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As an attorney in California for more than 28 years, Alice Yardum-Hunter’s practice has always exclusively concentrated on immigration law—mostly business related and complex matters. She began her career as an immigration generalist handling a wide variety of cases, from consular processing to deportation work, and everything in between. Ms. Yardum-Hunter is currently Liaison to the Customs and Border Protection and former Citizenship and Immigration Service and Department of Labor Liaison on behalf of the LA County Bar Association Immigration Section, and a former Commissioner to the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization, Immigration and Nationality Law Advisory Commission. This body monitors attorney specialists in immigration law. She has been invited repeatedly to head this commission. Alice Yardum-Hunter is a Certified Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law. Beginning in 2004 and every year thereafter, she has been honored as a recipient of the prestigious “Super Lawyers” designation by Los Angeles Magazine, reserved for the top approximately 2-5% of immigration lawyers in Southern California. There are approximately 1,000 immigration lawyers in Southern California. It is awarded to a a very small group of attorneys based on merit for quality of work, from a survey of 65,000 lawyers and two tiers of Blue Ribbon Judge review, and not just on reputation. She was recently invited to be included in the "Global Directory of Who’s Who" and was nominated in 2007 within the top 25 lawyers in the San Fernando Valley, a locale with approximately 9,000 lawyers.
Ms. Yardum-Hunter has published many articles on the law for the professional and lay reader. Her work has been published in Los Angeles Lawyer magazine, California Board Of Legalization Digest, HR News (published by the Society of Human Resource Management), PIHRAScope (a publication of the Professionals in Human Resources Assn.), ilw.com (the leading Internet immigration portal), Century City Bar Assn. News, amongst many others including weekly columns and other specialty articles for attorney, human resource and ethnic and nationality focused publications. For many years, she regularly also moderated on-line chats for ilw.com. She has also edited books for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the premiere professional organization of immigration lawyers nationwide, for their “California Conference Handbook”, in 1997 and “Representing Professionals before the Department of Labor”, in 1994.
A frequent speaker at seminars for attorneys and others with an interest in immigration law, Alice has delivered presentation to organizations such as the Los Angeles, San Diego and Armenian Bar Associations, UCLA and Pepperdine Universities, the Armenian International Women’s Association Conference in Paris, France, amongst others. She has also guest taught immigration law at LA City College and Rio Hondo College. In 2003 she was featured on KCMO, Kansas City’s radio “Business Report”, in 1996 she was a guest on NPR’s show in San Francisco, “Your Legal Rights”, and in 1999 and 2001, she appeared on KWHY’s TV show, “Our People, Our Town.”
Alice Yardum-Hunter has been a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association since 1984. On behalf of AILA, between 1996 and 2001, Ms. Yardum-Hunter chaired a Southern California-wide essay contest for fifth grade students, entitled, “Why I’m Glad America is a Nation of Immigrants”. She additionally spearheaded the Immigration Subcommittee of the Armenian Bar Association. Also active in local associations, she is a former Vice President and Secretary of the San Diego County Bar Association, Immigration Section, 1981-83. She currently serves on the Executive Committee for the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
Prior to practicing law, Ms. Hunter was an intern at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland on a grant from the Dana Foundation. She attended Boston University, UCLA, and the New College of Hofstra University and received her law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law. Prior to graduation, she studied at the Institute of Comparative and International Law in conjunction with the Sorbonne, Paris, France. She also did post-graduate International Law studies at the Faculty of Law, Salzburg University, Salzburg, Austria.
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