Year Joined Organization: 2008

Lawyer Overview

Ms. Bekele practices in all areas of business-related immigration law.  She assists national and local employers including architectural firms, educational institutions, financial service firms, and health care providers with immigrant and non-immigrant matters.  She focuses her practice on representing employers before United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Department of Labor, and the Department of State on a wide variety of immigration matters.

Ms. Bekele served as legal intern for the Missouri State Public Defender's Office and Legal Aid of Western Missouri, Municipal Unit.  She also served as law clerk for an immigration firm in Atlanta where she handled various business and family based immigration petitions and applications.

Areas of Practice

• Immigration

Bar Admissions

• Missouri, 2008

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Immigration Lawyer's Association
• The Missouri Bar

Education

• University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, 2006
  J.D.
• Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 1997
  B.A.
  Honors: summa cum laude

Published Works

• Gizie Bekele Joins Lathrop & Gage as Staff Attorney, 2008

Address

2345 Grand Blvd.
Suite 2800
Kansas City, MO 64108

Phones

(816) 460-5848 (Business Phone)

Faxes

(816) 292-2001 (Business Fax)

Emails

Contact Us (Business Email)

Websites

http://www.lathropgage.com/