Prerna Lal, Esq. has a long history of advocacy for all people who have been wronged.

A monumental civil rights advocate, Attorney Prerna Lal pioneered a robust network of highly-organized and diverse undocumented youth with digital engagement capacity, and fought against the deportations of immigrant community members. This model of organizing spurred immigration organizations across the country to fight against deportations, and laid the groundwork for the Obama Administration’s “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)” program. For this, Attorney Lal received awards and recognition in the community, including the Changemaker of the Year award from the South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT). ABC News has listed Lal as among the “Top 20 Immigration Experts to Follow on Twitter” while Ms Magazine has recognized them as one of the “50 Feminist Women to Follow” and Colorlines has showcased them in “Here’s 15 Smart Women of Color on Twitter.”

Prerna Lal is also widely recognized for their work on behalf of the LGBT community, and for bridging the queer and immigrant rights movement in the United States. In recent years, Lal has served as a board director of Immigration Equality, and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice.

Prerna Lal has also worked at leading law firms and non-profits on both sides of the country, focusing on taxation matters and immigration law. As a law clerk, Attorney Lal worked at Trow & Rahal P.C., specializing in corporate and employment immigration matters, and at Benach Collopy LLP, specializing in complex immigration federal court litigation and removal defense. As a policy attorney in Washington D.C., Attorney Lal worked at Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC to craft federal policies such as extended DACA, DAPA, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Nepal and parole-in-place for the family members of Filipino war veterans. Most of these policies remain in place even under the Trump Administration. Most recently, Attorney Lal served as the sole immigration counsel for over 500 students ad their family at the University of California, Berkeley, single-handedly creating and sustaining the most successful school-based legal services program in the United States for over two years. At the East Bay Community Law Center, Lal taught at the immigration law clinic for over two years and mentored a new generation of law students from across the country on how to become public interest attorneys.

Prerna Lal is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia by the D.C. Court of Appeals, and due to the federal nature of tax and immigration law, can represent clients all over the United States and abroad. Their practice area is limited to federal law matters.