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Corinne is a Senior Associate in Fragomen’s New York office, where she focuses her practice on supporting multinational corporate clients with immigrant and nonimmigrant matters.
Prior to joining Fragomen, Corinne worked as an attorney advisor at detained and non-detained immigration courts in New York. In this role, she advised immigration judges, drafted case decisions and memoranda for various case types and mentored law clerks.
During law school, Corinne worked as a summer law clerk in Fragomen’s New Jersey office, where she assisted with drafting client support letters for immigrant and nonimmigrant matters. Corinne also worked at a boutique law firm during law school, where she prepared family- and humanitarian-based immigration applications and drafted briefs and memoranda. Corinne honed her writing and organizational skills as a member of the Rutgers Law Review.
Corinne speaks English and Spanish.
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- Rutgers University School of Law, J.D., cum laude , 2017
- The College of New Jersey, B.A./B.S., magna cum laude , 2014
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