MyRights Immigration Law Firm

Focus and practice areas

Immigration law defines the work at MyRights Immigration Law Firm in Denver, Colorado. The services page groups a wide set of filings under that single field. At the base of the list are adjustment of status and lawful permanent residence, the steps that move an eligible person toward a green card without leaving the country.

Waivers make up a second group. The firm lists waivers of inadmissibility, provisional waivers, and public charge questions, each of which addresses a reason the government might otherwise deny a case. Alongside these, the firm files VAWA petitions for people harmed by an abusive relative and U visas for crime victims who cooperate with law enforcement. Parole in place appears on the same list, a form of relief that often reaches military families.

The rest of the menu covers the range a full immigration office tends to carry. DACA renewals, naturalization for people ready to become citizens, and nonimmigrant visas for temporary stays all appear. Deportation defense and federal litigation round out the services, which means the firm handles both the paperwork side and the courtroom side of immigration law. The home page draws out four of these areas, lawful permanent residence, waivers, U visas, and nonimmigrant visas, as the first things it wants a visitor to see. In my opinion, a menu this wide lets one client with several overlapping problems bring all of them to a single office.

Who the services point to

The list of practice areas maps onto a clear set of clients. Green-card applicants show up under adjustment of status and provisional waivers. Survivors of abuse fit the VAWA work, and crime victims who assist police fit the U visa work.

People already in removal proceedings match the deportation defense and federal litigation categories. DACA recipients and green-card holders ready for citizenship find their steps under DACA renewals and naturalization. Read together, the services describe a firm set up for both routine filings and contested cases in front of a judge.

How the team is built

The firm's team page names seven members, and the titles place partners and associates around the two founders. Shawn D. Meade is the Managing Partner, and Nalini Meade is the Office Director. Between them they started the firm in 2011, and both still hold named roles at the top of the roster.

Three partners fill out the senior group. John E. Pearce, Zach Young, and Smarika Thapa each carry a partner title. Nathan Wagstaff and Martin Tenorio round out the team as associate attorneys, which gives the firm a layer of newer lawyers under the partners.

The hire dates trace how the firm grew. John Pearce joined in 2012, a year after the firm opened its doors. Zach Young and Smarika Thapa both came aboard in 2016. All three partners arrived within the firm's first five years, which points to a senior group that has worked together for a while. A team page that names each member and dates the partners' arrivals gives a reader concrete detail to work from.

Where the firm began

Shawn D. Meade and Nalini Meade formed MyRights Immigration Law Firm on January 30, 2011. Shawn Meade attended the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, a law school in the same city where the firm now works. He began representing immigrants once he received his license, and the firm's history says he appeared in Immigration Court on the day it was issued.

That founding date puts more than a decade of work behind the firm in one city. The office that opened in 2011 grew into a partnership with associates across the years that followed, and the hire timeline lines up with that account. Nalini Meade's role as Office Director rounds out a leadership split between legal work and office management. As a reviewer, I read the day-one court appearance as a marker of how Shawn Meade approached the work from the start.

Criminal defense within the service list

Many immigration cases turn on a prior criminal charge, and the firm keeps criminal defense on its own list of services. That overlap matters in practical terms, because a guilty plea in a state court can change what happens in an immigration case. The firm lists criminal defense on the same services page as its immigration categories, and a client facing charges and immigration consequences at once can bring both matters to the same firm.

Language and offices

Staff at the firm speak English and Spanish, and the home page notes other languages among the team. For immigration clients, shared language often decides whether a first meeting reaches anything useful, so this detail carries real weight. The firm puts it on the home page, where new clients tend to look first.

MyRights runs two offices in Denver. One is on Federal Boulevard. The firm names a flagship location on Colfax Avenue, which gives clients a second place in the city to meet the team. Both offices operate under the same firm the Meades started in 2011.