I represent people with fiance visas, green cards, H-1B visas, asylum, naturalization, deportation.
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Personal Injury, Car Accident, Workers' Compensation, Slip & Fall Accident,
301 East Fireweed Lane #101
Anchorage, AK 99503
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Immigration, Constitutional Law, Military, Business & Trade, Civil & Human Rights
4300 B Street suite 207
Anchorage, AK 99503
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Accident & Injury, Personal Injury, Car Accident, Wrongful Death, Slip & Fall Accident
P.O. Box 112141
Anchorage, AK 99511
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Divorce & Family Law, Criminal, Accident & Injury,
800 E Railroad Ave, Suite 300
Wasilla, AK 99654
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Accident & Injury,
263 S. Alaska St.
Palmer, AK 99645
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Accident & Injury, Criminal, Divorce & Family Law, Employment, Real Estate
P.O. Box 2717
Valdez, AK 99686
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Divorce & Family Law,
1530-1188 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V6E 4A2
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Divorce & Family Law,
2100, 1055 West Georgia St
Vancouver, BC V6E 3P3
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Divorce & Family Law, Domestic Violence & Neglect, Civil & Human Rights, Native People, Child Custody
400 - 1401 West Broadway
Vancouver, BC V6H 1H6
Owner
Law Offices of Lea McDermid, LLC
April 2005 – Present
Anchorage, Alaska
Domestic Violence Immigration Attorney
Catholic Social Services
May 2004 – April 2005
Anchorage, Alaska
Attorney
Angela M. Bean + Associates
October 2002 – March 2004
N/A
Law clerk Chief Justice Dana Fabe
Alaska Supreme Court
2001 – 2002
AK
Alaska
2006
California
2002
University of California at Santa Cruz
Bachelor (Psychology)
N/A
Associations
Publications
Deportation is Different: Noncitizens and Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, 89 Cal. L. Rev. 741, 741-45 (May, ). This article argues that it should be considered ineffective assistance of counsel when a criminal defense attorney fails to inform his/her noncitizen client of the immigration consequences of pleading guilty to a crime.
2001
-From Cellblocks to Classrooms California by Kathleen Connolly, Lea McDermid, Vincent Schiraldi, and Dan Macallair (October, ) (published in Crime and Wealth: Readings in the Political Economy of Criminal Justice, ed. John C. Curtin (). This study lead to the conclusion that for African-Americans, prisons are more accessible than public universities and California devotes more resources to incarcerating African-Americans than it does to educating them.
1996 / 1997
Immigration
