Milan Sundaresan

- Lecturer in Law
Biography
Milan is an immigration attorney specialized in defending individuals in deportation proceedings. Milan runs a boutique private practice in San Francisco, Milan Law, and is also a Senior Attorney at the non-profit organization, Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto (“CLSEPA”), where she provides pro bono legal representation to low-income immigrants all over the Bay Area. Prior to founding Milan Law, Milan worked at the Law Office of Robert B. Jobe in San Francisco, where she represented a variety of detained and non-detained clients with complex cases before immigration courts and agencies throughout the United States. Milan also worked with Central American Resource Center (“CARECEN”) in San Francisco, representing undocumented children and families on the San Francisco Immigration Court’s surge dockets as part of the San Francisco Immigrant Legal Defense Collaborative. Milan began her career in Los Angeles at Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project, where she exclusively represented unaccompanied children in removal proceedings. Milan moved to the United States with her family when she was eight years old and has called California her home since. When not practicing law, Milan teaches yoga at Yoga Beach in San Francisco.
Education
- B.A., New York University, 2010
- J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law, 2013