Elizabeth Matherne
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Top Rated Immigration Attorney in Adel, GA
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Elizabeth Matherne is senior counsel at Kuck | Baxter Immigration Partners LLC. As the name of the firm implies, she focuses her practice exclusively on immigration matters from its offices in Atlanta, Georgia. Representing clients throughout the state, Ms. Matherne has been admitted to practice before all of its state courts since 2010, and she is additionally admitted to practice in Florida and before the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia.
Ms. Matherne has represented people, families and businesses in several types of immigration issues. On the employment side, she has helped to procure visas for business visitors, athletes, entertainers, STEM trainees, foreign nationals in specialty occupations, intracompany transferees, temporary religious workers, and people who are deemed to have extraordinary ability in sciences, the arts, education, business or athletics.
Ms. Matherne handles nonbusiness-related immigration matters as well. Her extensive experience in this regard has included fiancée visas, school-based visas for academic study and training, adjustment of status, DACA cases and deportation defense. Ms. Matherne has also helped clients who want to become citizens navigate their way through what can often be a complex naturalization process. Held in high regard by her colleagues for the overall quality of her work, she has received a “Superb” peer review rating through Avvo along with many other honors and awards.
Ms. Matherne majored in international trade at Georgia Southern University and spent a summer in Spain studying Spanish language and history before receiving a Bachelor of Arts. She subsequently enrolled at St. Thomas University College of Law, and she participated in moot court competitions before graduating with her Juris Doctor in 2007. Ms. Matherne also holds a master’s degree in library and information science from The University of Alabama.
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- Rising Stars: 2018, 2020
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About Elizabeth Matherne
First Admitted: 2008, Florida
Professional Webpage: https://www.immigration.net/our-people/our-people-bios/
Honors/Awards
- , Super Lawyers Rising Star in both 2016 and 2018
Bar/Professional Activity
- Chapter Chair, Georgia-Alabama Chapter
- Alapaha Judicial Circuit Bar Association
- American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia, 2016
- Georgia, 2010
- Florida, 2008
- National AILA Board of Governors, Member
Educational Background
- The University of Alabama, Master in Library and Information Studies, 2017
- B.S. in International Trade with a Minor in Spanish from Georgia Southern University
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Last Updated: 5/15/2022