Rachel Lehr
Rachel Lehr was born and raised in Metro Detroit, and her route into immigration law runs through both her Polish heritage and her academic background in the social sciences. She double-majored in Anthropology and Ethnic Studies at Albion College — training in how people move, settle, and are categorized — before earning her Juris Doctor from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
During law school she interned with the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and with the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic's immigration and human rights division, working with clients who had no realistic alternative to free representation.
Across her legal career she has handled family-based petitions, employment-based cases, and removal defense. Because immigration is federal practice, she represents clients before USCIS and the immigration courts nationwide from the firm's Michigan office.
Her interest in human rights is not a line on a résumé; it is what pointed her at this work in the first place, and it shows in the kinds of cases she takes on and the patience she brings to clients whose accounts of what happened to them are complicated, partial, or hard to evidence.
Rachel is admitted to the State Bar of Ohio and is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She serves clients in English and conversational Spanish.
Practice focus
- Family immigration
- Employment immigration
- Removal defense
- Human rights matters
Credentials
- State Bar of Ohio
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
- J.D., Case Western Reserve University School of Law
- B.A., Albion College