Lauren E. McClure
Lauren E. McClure
Biography
Lauren McClure is a Partner with Kriezelman Burton & Associates, LLC. She is admitted to practice law in the state of Illinois. She focuses her practice exclusively on the areas of immigration law, including family-based immigration, asylum, removal defense, employment-based immigration and federal court litigation. Lauren is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for Seventh Circuit.
She is presently a member of the Federal Bar Association, Immigration Law Section’s Board. She is also an active committee member of the Younger Lawyer’s Division for the Immigration Law Section. She is a member of the ICE OCC Liaison Committee and co-chair of the Advocacy Committee for the AILA Chicago Chapter. She previously served as the Secretary of State Liaison Committee chair and the New Members Division chair, each for two years. She was also previously co-chair of the Fall Conference Planning Committee for two years. She also previously served as chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Immigration & Nationality Law Committee from 2014-2015.
Speaking Engagements
- Consular Processing Strategies: Pitfalls and Solutions in Consular Practice (January 2017)Â Speaker, Chicago Bar Association, Chicago, Illinois.
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Federal Bar Association, Immigration Law Section, Annual Conference 2018, Moderator, “Determining Appropriate Relief, SIJ, VAWA, Asylum U-Visas, T-Visas,” Memphis, Tennessee
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Federal Bar Association, Immigration Law Section, Annual Conference 2018, Speaker, “Hot Topics: Representing Survivors in the New Environment- Safety Planning and New Tools to Avoid Removal,” Memphis, Tennessee
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DePaul University, Advanced Naturalization seminar, October 2018, Speaker, “Build your Record- Looking toward District Court,” Chicago, Illinois
- Immigration Litigation in the Federal District Courts, Panelist/Speaker (May 2019), 2019 Immigration Law Conference, Federal Bar Association, Austin, Texas
- Creative Ways to get Us and VAWAs into the United States, Panelist/Speaker (May 2019), 2019 Immigration Law Conference, Federal Bar Association, Austin, Texas
- Creative Ways to get Us and VAWAs into the United States, Webinar Panelist for Federal Bar Association, Immigration Law Section’s Younger Lawyers Division, May 2019
- Litigating USCIS and Department of State Delays (May 2024), Speaker, Federal Bar Association ILS Conference
- Litigation as a Last Resort (May 2023), Speaker, Federal Bar Association ILS Conference
Awards
- Super Lawyers-Rising Stars 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Younger Lawyer of the Year 2019 – Federal Bar Association, Immigration Law Section
Bar Admissions
- State of Illinois
- Northern District of Illinois
- Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
- Eastern District of Wisconsin
- Northern District of Indiana
- Southern District of Indiana
- Central District of Illinois
- Western District of Michigan
Professional Associations
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
- American Bar Association
- Chicago Bar Association
- Illinois State Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association
Publications
- The Doctrine of Consular Non-Reviewability: Why It Still Matters, The Green Card, published by the Immigration Law Section of the Federal Bar Association, Fall 2016
Education
- J.D., Loyola University Chicago School of Law, magna cum laude
- B.A., DePaul University, magna cum laude
Successful Cases
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