Shannon Shepherd

Shannon M. Shepherd practices in the firm’s Chicago office and handles all types of immigration matters. Shannon has extensive experience with a broad range of immigration issues including Deportation and Removal proceedings, Employment-based petitions for immigrant visas and for non-immigrant L-1 and H-1B applicants, family-based immigrant petitions, and Naturalization and Derivative Citizenship claims. Shannon has also argued numerous immigration cases before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Seventh and Eighth Circuits, and she has experience in appellate practice at the State, Board of Immigration Appeals, and Federal level. She is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education programs for the ISBA and AILA. She also has published several articles in the ISBA’s International and Immigration Law Section Newsletter.

Attorney Shepherd earned her undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Georgia in 1998. She earned her degree from the John Marshall School of Law in 2003. She is admitted to practice in Illinois, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Districts, and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, where she has served as vice chair of the Chicago Chapter’s Continuing Legal Education Committee. She is also a member of the Illinois State Bar Association where she is a past chair for the International and Immigration Law Section Council, the International and Immigration Law Section Council’s CEL coordinator, and a member of the Human Rights Section Council.