Amy T. Lee

Associate.  Amy T. Lee has been practicing immigration law since 1995. She has worked on a broad range of cases, including removal hearings in immigration court, family and employment-based immigration, and naturalization cases. She has successfully represented clients before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and both clients and the U.S. government before the Immigration Court and the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Amy is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). She has been a speaker for the Association for Corporate Counsel (ACC), volunteered her time at the Pittsburgh Public Library for pro bono immigration counseling nights through the Contra Costa County Bar Association and written several articles on employment-based immigration for the Contra Costa Lawyer magazine.

Amy completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at Stanford University in 1992, then went on to earn her juris doctor, with distinction, from University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law in 1995. Amy also holds a Master's in Public Administration from the California State University at Hayward. She is fluent in Cantonese.

Amy was born in San Francisco and traces her roots to Hong Kong and Toishan, China. She grew up in the East Bay and currently lives in Hayward where she is a coach for Special Olympics, is an adoption counselor for German Shepherd Rescue of Northern California and spends free time hiking with her dog and playing competitive badminton.