Lincoln-Goldfinch Law

Focus and practice areas

Immigration is the whole of this firm's practice, run out of an office in Austin, Texas. The firm also uses the names LGL and Abogados de Inmigracion, the second aimed at its Spanish-speaking clients. Lincoln-Goldfinch Law takes clients in all 50 states and offers virtual representation. That means a person can work with its attorneys by video and phone from anywhere in the country.

The range of matters is wide within immigration. On the family side, the firm handles I-130 petitions, green cards, adjustment of status and naturalization. These are the steps most people go through to bring a relative over or to settle their own status. The firm also takes employment-based cases and temporary work visas, which sit on the business side of the same field.

A second group of work covers humanitarian and defensive matters. The firm handles asylum and refugee cases, VAWA petitions, U Visas and T Visas. It also represents people in deportation defense, immigrant detention and immigration appeals. In my opinion that mix is worth noting, because one firm can handle both the application stage and a later courtroom fight when a case turns that way.

How the team is built

Four attorneys are named on the firm's site. Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch is the founding attorney and chief executive. Lizbeth Lopez and Lucia Marquez are listed as attorneys, and Eduardo Flores is of counsel, a role that usually means a lawyer who advises the firm on a steady basis while sitting outside the partnership.

The firm describes its wider staff as a bilingual group of attorneys, paralegals and client-care workers. Many of them are immigrants or first-generation Americans. That detail carries weight in immigration work, where a client often has to explain a hard personal history in a second language. In practice, that means intake, translation and paperwork can happen in a client's own language before a lawyer ever files anything.

The founder's route into immigration law

Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch started this work as a law student at the University of Texas. She joined the school's Immigration Clinic because she speaks Spanish. Her first assignment sent her to the Hutto detention center.

There she met a family of asylum seekers who were being held, and she took on their case. It ended in a successful asylum result. That early case set the direction for the firm she later built. Kate has appeared on the Super Lawyers list every year since 2019.

As a reviewer, I put some weight on where a founder learned the work. A law-school clinic puts a student on live cases under supervision, often for people who cannot pay for counsel. That is a demanding place to start, and it fits a firm that lists detention and asylum among its core work.

How these immigration cases tend to move

The categories the firm names each run on their own track, and a short map shows what the work involves. A family green card usually starts with an I-130 petition to prove the relationship. It then moves to either adjustment of status inside the United States or consular processing abroad. Naturalization comes later, once a green card holder meets the residence rules and passes the civics and English tests.

Asylum runs on a different clock. A claim can be filed affirmatively with the immigration service, or raised as a defense once removal proceedings have begun. Both routes need a detailed account of what the person fled and why. U Visas and T Visas apply to people who have survived certain crimes or trafficking and who help law enforcement. Both carry long waits, because Congress caps how many are granted each year.

Deportation defense and appeals sit at the contested end of the field. These matters play out in immigration court and then, if needed, before the Board of Immigration Appeals. Cases like these often turn on filing deadlines and the record built early. That is one reason people look for counsel well before a hearing date arrives. VAWA gives another path. It lets some spouses, children and parents file a petition on their own.

What the record shows

The firm states that it has helped over 10,000 families. As a reviewer, I read a number like that as a measure of volume, a count of the families the firm has served across its years of work. The figure fits a firm that reaches clients in every state by video and phone. It sits alongside Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch's Super Lawyers listings, which have run each year since 2019.

The facts stay consistent across the firm's pages. Lincoln-Goldfinch Law is a bilingual immigration firm in Austin with four named attorneys. The site names Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, Lizbeth Lopez, Lucia Marquez and Eduardo Flores as the lawyers behind that work. It handles family petitions, humanitarian visas and court cases, and it works with clients in every state through virtual representation.

Office contact and opening times

Lincoln-Goldfinch Law lists its street address as 1005 E 40th St, Austin, TX. The published telephone number is (855) 502-0555. These details provide a single physical destination and a firmwide line for initial contact. The address is also useful for clients who need to send documents or confirm which office holds their matter.

The stated weekday hours are 9AM to 5PM from Monday through Friday. Each weekday follows the same eight-hour schedule, so the opening and closing times do not change during the workweek. The office also lists Saturday hours from 10AM to 2PM. Sunday is the only day marked closed.

How the weekly schedule is arranged

The listed schedule amounts to 44 office hours each week. Forty of those hours fall on weekdays, with another four on Saturday. The Saturday session begins one hour later than the weekday opening and ends three hours earlier than the usual weekday closing time. After 2PM on Saturday, the next stated opening is 9AM on Monday.

For this reviewer, the Saturday block is the most useful part of the schedule. It gives clients a stated contact period outside the Monday through Friday routine. That may matter for someone whose own working hours overlap with the firm's weekday availability. The shorter Saturday window also makes the timing clear: it occupies the middle of the day rather than matching the full weekday period.

The consistency of the weekday schedule is another practical detail. Clients do not have to track a different opening time for a particular weekday. Calls made during the published Monday through Friday window fall within the same daily pattern, while Saturday follows its own four-hour period. Taken together, the address, telephone number and stated hours give readers the basic information needed to choose when and where to make direct contact with the Austin office.