Anita Mukherji


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Anita Mukherji is a managing partner at Bean, Lloyd, Mukherji, & Taylor. LLP. She is a Certified Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Board of Legal Specialization of the State Bar of California. Prior to joining the firm in 2017, Ms. Mukherji was an immigration attorney at Catholic Charities of the East Bay, primarily representing unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central America in their applications for asylum and Special Immigrant Juvenile Status. There, she also represented clients in family-based and U Visa cases. Before her position at Catholic Charities, Ms. Mukherji was a Childhood Arrivals Fellow at the UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic, representing unaccompanied minors and their families.
Ms. Mukherji received her J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law in 2014. She was a member of the UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic and was a UC Human Rights Fellow. Ms. Mukherji received her A.B. from Harvard College in 2009, concentrating in romance languages and literatures. She is currently on the Board of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Northern California Chapter and is Chair of the AILA New Members Division Steering Committee and on the AILA National Board of Governors. Ms. Mukherji is a member of the California Bar.
Areas Of Practice
- Immigration Law
Bar Admissions
- California, 2014
Education
- University of California, Davis School of Law, Davis, California
- J.D. - 2014
- Honors: UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic, Member
- Honors: UC Human Rights Fellow
- Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- A.B. - 2009
- Major: Romance Languages and Literatures
Specialties And Certifications
- Immigration and Nationality Law, Immigration and Nationality Law, Board of Legal Specialization, State Bar of California, 2021
Published Works
- Applying a Totality of the Circumstances Test to the Analysis of the Persecutor and Material Support Bars in Child Soldier Asylum Cases in the United States, 19 UC Davis J. Juv. L. & Pol’y 171 (Summer, 2015)
Honors And Awards
- Women Lawyers of Sacramento - Virginia S. Mueller Scholarship Recipient, 2014
- University of California Human Rights Fellow, 2013
Professional Associations
- American Immigration Lawyers Association Northern California Chapter, Board Secretary, 2021 to Present
- American Immigration Lawyers Association , Chair- New Members Division Steering Committee , 2021 to Present
- American Immigration Lawyers Association Northern California Chapter, Advisory Council Member, 2015 to 2019
- American Immigration Lawyers Association , Member- Board of Governors, 2021 to Present
Past Employment Positions
- Catholic Charities of the East Bay, Immigration Attorney, 2015 to 2017
- UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic, Childhood Arrivals Fellow, 2014 to 2015
Languages
- Spanish
- French
- Italian