Janet E Moon

Janet has proven herself to be a trusted advisor to her clients, helping businesses, families and students navigate the immigration system. Janet can help your family come together through the green card or visa process, including fiancé visas, immigrant visas, adjustment, and citizenship processes. She helps international students transition from studying to working in the US. She also helps businesses build new locations in the US and retain talented people from around the world. Janet has experience preparing clients for interviews and hearings, handling denials, notices of intent to deny, requests for evidence and other problems that can arise in immigration. Janet focuses her on practice immigration law, so she is very familiar with a variety of immigration specific issues.

Janet trained with Diane Chappell-Daly, who practiced immigration law in Central New York for over 25 years. Janet now has the distinction of being named a Super Lawyer's Rising Star in the field of immigration for four years in a row. She was selected as a 40 Under 40 Honoree in 2016.

Janet is a native of Connecticut and prior to her immigration practice, she clerked at the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. Janet has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University's iSchool, teaching Information Policy. She earned her J.D. magna cum laude from Syracuse University College of Law, her Master of Public Administration from Syracuse University Maxwell School, and her undergraduate degree from Smith College.

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New York

New York State Office of Court Administration

ID Number: 4648473

Since 2009

Principal Attorney

Moon Law Office, LLC

2011 - 2019

Adjunct Professor

Syracuse University iSchool

2015 - 2016

As an Adjunct faculty member at SU's iSchool, Janet taught Information Policy, focusing on public policy issues in the digital environment, including freedom of expression, freedom of information, intellectual property, privacy, security, economics, and access.

Law Clerk

US Distric Court of Northern New York

2008 - 2010

Syracuse University College of Law

J.D. (2008)

2005 - 2008

Honors: Magna cum laude

Activities: President, Actual Innocence Society; Associate Editor, Journal of International Law and Commerce; Member, Environmental Law Trial Team; Writer, Jessup Moot Court Competition; Researcher, The Sierra Leone Project; and Oralist, Toronto International Law Moot Court Competition

Syracuse University

M.A. (2008) | Public Administration

2005 - 2008

Smith College

B.A. (2001) | American History

2000 - 2002

Rising Star

Super Lawyers

2019

Janet has been selected as a Super Lawyer's Rising Star in the field of immigration law from 2016 through 2019.

Rising Star

Super Lawyers

2018

Rising Star

Super Lawyers

2017

Rising Star

Super Lawyers

2016

40 Under Forty

CNY Business Journal

2016

40 Under Forty recognizes 40 ambitious, hard-working, civic-minded individuals, who are under the age of 40. These individuals have excelled in the workplace and in the community. This group demonstrates diverse backgrounds, experiences and skills; they thrive on active community involvement and appreciate the importance of their role in advancing public good.

State Bar of New York  # 4648473

Member

Current

William Herbert Johnson Bar Association

Member

2018 - Current

American Immigration Lawyers Association

Member

2015 - Current

NYCLU CNY Chapter

Board Chair

2015 - Current

Onondaga County Bar Association

Member

2011 - Current

Violence, Culture, & HIV/AIDS: Can Domestic Violence Laws Reduce Women’s Risk of HIV Infection?

Syracuse Journal of International Law & Commerce

2007