Attorneys and Staff

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ATTORNEYS AT LAW

SUZANNE BROWN, Attorney at Law
Ms. Brown is a well-recognized leader in the field of Immigration Law practice and to the cause of justice. She received the coveted AV rating, and has received numerous awards including:

Ms. Brown is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and has twice served on the national Board of Governors, and as Chair of the Missouri-Kansas Chapter. She has previously served on AILA's Liaison Committee for the Nebraska Service Center of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and also as the Liaison for the St. Louis, Missouri field Office of USCIS. She is licensed to practice law in the states of Missouri and Illinois (inactive), and is fully licensed to represent individuals and companies throughout the United States in front of the USCIS, the Department of Labor (DOL), the Immigration Courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Federal District Court of Eastern Missouri, and the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. She also mentors in three fields of immigration practice for AILA, and her law offices currently serve as a clinic site for Washington University in St. Louis's School of Law, Civil Rights and Social Justice Clinic.

She is featured regularly in local publications and is a regular provider of Continuing Legal Education in the Immigration Law practice area.


RACHEL GRONECK, Attorney at Law
Licensed in Missouri and Minnesota
Admitted to practice before the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals
Bilingual English/Spanish

Ms. Groneck has experience in refugee and asylum matters, family and employment based immigration, consular processing, naturalization, and assisting victims of crime, human trafficking and domestic abuse. She frequently represents individuals in removal and bond proceedings before the Immigration Courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals. Ms. Groneck has also successfully defended clients before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. She is presently a member of the executive committee of Interfaith Legal Services for Immigrants and previously served as a executive member of the Missouri-Kansas Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Before entering private practice, Ms. Groneck served as an Attorney Advisor with the Executive Office for Immigration Review in the Department of Justice's Honors Programs.


WESLEY SCHOOLER, Attorney at Law
Licensed in Missouri
Bilingual English/Spanish

Wesley Schooler earned his B.A. in Communications from the University of Southern Mississippi and his J.D. from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri. While in law school, Mr. Schooler volunteered as an intern with the Legal Aid Board of South Africa in Durban, South Africa, an organization dedicated to providing indigent persons with legal assistance in criminal and civil matters. He also participated in Washington University's Civil Rights and Community Justice Clinic, focusing his work on immigration law and advocacy. Mr. Schooler began working as an intern with the Law Offices of Suzanne Brown in 2007 before joining the firm as an attorney in 2008. Mr. Schooler has experience working on Family Visa Petitions, Employment Visa Petitions, Nonimmigrant Visas, Naturalization, Political Asylum, Inadmissibility Waivers, and Appeals of denied applications and petitions. He also has experience litigating mandamus actions and other immigration matters in Federal District Court.



PARALEGALS

OLGA TKHORJEVSKAIA OLDANI, Senior Paralegal
Bilingual English/Russian

Born in Moscow, Russia, Ms. Oldani graduated from Moscow Linguistics University cum laude with a Master's Degree in linguistics in 1991. Ms. Oldani immigrated to the United States in 1993 and worked as a translator while she completed an Associate Degree in Legal Studies. She began working at the Law Offices of Suzanne Brown in April, 1999, and has extensive experience working with family and employment based immigration, particularly labor certifications, H-1B's and L-1 nonimmigrant visas.


DANIEL JUAREZ, Paralegal
Bilingual English/Spanish

Before immigrating to the United States in 1981, Mr. Juarez earned a Master's Degree in Sociology from San Marcos University in Lima, Peru. In 1989, Mr. Juarez began working for the Immigration Project of the Illinois Conference of Churches and later for the Immigration Project in Granite City, IL, where he served as Executive Director for 2 years before joining the Law Offices of Suzanne Brown in January, 2003. At the Project, Mr. Juarez was accredited by the U.S. Department of Justice, Board of Immigration Appeals, to represent individuals in front of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, now the USCIS. Mr. Juarez has extensive experience in the field of naturalization and family petitions.


NORMAN MOLINA, Paralegal
Bilingual English/Spanish

Born in Honduras, Mr. Molina has lived and worked in the United States since 1998. During that time, he became a U.S. Department of Justice, Board of Immigration Appeals Accredited Representative, assisting low-income clients with their immigration needs. Mr. Molina has extensive experience in the areas of family petitions, TPS, and H-2B's. He joined the firm in the Spring of 2004.



AHED ISMAIL, Office Manager/Paralegal
Bilingual English/Arabic

Born in Yemen, raised in Kuwait, Ms. Ismail earned a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering from Kuwait University in 1990, and immigrated to the United States in 1997 where she earned her Master's Degree in Business Administration from Maryville University in 2001. She began working at the Law Offices of Suzanne Brown in September 2005. Ms. Ismail has a seven years experience in office management and accounting, and is knowledgeable about both family and business immigration.


JENNIFER JACOBS, Case Manager

Jennifer Jacobs earned her B.A. in sociology from the University of Vermont and her J.D. from the New College of California School of Law. Besides her work at a private law firm, while in California, Ms. Jacobs dedicated her professional skills to the public interest sector, including work at Americorps, the National Park Service, Bay Area Legal Aid, Justice Now, the National Center for Youth Law, the San Francisco Human Rights Commission - Protection and Advocacy, and the Fight Crime - Invest in Kids program. After returning to St. Louis in 2004, Ms. Jacobs began work as a litigation paralegal before joining the Law Offices of Suzanne Brown in 2007, where she assists with Immigrant Consular Processing matters abroad and manages all of the firm's complicated and demanding waiver of inadmissibility cases.



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