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Overview

Overview

Ilene Zaitouna is an attorney in our Immigration practice group, serving a wide range of clients with complex immigration matters. She concentrates her practice on individuals and businesses in the preparation and filing of non-immigrant and immigrant visa petitions for individuals with extraordinary ability, multinational managers and executives, and preference petitions for professionals.

In her pro bono practice, Ilene has served as a legal volunteer for the CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project, as well as a legal intern at Human Rights First, Forbes Media LLC, and Gell & Gell of New York City. Ilene is a former judicial intern to Justice David F. Viviano of the Macomb County Circuit Court.

Education & Admissions

Education & Admissions

Education

  • Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York
    J.D.
    Dean’s Merit Scholarship recipient
    Participated in the Paulson Moot Court Competition, Business Law Society, Heyman, In-house Counsel Program, Immigration Law Field Clinic, and the Immigration Advocacy Clinic
  • James Madison College at Michigan State University
    Bachelor’s degree in political theory and constitutional democracy

Bar Admissions

  • Michigan
  • New York

Affiliations

Affiliations

  • State Bar of Michigan

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