Jenna Gilbert is an associate immigration attorney with Jacobson & Han LLP, Immigration Attorneys.

Ms. Jenna Gilbert is an experienced and successful immigration advocate.  Before joining Jacobson & Han, Ms. Gilbert was chosen as one of four recipients for the Loyola Law School Post-Graduate Fellowship in Public Interest Law. These fellowships are designed to provide legal services to underrepresented groups that have traditionally lacked full access to legal services, create new public interest law positions, and encourage and develop a diverse and qualified group of future public interest lawyers and leaders to ensure the future of public interest law. The fellowship committee awards full funding to those applicants with extraordinary independent project proposals.

As a fellow, Ms. Gilbert worked at a non-governmental organization in Ecuador, providing a variety of legal services, including asylum applications and appeals, to the refugee community. She used her fellowship as an opportunity to create and lead a prison advocacy project, in which she provided detained migrants with Know Your Rights presentations, advised them of their rights and potential refugee claims, and ensured their protection under the 1951 Refugee Convention. Ms. Gilbert frequently represented clients in deportation proceedings and also had the opportunity to argue a case in Ecuador’s highest court, the Corte Constitucional. Ms. Gilbert successfully represented clients in a wide variety of cases, including securing release from jail after submitting habeas corpus petitions on their behalf, winning back wages for clients who had been denied basic guarantees in the labor code, and other civil rights cases involving access to justice and anti-discrimination on behalf of refugees.

Ms. Gilbert received her Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and Spanish from the University of San Diego. She successfully completed the Honor’s Program after writing her thesis entitled “The Social Costs of U.S. Immigration Policy on Mexican Migration” and graduated cum laude. Ms. Gilbert subsequently received her Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where she participated in the Immigrant Justice Practicum, Inter-American Court of Human Rights Moot Court Competition, and was President of the International Law Society.

During law school, Ms. Gilbert gained exceptional experience in immigration law and advocacy, working with immigrant rights organizations and private immigration law firms. She has represented clients with claims to a variety of forms of immigration relief, including U-Visa, VAWA, asylum, withholding of removal, Convention Against Torture, and Special Immigrant Juvenile Status.

Ms. Gilbert was admitted to the California State Bar in 2011. She is fluent in Spanish.

 


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