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Sara Mostafa-Ray
graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania, magna cum laude, with a
Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and
International Relations. She was awarded a
highly regarded, four-year academic
scholarship from AT&T and Lucent
Technologies towards her undergraduate
studies.
Sara earned her Juris
Doctorate degree from the UCLA School of Law
in 2006. Thereafter, she joined Cooley LLP
(formerly Cooley Godward Kronish LLP) as an
Associate in the firm's Business Department. At Cooley, Sara worked on business
entity formation, employment transactions,
licensing transactions, public and private
securities offerings, mergers and
acquisitions, SEC disclosure and corporate
governance matters.
Sara moved to
Honolulu in 2008 and began
working for the Domestic Violence Action
Center, a nonprofit legal agency, as an Immigrant Outreach Specialist. Sara served as a
legal educator and an advocate for Hawaii’s
immigrant populations, teaching the public,
including personnel at schools, hospitals,
consulates and legal agencies, on
immigration law as it affects victims of
domestic violence.
Sara began working as
an Associate for Damon Key Leong Kupchak
Hastert, a prestigious Hawaii law firm, in
January 2011. Sara worked primarily for the
firm’s Immigration Practice Group and gained
invaluable experience representing companies
and individuals in a wide range of
immigration matters, including applying for
non-immigrant visas, such as treaty
investor, temporary worker, intra-company
transferee, religious worker and visitor
visas; petitioning for employment-based and
family-based immigration; seeking
cancellation and waivers of removal; and
seeking asylum and Violence Against Women
Act relief. Sara also practiced in the
firm’s Litigation Practice Group, where she
negotiated settlement agreements, conducted
research and drafted legal memoranda.
Upon moving back to San
Diego at the end of 2011, Sara joined
Montage Legal Group and is currently doing
freelance projects for law firms.
Sara is licensed to
practice law in California and Hawaii. When
she is not working, Sara enjoys spending
time with her husband and two boys. |
