Our Team

Ross is the founder and principal attorney of the firm.

Ross works in areas of business laws, specializing in commercial laws, and corporate and securities laws. He has experience that spans the life-cycle of a business, from conception and formation to execution and dissolution. The firm is the outside counsel of various businesses. Ross also handles other business law matters such as labor and employment laws, trademark, etc.

In addition to his specialty in business laws, Ross has also developed strong expertise in employment-based (EB) immigration matters, serving the unique demands of multinational corporations as well as small companies for their inbound U.S. immigrant professionals.

Ross has education and experience in various fields, including architecture, engineering, science and technologies. He received his Bachelor degree in Engineering in Architecture from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). Thereafter, he obtained M.S. in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and J.D. from Taft Law School. His thorough understanding across broad range of disciplines equips him with precise and profound insight when handling clients’ cases by enabling him to employ a multidisciplinary approach.

Ross is admitted to practice law in the State of California. Ross is fluent in both English and Mandarin Chinese.

Education

• JD, Taft Law School
• M.S, UCLA
• M. Arch. II, UCLA
• B.E., Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)

Bar Admissions

• The State Bar of California
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• United States District Court for the Central District of California

Memberships and Affiliations

• American Bar Association
• American Immigration Lawyers Association
• Los Angeles County Bar Association

With over seventeen years of experience, Miao is an industry veteran enjoying an established reputation as an expert in immigration law among Asian American communities in the U.S..

Miao first came to the United States in 1996 to pursue her graduate studies in the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). After obtaining her Master’s degree from UCLA, and, as part of her doctoral research,Miao studied the Chinese immigrant community in California, focusing on the effects of current U.S. immigration laws on Chinese immigrants. To this end, Miao joined a Los Angeles immigration law office that specializes in employment-based immigration cases.

Miao has since accumulated over seventeen years of professional experience exclusively in immigration matters. Her specialty lies in immigrant visas for aliens of Extraordinary Ability, aliens who are Outstanding Researchers/Professors, and aliens of Exceptional Ability who qualified for National Interest Waivers (NIW) of a job offer, Immigrant Investor Program (EB-5), and hence, labor certification. Miao has successfully assisted numerous Chinese graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in myriad scientific disciplines from various universities and research institutions throughout the United States. She has successfully assisted foreign nationals, entrepreneurs from other countries, in their applications for permanent residency in the United States, including India, Russia, France, Australia, and Korea. Miao’s experience has also assisted numerous Chinese scholars attain Labor Certification through Special Handling for College Teachers/Professors.

Before joining our firm, Miao handled immigration cases for the Law Office of Michael I. Brooks, APC (JingChengLaw.com) since 2006, and has already garnered an impressive record of successes in various nonimmigrant visa applications, including H-1B visas for aliens in accounting, electrical engineering, architecture, business management, computer science, medicine, etc. Moreover, she has attained an equally stellar record in helping O-1 non-immigrant visas for aliens of Extraordinary Ability.

These successes and the trust her clients place in her have contributed to the numerous referrals the office has received from satisfied and appreciative clients all over the United States.

Mr. George Luo received his Master of Laws from University of Virginia, School of Law. He has a Bachelor of Laws from China University of Political Science and Law.

His practice has involved advising clients on intellectual property issues, such as trademark and patent infringement litigations and administrative litigations. At the mean time, he has practiced law in fields such as corporation, contract, private equity, etc. He has been legal counsel for many international companies including U.S. companies on their direct investments in China and Chinese clients on their outbound transactions, mainly in areas like manufacturing, online services, infrastructure, and real estates. He is experience in risk and compliance for corporate law.

Mr. Luo is licensed in New York State, U.S. and qualified to practice law in China. He is also a licensed patent attorney in China.

He is fluent in both Mandarin Chinese and English.

Jingyan holds a Bachelor Degree of Arts, from Jilin University, China. Her passion for corporation law started early in college. She thereby co-founded an advertising agency for serving multinational conglomerate, which contributes to her understanding of corporation law and regulation.

Following her accomplishments in China, Jingyan received her Master of Science from the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications of Kansas State University (KSU). Her area of specialization is Media Management, which deepened her understanding of U.S. corporation. Her paper, From Us to Me: Cultural Value Changes from Collectivism to Individualism in Chinese Commercials, ranked in the top 3 graduate student papers in Advertising Division of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in 2017.

Besides academic research, Jingyan also engaged in extracurricular activities to sharpen her communication skills with people from different backgrounds and to enhance cultural exchange between Chinese and Americans on the campus. Some of her contributions included hosting the Spring Festival Gala in 2017 for the Chinese Students and Scholars Union of KSU, planning a talk show radio program named Cultural Exchangefor 91.9 KSDB Radio Station, and organizing two cultural fashion shows and a flash mob for the Confucius Institute.

As an international student, she has the privilege of a more international perspective and could think from the point of view for the U.S. mainstream community. The transition from China to the U.S. , the researches about cultural differences , the seasoned experience at corporation industry, all collectively prompting her to explore the uniqueness of every U.S. employment-based immigration applicant, building solid conjunction between employee and employer.

Catherine is a recent graduate of the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) where she majored in Political Science. With an emphasis in Public Law, Catherine studied various subjects pertaining to the legal system and law specifically relating to civil rights, copyright and foreign policies. Since taking her first legal studies class at UC Irvine, Catherine’s interest in the law field has only grown.

She hopes to eventually attend law school where she could specialize in civil rights law. Catherine is tremendously interested in the process of immigration and believes it is greatly important to an individual’s civil rights, the betterment of the individual, and the betterment of the United States as a whole.

Languages: English, Tagalog, Spanish (basic)