Legal Elite 2024: Immigration Law Q&A Radlyn Mendoza and John Gardner

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Title: Co-founders

Other legal specialties: Business and family immigration

Education: Seton Hall University School of Law

Family: We have three amazing daughters!

Career mentors: Jim Tom Haynes and Keith Kimball, and both of our dads, Conrado Mendoza and James Gardner

Hobbies: For Radlyn, travel & food; John: running, travel, reading

First legal job: For Radlyn, eat-what-you-kill at Stowe & Associates; John hung a shingle after law school.

Book you’d recommend to others: Radlyn: “10x is Easier Than 2x,” by Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy; John: “The Fountainhead,” by Ayn Rand

Fan of: Go Bucks! 

Favorite place you’ve traveled: Zermatt, Switzerland (and hiking to see the Matterhorn), Galapagos Islands and Singapore to watch the F-1 Formula Race

What do you enjoy most about your legal specialty? To be a part of our clients’ immigration journey and watching their dreams materialize. And getting showered with gifts and foods from all over the world is a plus!

What case was your biggest win? We do many different types of immigration cases in business and family, but it’s always a big win when we help children who have entered the U.S., many of them unaccompanied, with the Special Immigrant Juvenile process. The knowledge that we’re setting them up for a far better future than they would’ve had in their countries feels pretty great. 

What are the most recent challenges you’re seeing in your legal specialty? Extremely long processing times for people applying for immigrant visas abroad and sometimes double and triple the processing times at United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for certain cases. 

Is there something in your past work or personal life that makes you a better attorney? We’re better attorneys because we’re married. We’ve cultivated our firm’s evolving vision over the past 25 years, and with our awesome, growing team, we are excited for the next 25 to be the go-to immigration law firm to help businesses and families in all 50 states.

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