In addition, Ms. Edgerton has been selected as a Super Lawyer® in the 2010, 2011 and 2017 editions of North Carolina Super Lawyers®magazine in the area of immigration law. According to the publishers of Super Lawyers (www.superlawyers.com), only 5% of the lawyers per jurisdiction are selected for inclusion on this list each year.
Ms. Edgerton is frequently invited to speak at national and regional immigration conferences on such topics as permanent residence, H-1B and training (H-3/J-1) visas, and employment verification/I-9 issues. She has authored and edited numerous immigration articles in leading publications and has been interviewed extensively in the business and local press on immigration issues. She is a former Chair of the Carolinas Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and, as such, a former member of AILA’s Board of Governors. She is a former member of AILA's Distance Learning Committee and has also previously served as the Vice Chair of the Ethics and Practice Management Committee for AILA National and as the National Chair of AILA's Young Lawyers Division.
Following a federal judicial clerkship, Ms. Edgerton started her career with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, in Winston-Salem. In 1996, she joined Maupin Taylor, PA (now Williams Mullen), in Raleigh, North Carolina, to develop and manage the firm’s immigration practice. Most recently, Ms. Edgerton was a partner at another immigration law firm in Raleigh. Ms. Edgerton is a magna cum laude graduate of North Carolina State University and a cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law.
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State: North Carolina
Acquired: 1995
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State: Georgia
Acquired: 1993
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Posted by del.r | June 16, 2021 | Immigration
worse lawyer and money hungry
hello i was looking for an immigration lawyer for my case and I booked an appointment with her ,she did not like me asking her questions about my case, and honestly, she did not have direct answers, she used Google to search some of my questions answers and when I told her why she did not have answ...
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2017
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2011
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2011
North Carolina Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers Magazine
2011
Best Lawyers in America (Immigration Law), Woodward/White, Inc.
2010
North Carolina Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers Magazine
2010
Best Lawyers in America (immigration law), Woodward/White, Inc.
2010
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2009
Best Lawyers in America (immigration law), Woodward/White, Inc.
2008
Best Lawyers in America (immigration law), Woodward/White, Inc.
2008 - 2010
American Immigration Lawyers AssociationVice Chair, Ethics & Practice Management Committee
2006 - 2008
American Immigration Lawyers AssociationChair, Carolinas Chapter
2004 - 2006
American Immigration Lawyers AssociationVice-Chair
1993
JD - Juris Doctor
1990
Other - Bachelors
2010
Training Visas (H-3 and B-1)
2009
Ethics 101 (for Immigration Lawyers)
2008
J-1 Training & Internship Programs
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