PERSON: Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg
Employer
Murray Osorio
Position
Partner
Biography
Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg is a partner and head of litigation in Murray Osorio’s Fairfax office. He has significant experience litigating against the federal government on behalf of immigrants, in individual and class actions, including district court, Courts of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. Simon has led cases of nationwide impact challenging immigration detention of adults and children. He has also led challenges to anti-immigrant policies such as the Muslim Ban, family separation under the Trump Administration, the attempt to cancel the DACA program, and others.
Simon has practiced immigration law and federal litigation since graduating from Yale Law School in 2008. He founded the Immigration Litigation Clinic at the George Mason School of Law, and has also taught the immigration clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Prior to joining Murray Osorio, Simon was the Litigation Director and Director of the Immigrant Justice Program at the Legal Aid Justice Center, a statewide nonprofit in Virginia, where he was instrumental in helping to pass state laws allowing undocumented immigrants access to driver privilege cards and in-state tuition. He previously worked as an associate for a famed veteran civil rights litigator in Virginia. As a student at Yale Law School, he founded the Legal Services for Immigrant Communities law clinic. Before law school, he lived in El Salvador and Honduras, where he worked for labor rights and human rights organizations.
Simon is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and serves on AILA’s Federal Court Litigation Section Steering Committee and the Benefits Litigation Committee. He helped develop the curriculum for AILA’s Federal Court Litigation course and is one of the faculty members teaching other immigration lawyers how to sue the government on immigration issues and providing crucial litigation strategies for all.
Simon is bilingual Spanish-English and frequently travels with his wife to her native Colombia, where he enjoys bicycling up steep mountain passes and eating empanadas.
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Simon has practiced immigration law and federal litigation since graduating from Yale Law School in 2008. He founded the Immigration Litigation Clinic at the George Mason School of Law, and has also taught the immigration clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Prior to joining Murray Osorio, Simon was the Litigation Director and Director of the Immigrant Justice Program at the Legal Aid Justice Center, a statewide nonprofit in Virginia, where he was instrumental in helping to pass state laws allowing undocumented immigrants access to driver privilege cards and in-state tuition. He previously worked as an associate for a famed veteran civil rights litigator in Virginia. As a student at Yale Law School, he founded the Legal Services for Immigrant Communities law clinic. Before law school, he lived in El Salvador and Honduras, where he worked for labor rights and human rights organizations.
Simon is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and serves on AILA’s Federal Court Litigation Section Steering Committee and the Benefits Litigation Committee. He helped develop the curriculum for AILA’s Federal Court Litigation course and is one of the faculty members teaching other immigration lawyers how to sue the government on immigration issues and providing crucial litigation strategies for all.
Simon is bilingual Spanish-English and frequently travels with his wife to her native Colombia, where he enjoys bicycling up steep mountain passes and eating empanadas.
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