McCown & Evans Partner Kelly McCown and Senior Associate Attorney Lisa Palter Honored as 2019-2020 Super Lawyers

McCown & Evans Partner Kelly McCown and Senior Associate Attorney Lisa Palter have been awarded Super Lawyers recognition for 2019-2020. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.

Partner Kelly McCown is one of fewer than 250 attorneys certified as a Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization and has received the highest possible peer review rating (“AV Preeminent”) for her legal ability. Kelly has been twice named one of the “Top 50 Female Super Lawyers” in Northern California across all legal specialties and has been honored every year since 2004 as a “Northern California Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics Magazine and Super Lawyers Magazine. She has again been honored as a “Northern California Super Lawyer” in 2019-2020.

Lisa Palter is a Senior Associate Attorney at McCown & Evans LLP and has been active in the field of immigration law since 1988. Lisa’s employment-based immigration expertise includes obtaining nonimmigrant and immigrant visas for prominent artists, entertainers, athletes and coaches from across the globe and has represented Olympic and World Champion athletes, Grammy Award-winning musicians, Academy Award-winning special effects creators and prominent businesspeople and scientists. She was named a Top Attorney of North America in the 2017-2018 edition of Who’s Who Directories and has been honored as a “Northern California Super Lawyer” in 2019-2020 by Law & Politics Magazine and Super Lawyers Magazine.