Ms. Apa is Special Counsel at Damon Morey LLP, in the firm’s Labor & Employment Department, where she practices exclusively in the area of U.S. Immigration Law. Ms. Apa has focused her practice in the field of Immigration since 2001 and is licensed in the states of New York and Ohio.
Ms. Apa received a dual B.A. degree, magna cum laude, in English/Journalism and History from the University of New Hampshire in 1993. She went on to earn her J.D., with distinction, from Ohio Northern University’s Claude W. Pettit College of Law in 1997.
Ms. Apa recently was appointed to serve on the Immigration Litigation Committee for the New York State Bar Association. This Committee is dedicated to working with the immigration bar, as well as government attorneys, and federal court judges to devise strategies for improving the current deportation/removal system.
An accomplished writer, Ms. Apa has been a regular author for Bender’s Immigration Bulletin. She also has written numerous legal articles on various immigration issues for local and national publications, including the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Buffalo Law Journal and The Daily Record (Rochester, New York). Ms. Apa also is credited with editing and revising immigration law chapters for The Homeland Security Deskbook and The Immigration Law and Procedure Desk Edition, both published by Mathew Bender/Lexis.
Ms. Apa also serves each week as a moderator for an online immigration law chat. This chat, hosted by Lawyers.com, allows Ms. Apa to provide general information on U.S. immigration law in response to questions from lay persons.
Additionally, Ms. Apa was listed in the 2008 and 2009 “Who’s Who in Law” list published by Business First of Buffalo.
Prior to joining Damon Morey, Ms. Apa served as an adjunct Legal Research & Writing instructor at Ohio Northern University. During that time, she also was employed as an Appellate Law Clerk to Judges John Evans and Sumner Walters at the Court of Appeals for the Third District of Ohio.
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