Gabriela Lopez is an Oakland based immigration and criminal defense attorney who practices deportation defense for immigrants with criminal histories and criminal defense for immigrants and activist. In 2014 she founded The Community Law Office to provide low-income immigrant communities with competent legal representation and advocacy.
Prior to becoming a solo practitioner, Ms. Lopez worked as an associate at a small San Francisco based law firm with a focus on family based immigration. Ms. Lopez serves on the Board of Governors for the California Attorney's for Criminal Justice, where she is active with the legislative committee.
Ms. Lopez has developed and conducted know your rights presentations for demonstrators, immigrants, and individuals affected by discriminatory policing and investigative practices.
Prior to law school, Ms. Lopez organized low wage cafeteria workers in the San Francisco Bay Area into labor unions and advocated for a living wage and worker retention for subcontracted workers. Ms. Lopez earned her B.A. from the University of California Santa Cruz and double majored in political theory and Chinese history. Ms. Lopez received her law degree from the City University of New York School of Law (CUNY School of Law) in 2012.
Ms. Lopez is fluent in Spanish and conversational in Portuguese.
La abogada Lopez esta basada en Oakland y se enfoca en defensa criminal y migratoria. Especificamente, defensa para inmigrantes en sus caso criminales y para personas con antecedentes penales que se encuentran en procedimientos de deportacion. Ella fundo el bufete de la Oficina de la Comunidad en el 2014 para proveer a la comunidad inmigrante y de bajo recursos con defensa legal competente.
Antes de abrir su propio bufete, Gabriela trabajo como una asociada en un bufete de leyes pequeño en San Francisco que se enfocaba en migracion familiaria. La abogada Lopez sirve en la camara de gobernadores de la organizacion California Attorneys for Criminal Justice (Abogados de California para Justicia Criminal), donde es activa en la seccion legislativa.
Antes de atender la escuela de derecho, ella organizaba con un sindicatos laboral de trabajadores de cafeteria en la Area de la Bahia, donde defendia los derechos laborales y apoyaba un salario digno y retencion de trabajadores de subcontratadores. La abogada Lopez recibio su bacchilerato en la Universidad de California, Santa Cruz en Politica y Historia China. Recibio su licenciatura en derecho en la Universidad de Derechos de la Cuidad de Nueva York en el 2012.
La abogada Lopez habla Español fluido y conversa en Portugues.