Presenter's bio:
Beata Leja is a partner at Minsky, McCormick & Hallagan, P.C., an immigration law firm in Chicago, IL founded in 1975. She has been practicing both employment-based and family-based immigration law since 2007. Her clients include fortune 500 companies, as well as small local businesses in a wide variety of industries. She is an adjunct professor at the John Marshall School of Law, teaching business aspects of immigration law, and also serves as a board member of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, a national organization that advocates for the rights and best interests of immigrant children in removal proceedings. She was recognized by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin as one of the top 40 Under 40 attorneys in Chicago in 2018. She speaks both Polish and Spanish.
