Mrs. Perez was first intrigued with immigration law when she was still a law student at UCLA School of Law. While participating in a Criminal Defense Clinic she was given an opportunity to defend her first client, a taquero who was being targeted by ticketeros implementing a Los Angeles City Municipal Code that forbade lunch (or taco) trucks from parking for more than one hour in commercial areas and one-half hour in residential areas. With the help of her professor and clinical partner, Mrs. Perez took on the City of Los Angeles and was successful in overturning the overbroad and unconstitutional ordinance, allowing lunch trucks to operate without the impediment of these quasi-criminal sanctions imposed by the City. This clinic led to a relationship with the Asociacion de Loncheros, whose members spoke with her about the additional challenges many of them faced as undocumented members of the community. Mrs. Perez took on a clerkship with a well-established immigration firm and that opportunity turned into her first official job as an attorney. In 2013, Mrs. Perez started her own firm and has been practicing in all areas of immigration law ever since. She specializes in removal defense, with a particular emphasis in detainees and non-citizens with extensive criminal histories. Mrs. Perez expanded her practice to include criminal defense and post-conviction relief motions for non-citizens. Mrs. Perez represents clients throughout the United States and who come from South America, Central America, Mexico, Africa, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. She has taken on very complicated cases and has successfully obtained citizenship, residency, and bonds for hundreds of individuals.