Robert Baizer attended the University of California at Berkeley, and graduated in the top 10% of his class at Golden Gate University Law School.
For over twenty years, he was a partner in the firm of Yonemura, Yasaki & Baizer, which represented major Japanese & U.S. firms in employment based immigration cases, as well as in a variety of family immigration and citizenship matters.
Mr. Baizer has been a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association for over 25 years, has spoken as a lecturer to other attorneys at their educational events, and has appeared on the organization’s behalf as amicus counsel before the U.S. Supreme Court.
He has successfully represented immigrants before the U.S. Court of Appeals, in U.S. District Courts, at various agency offices in the U.S. and abroad, and has testified before the immigration subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Baizer is a long-time participant in the immigration law clinic of the Alameda County Bar Association.
Mr. Baizer has been certified as a specialist in immigration law by the State Bar of California for over 20 years, and has been selected as a Northern California “Superlawyer” through a peer evaluation process.