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Sophie Feal has been with the Immigration Project of the Erie County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project (VLP), Inc. since it was created in 1999, except for three years in private practice. Currently at VLP, she is the Supervising Immigration Attorney.
In September 2007, Ms. Feal was elected by her peers in Western New York’s legal community to the Buffalo Law Journal's annual Who's Who in Law and in May 2008, she received the John R. Long Award from VIVE/La Casa, for her work with immigrants and refugees. In addition, she has authored many articles on immigration law, and updated chapters on asylum and removal for Matthew Bender's Lexis/Nexis legal treatise, Immigration Law and Procedure: Desk Edition. From 2002 to 2005, she served as the Chair of the Immigration Committee of the Erie County Bar Association, and has been a member of the Bar Association's Human Rights Committee since 2000. She is also a member of the National Immigration Project.
She received her J.D. in 1988 from the University of Buffalo Law School. Herself an immigrant, she was raised speaking French and Spanish.
(716) 847-0662 Ext. 314
sfeal@wnylc.com
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