa Solutions for Students, Scholars and Sponsors: What You Need to Know (Book)
- Thomson Reuters/Aspatore
- The Visa Processing Guide and Consular Posts Handbook, 2007 - 2010 eds.
- American Immigration Lawyer's Asociation
- Keynote Speaker, Association of Washington International Student Affairs Conference, Des Moines, WA
- Association of Washington International Student Affairs (AWISA)
- Special Occupation Issues: Religious Workers & Health Care Professionals, NW Regional Immigration Law Conference
- American Immigration Lawyer's Association (AILA)
- NIV's: Part I, AILA Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA
- American Immigration Lawyer's Association (AILA)
- Making Lemonade Out of Lemons - Utilizing the Trainee Visas, AILA National Teleconference, virtual
- American Immigration Lawyer's Association (AILA)
- The ABC's of Immigration Law, Edmonds Community College Class Speaker, Lynnwood, WA
- Edmonds Community College
- Website
- Ellis Law, LLC
