Erik Atambaev, the founder of the firm, is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the New York Bar and authorized to practice the immigration law in all 50 U.S. states. Erik Atambaev graduated from the University of Southern California School of Law, in Los Angeles, CA. Attorney Atambaev's practice areas include employment, family, and investment-based immigration as well as asylum, deportation-defense, and other humanitarian reliefs. He represents clients before USCIS, before Immigration Courts throughout the U.S., and before the State Department at U.S. Embassies worldwide. Prior to founding the firm, Atambaev worked as an associate attorney at Premier International Law Group Ponce Law Group, and Law Office of Ally Bolour, as well as volunteered at the Ezpenranza Immigrants Rights Project. He is fluent in English, Russian, Kyrgyz, and conversant in Spanish.

Carmen E. Atkins represents clients in all areas of immigration law, including removal proceedings before the Immigration Court. She also has extensive experience with family-based petitions, applications for residency, asylum applications, and applications for citizenship. Ms. Atkins also represents clients with employment and investment-based immigration cases. Ms. Atkins is deeply committed to advancing immigrants’ rights. In practice, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees recognized her work with the 2016 1st and 2nd Place Judgment Award, awarded to the most progressive immigrants’ rights judgments in the American continents, for her constitutional actions against the State of Ecuador, which forced Ecuador to restore international refugee law into their domestic law. Ms. Atkins earned her Juris Doctor from University of California at Berkeley where she was awarded the Brian M. Sax prize for excellence in clinical advocacy, given to the student with the most outstanding performance among the law school’s clinics. Ms. Atkins was recognized for her tireless work before the Inter-American Human Rights System, which held the State of Guatemala accountable for over 100 victims of forced disappearance in the context of Jose Miguel Gudiel Alvarez et al. vs. Guatemala. Prior to that, Ms. Atkins earned her Bachelor’s of Science Degree at Cornell University, where she was consistently on the Dean’s List and was accepted to the Ye Hosts Honor Society, composed of Cornell Hotel School students selected from the top ten percent of their class. Ms. Atkins is Peruvian and Nicaraguan and is fluent in Spanish and English. She also speaks Italian, French, and Portuguese.

At her own law firm in Houston, Texas, Beatriz Trillos Ballerini brings more than 18 years of experience in all manner of immigration law matters to bear on assisting individuals and their families throughout the greater Houston area who are seeking work or citizenship in the United States. While the scope of her immigration and nationality law practice is comprehensive, ranging from temporary work visa acquisition and consular processing to permanent residency and other citizenship matters, she concentrates primarily on special visas, labor certifications, intracompany transfers and other employment-based immigration matters. Fluent in three languages, including her native Spanish, Ms. Trillos Ballerini brings a rich perspective to her clients' cases as a Colombia native who immigrated with her family to the United States when she was young. Ms. Trillos Ballerini earned her law degree from the South Texas College of Law. Licensed by the Supreme Court of Texas, she is admitted to practice before all state courts in addition to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. She holds membership in the Houston Bar Association, the Hispanic Bar Association, the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce of Texas and three chapters of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Widely recognized for her experience and insight, Ms. Trillos Ballerini appears frequently as an authority on immigration law topics on Univision, and she has spoken at conferences in Mexico and Canada and around the U.S.. She is presently actively working as the liaison between the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and Customs Border Protection (CBP) Houston and is listed in Houstonia Magazine Top Lawyers of 2015,2016,2017 and 2018.

The Law Offices of Steven Balson-Cohen Esq. P.C. are committed to providing aggressive representation in a cost effective manner. Clients are advised on litigation options including mediation, arbitration, motion practice and trials. As these law offices are a full service firm the client can be assured that Mr. Balson-Cohen will stay with the case through and including any appeal. Most importantly Mr. Balson-Cohen is committed to providing the personal service and attention that every client has a right to expect from their attorney.

Mr. Dustin Baxter received his B.A. degree from the University of Oregon, graduating summa cum laude, in 2002. He then earned his J.D. degree from the University of Oregon School of Law in 2005. Mr. Baxter is admitted to practice law in both Georgia and Oregon. Mr. Baxter lived in Oaxaca, Mexico for two years during his undergraduate studies and as a result speaks, reads and writes fluent Spanish. Mr. Baxter regularly represents clients before U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services seeking both employment and family based adjustment of status and naturalization. Mr. Baxter regularly represents clients before the Executive Officer for Immigration Review, including immigration courts nationwide and the Board of Immigration Appeals. Mr. Baxter represents foreign nationals seeking asylum, cancellation of removal, NACARA, TPS, and adjustment of status before Immigration Judges.