Our Team
Gali Schaham Gordon
personally guides her clients through the nuances and complexities of immigration law. She counsels employers as well as professionals, entrepreneurs, students, scientists, artists, and families. She is a regularly invited speaker on immigration issues both nationally and locally, and has served as an expert witness on immigration matters. In 2009, Gali was named a ‘Rising Star’ by Super Lawyers magazine, an honor awarded to the top 2.5 percent of immigration lawyers in Northern California under age 40.
Gali graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley and received her law degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She spent the first several years of her career at the law firms of Morrison and Foerster LLP and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC, where she represented venture-financed start-up companies, venture capital funds, and Fortune 500 companies, as well as refugees and asylees pro bono. An immigrant herself, Gali has lived and traveled abroad extensively, and enjoys working with people of different cultures. She speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Japanese and French.
*2009 ‘Rising Star’ List, Super Lawyers magazine
*2008 AILA Pro Bono Benefactor
*Outstanding Volunteer in Public Service Awards, 2002, 2004 from the Bar Association of San Francisco
*Member, California Bar Association
*Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
Gali can be reached at gali@galigordon.com.