Nagell Law, PLLC

What the firm handles

Nagell Law, PLLC is an immigration law firm in St. Paul, Minnesota. Its work sits inside one field, and the field is immigration. That focus shows in the range of matters the firm lists.

The practice covers family-based permanent residence and adjustment of status. It also handles consular processing for relatives applying from outside the United States. Employment-based petitions round out the family and work side of the docket.

On the harder end, the firm takes deportation and removal defense. It appears in immigration court for clients facing removal proceedings. That courtroom work sits alongside U.S. citizenship and naturalization applications, which is often the calmer end of the same journey. In my opinion, a firm that carries both the paperwork and the courtroom side gives a client one place to go as a case shifts.

Who runs the practice

Peter M. Nagell founded the firm in 2015. He is a Minnesota native. He attended William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul and earned his Juris Doctor cum laude.

Before opening the firm, he worked as an associate attorney at a local immigration law firm from 2012 to 2015. That earlier role involved family-based petitions, removal defense, adjustments of status, citizenship applications, U-visas, and DACA applications. So the founder built the firm on work he had already been doing for three years.

Peter Nagell is admitted to practice in Minnesota. He speaks Spanish and German in addition to English. For a client whose first language is Spanish, that means talking to the attorney directly rather than through a relay.

A single-attorney structure

The site names one attorney, and that shapes how the firm reads. A client works with the person whose name is on the door. There is no handoff to a junior associate after the first meeting.

Peter Nagell also states that he limits the number of cases he takes so he can stay responsive. As a reviewer, I read that as a deliberate trade. A smaller caseload caps how many clients the firm can serve at once, and in return each client gets more of the attorney's attention. Immigration matters run for months and sometimes years, so steady access to the same lawyer has real value.

Language access and who the firm serves

Services are offered in English and Spanish. The firm notes "se habla español" on its home and contact pages. For immigration clients, language is rarely a side detail. It decides whether someone can explain their own history to their own lawyer.

The firm represents immigrants, families, and employers. That mix tracks the practice areas. Families come for green cards and citizenship. Employers come for work-based petitions. Individuals in removal proceedings come for defense in court.

Because the founder handled U-visas and DACA applications in his prior role, clients with those needs may find a lawyer who has touched that terrain before. I note this from his stated experience rather than from any current service the site advertises, so a client should confirm scope at the first meeting.

What the record shows and what it does not

The firm's public material is straightforward about the work and the person doing it. It gives a founding year, a law school, a prior employer with dates, and a clear list of practice areas. That is more grounding than many single-attorney sites offer.

The site does not publish case outcomes, settlement figures, or client counts. In immigration work, individual results depend heavily on facts and on agency decisions outside any lawyer's control, so the absence of a scoreboard is not a mark against the firm. It simply means a prospective client should judge fit from a consultation and from the attorney's answers, not from advertised numbers.

The firm keeps a Facebook page. Beyond that, its online footprint is modest, which fits a practice built around one attorney and a capped caseload.

How the firm reads to a prospective client

Nagell Law presents as a focused immigration practice with one experienced attorney at the center. The founder's background runs from family petitions through removal defense, and that breadth within a single field is the firm's main selling point.

In my opinion, the firm will suit a client who wants direct contact with the lawyer handling the case and who values Spanish or German language access. Someone with a large employment-immigration program spanning many hires might want to ask early about capacity, given the stated limit on caseload. For a family, an individual naturalizing, or a person facing removal, the structure lines up well with the need.

A first consultation is the right place to confirm current fees, timelines, and whether the firm still handles specific matters like U-visas or DACA. The facts on the site give a clear starting picture, and the rest is a conversation the firm invites through its contact page.