Attorneys

US Dept. of Justice, Board of Immigration Appeals, Attorney Advisor, '79 - '80. Lecturer, District of Columbia Bar and George Washington Univ. Continuing Legal Ed. Program, "Immigration Law Basics". '91-'95. District of Columbia Bar. Massachusetts, Virgin Islands and Federal Bar Associations. American Imm. Lawyers Ass'n; Chairperson, DC Chapter, '82-'83; Co-chair, Liaison Comm. Exec. Office of Imm. Review, '92-'93. B.S., Tufts Univ. '71, J.D., Case Western Reserve Univ. '74.

James R. Mayock

California State Bar Certified Specialist in Immigration Law. Asia-Pacific Lawyers Ass'n. (Chair, Imm. Comm. '90-'95). Bar Ass'n San Francisco (Chair, Imm. Comm., '88-'89). American Imm. Lawyers Ass'n (Co-Chair, FOIA Sub-Comm., '89-'90). Inter Pacific Bar Ass'n. Phillips Andover Acad. '72, B.A., Univ. of Toronto '75, J.D., Indiana Univ. '78. Spanish, Russian. Read the San Francisco Attorney Magazine article about Jim Mayock here

Fabienne Chatain

State Bar of New York. French Bar. American Imm Lawyers Ass'n. Lawyers' Comm for Tibet. M.A., Univ. of Lyon '88; L.L.M., Georgetown Univ., '90. French.

Michael Hoops

Michael Hoops, Esq. has joined the San Francisco office of Elliot & Mayock, LLP. Mr. Hoops was most recently with Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, to which he moved after 2 years with Frost Brown Todd LLC, both located in Cincinnati, Ohio. An expert in Outstanding Researcher and Multinational Manager petitions, Mr. Hoops is a 1992 graduate of Boston University. He received his J.D. from Hofstra University, NY in 1996.

Yana Tkachenko

Yana Tkachenko, Esq. has joined the San Francisco office of Elliot & Mayock LLP. A native of Ukraine, Ms. Tkachenko worked as an immigration paralegal starting in 1999 with Pampanin Law Offices in Cambridge, and later with Greater Boston Legal Services. She graduated from Suffolk University Law School in 2005, where she was on the Dean's List and a member of the Transnational Law Review. Trained as an archeologist, Yana was awarded honors for her thesis entitled "The Historical Significance of the Scythes artifacts from Kamenaya Mogila." She graduated from Zaporozhye State University in 1994, with a double major in History and Foreign Languages.