About me
Nareeneh Sohbatian is Winston & Strawn LLP’s Pro Bono Counsel - Immigration. Ms. Sohbatian identifies needs and creates and implements procedures to address these needs in over 200 active immigration cases nationwide and oversees Pro Bono efforts in the California. She provides training, substantive supervision, and in-house mentorship to the firm’s attorneys in their pro bono immigration matters. She provides representation to clients in affirmative and defensive immigration cases, amici briefs, federal litigation, research, and special projects.
Ms. Sohbatian is the Vice Chair of the American Immigration Law Association’s (AILA) National Pro Bono Committee, she is a Southern California AILA Pro Bono liaison, and a Commissioner of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration. She has written and presented on pro bono and substantive immigration law. In 2019, Ms. Sohbatian was recognized as a National Law Review Immigration Trail Blazer.
Before joining Winston & Strawn LLP in 2016, Ms. Sohbatian was the managing attorney at Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project, a non-profit law firm in Los Angeles, California. There, she developed a streamlining process to improve the management of hundreds of cases, trained and supervised attorneys and paralegals, and represented unaccompanied minors in immigration removal defense cases. From 2012 to 2020, Ms. Sohbatian was an adjunct at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles where she worked with the school’s Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court teams. Ms. Sohbatian was also a pro bono attorney with the school’s International Human Rights Clinic. Following law school, she was the second Dickran Tevrizian Fellow and subsequently a staff attorney at Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, where she managed health, public benefits, expungement, and employment cases in English, Spanish, and Armenian. Ms. Sohbatian received a B.A., cum laude, from University of California, Los Angeles in 2006, and a J.D. from Loyola Law School in 2011.
