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The Ellis Porter Team

 

 

 

Our Attorneys

 

 

Marc A. Topoleski

 

Shaju J. Jacob

 

Lisa Tehlirian


 

 

 

MARC A. TOPOLESKI, Partner

 

Phone:  248-519-9900

 

Email:  marc.topoleski@ellisporter.com

Marc is a Managing Attorney and Co-Founder of Ellis Porter with over thirteen years of immigration law experience.  Prior to founding Ellis Porter, Marc served as in-house immigration counsel to a large information technology consulting firm and has also directed the immigration departments of two of the largest law firms in Michigan.  He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and also served as the Vice President of the Detroit Chapter of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE), an entrepreneurial networking and mentoring organization.  Marc speaks regularly to professional associations, companies and cultural interest groups on a variety of immigration issues.  He has also authored and contributed to numerous articles addressing a variety of business and individual immigration topics in publications including Michigan Lawyers Weekly, HR Magazine (a publication of the Society for Human Resource Management), Bender’s Labor & Employment Bulletin, the Indus Business Journal, Miindia.com and USA Today.

Undergraduate Education:  Michigan State University; East Lansing, Michigan

Law School Education:  Vanderbilt University; Nashville, Tennessee


 

 

 

SHAJU J. JACOB, Partner

 

Phone:  248-519-9900

 

Email:  shaju.jacob@ellisporter.com

Shaju is a Partner at Ellis Porter with over seven years experience practicing immigration law.  Prior to joining Ellis Porter, Shaju was a corporate immigration attorney with the largest law firm in Michigan.  He has also managed the employment-based green card department of a mid-size immigration boutique firm and served as in-house counsel to an information technology consulting company.  Shaju speaks regularly to professional associations, companies and cultural interest groups on a variety of immigration issues, and has served as a part-time instructor at Baker College.  Shaju is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and serves as a Board Member of the South Asian Bar Association of Michigan.

Undergraduate Education:  Wayne State University; Detroit, Michigan

Law School Education:  Wayne State University; Detroit, Michigan


 

 

 

LISA TEHLIRIAN, Of Counsel

 

Phone:  248-519-9900

 

Email:  lisa.tehlirian@ellisporter.com   

Lisa is an Of Counsel attorney at Ellis Porter with over five years of experience in immigration law.  After completing law school, Ms. Tehlirian was accepted into the U.S. Department of Justice, Attorney General's Honors Program where she worked as the Judicial Law Clerk/Attorney Advisor for the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), U.S. Immigration Court in Detroit, Michigan. In this capacity, she researched novel immigration issues and drafted legal memoranda and judicial opinions for the Immigration Judges. Prior to joining Ellis Porter, Lisa worked as an immigration attorney at a Metropolitan Detroit immigration law firm, where she had a lead role in managing the firm's individual and family immigration services group.  Lisa specializes in individual and family based immigration law, inadmissibility and removability issues, naturalization/citizenship, and employment based immigration law.

Lisa is a member of the
American Immigration Lawyers Association, State Bar of Michigan, and Women's Lawyers Association of Michigan.

   Undergraduate Education:  University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan
   Law School Education:
 
University of Detroit Mercy; Detroit, Michigan


 

 

Our Staff

 

 

 

JENA HENGSTEBECK

 

Phone:  248-519-9900

 

Email:  jena.hengstebeck@ellisporter.com

 

 

 

LUCIA HERNANDEZ

 

Phone:  248-519-9900

 

Email:  lucia.hernandez@ellisporter.com

 

 

 

RUBY VARGHESE

 

Phone:  248-519-9900

 

Email:  ruby.varghese@ellisporter.com

 

 

 

SHERRY WEIMERT

 

Phone:  248-519-9900

 

Email:  sherry.weimert@ellisporter.com

 

 

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