About the firm
A small office for the largest cases of someone’s life.
Jessica Smith Bobadilla founded this practice to do the work the volume firms cannot do well: complex deportation defense, federal appeals, and asylum cases that need real preparation.
Founding attorney
Jessica Smith
Bobadilla
Attorney at Law · Founder
Jessica is the daughter of an immigrant family and the first lawyer in her family. She has practiced immigration law for over twenty years, with a particular focus on federal court litigation, BIA appeals, and complex removal defense.
She has briefed and argued cases in multiple federal circuits, including the Ninth, the Fifth, and the Tenth, and has tried asylum and removal cases in immigration courts across the country. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and works with interpreters in additional languages as cases require.
Her practice does not advertise volume. It does not promise outcomes. What it offers is preparation: an attorney who has read the file, knows the record, and will be the one in the courtroom.
Bar admissions
California, U.S. District Courts (E.D. Cal., N.D. Cal., S.D. Cal.), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Memberships
American Immigration Lawyers Association, National Lawyers Guild, California Lawyers Association
I started this firm because I was tired of watching good cases lost to bad preparation. The law is hard enough on its own.
What we believe
Three things this office holds to.
Read the file first.
We do not write a strategy memo before we have read every page of the record. Most overlooked arguments are still in the file.
Tell the truth early.
If a case is unwinnable on the current record, the client deserves to hear that on day one, not after a year of fees.
Stay with the case.
The attorney who takes the case is the attorney who carries it. We turn down work to keep that promise.
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Initial consultations are limited and reviewed by Jessica directly.
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