Education

University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, 2005, J.D.,
with distinction
University of California at Davis, 1997, B.A., Psychology

Lisa I. Baker, an associate with Weaver, Schlenger & Mazel, has experience in both family and employment-based immigration law, and assists Human Resources professionals and University and Research administrators with a wide range of corporate and institutional-related immigration filings.

Ms. Baker’s areas of expertise include all aspects of adjustment of status, employment-based nonimmigrant visas, and naturalization. She assists corporate clients and individuals with B, E, H, J, L, O and TN visa petitions and PERM labor certifications. Ms. Baker also has experience in asylum, deportation defense and self-petitions for victims of violence.

Ms. Baker was named a Rising Star by the Northern California Super Lawyers in 2009. She has had a professional interest in international law, including human rights, comparative law, consular practice and U.S. immigration, for more than a decade. She has studied comparative European/U.S. law under Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy in Salzburg, Austria, and Chinese/U.S. business law in Suzhou, China. For more details on Lisa Baker's bar admissions, association memberships, presentations and community service, please click here.

Ms. Baker was born in Bahia, Brazil and is proficient in Spanish.