PRINCIPAL ATTORNEY
Rebecca Freeman
Rebecca is an immigration attorney specializing in both employment-based and family-based immigration matters. She enjoys working with start-ups, entrepreneurs, and investors. She represents individuals and companies in a variety of industries to obtain specialty occupation, extraordinary ability, and investor-based visas. Her practice also includes employment-based and family-based permanent residence (green cards), naturalization, and humanitarian relief. She has successfully represented clients before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Immigration Court. Rebecca also handles work-site immigration compliance issues (I-9 compliance).
She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Rebecca is also a member of the Dartmouth Lawyers Association. She has been an invited speaker at the Bar Association of San Francisco, The Financial Executives International San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, The Kiwi Landing Pad, The Dartmouth Lawyers Association, Impact Hub Madrid, Fishburners, York Butter Factory, and Inspire9. She also serves as a resource for journalists related to matters of immigration policy.
Rebecca received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia, School of Law. Rebecca holds a Master of Science Degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics. She graduated as a Rufus Choate scholar with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College. Rebecca is licensed to practice law in California and practices immigration law federally.
SPecial Counsel
Melissa Malone
Melissa is a dual citizen of both South Africa and the U.S, and experienced the U.S. immigration process firsthand as an immigrant in the early 2000s. She specializes in business immigration for companies of all sizes, including startups and Fortune 500 companies. Melissa has experience assisting corporate clients across a broad spectrum of industries with a variety of immigration matters including non-immigrant visas, immigrant petitions, permanent residency applications, and labor certifications through various government agencies. Previously, Melissa practiced business immigration exclusively at an Am Law 200 law firm.
Special Counsel
Germaine Dunn
Germaine brings extensive experience working with federal agencies and advising on complex corporate matters to her immigration practice. For over a decade, she served as Associate Counsel at HASI, where she navigated regulatory, financing, and compliance issues at the intersection of law, business, and government. She also practiced at White & Case LLP and Squire Sanders, representing clients across industries in high-stakes transactions and regulatory matters.
As the daughter of Liberian immigrants, Germaine understands the human side of immigration while offering the sophisticated counsel that businesses, entrepreneurs, and families need when engaging with U.S. agencies.
Germaine earned her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and graduated cum laude from Amherst College with a B.A. in English. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New York.