James E. Root

Background

About James E. Root

James E. Root is the Founder and Principal Attorney of Root Law Group and a leading Southern California practitioner of immigration law, criminal law and transactional law. An immigrant to the U.S. himself (as a refugee from Ukraine), he not only understands the special needs of immigrants, non-immigrants, and their U.S. employers and families, but has dedicated his long and distinguished legal career to fighting for and protecting their rights, proactively advocating for immigration reform, and providing pro bono legal services to the indigent and the elderly. Mr. Root graduated in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing from Northern Illinois University before earning his Juris Doctor degree from Whittier Law School. A member of the California Bar Association (CBA), the American Bar Association (ABA), the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA), and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), he is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of California, the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and the United States Court of Appeals (for the Ninth Circuit and the Eleventh Circuit). In immigration-related matters, Mr. Root has represented clients in front of Immigration Court, before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), and in Federal District Court, as well as at Department of Homeland Security (DHS) offices throughout the United States — including the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) — and at Department of State (DOS) U.S. consulates abroad. He has also published articles (which have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Polish, and Hungarian) in such periodicals and newspapers as La Opinión, Pakistan Link, Kurier, American/Hungarian Journal, 7 Days, Anons, India Journal, and India Currents.