Partner

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Education

University of Minnesota Law School, 1989, J.D., cum laude
The Colorado College, 1983, B.A., Political Economics, cum laude

Mary Jane Weaver is a founding partner of Weaver Schlenger Mazel LLP, and has devoted her professional legal career to providing immigration counseling to companies of all sizes, across a broad spectrum of industries, including high-tech, financial services, telecommunications, engineering, and animation.

Ms. Weaver has counseled numerous start-ups and privately held companies in their quest to employ the best and the brightest, and ensured that these companies remained in compliance through a myriad of corporate change, including reorganization, growth and downsizing, entity changes via public offering, and merger and acquisition. She has worked with General Counsel and Human Resource Departments nationally and internationally, assisting them in navigating a variety of immigration challenges.

Characterized by her peers in a local survey as a top “go-to” attorney in the immigration field, the Chambers and Partners USA 2009 guide named Mary Jane Weaver one of the top corporate immigration lawyers in California, noting her "top quality, on-the-mark" work for corporations. Ms. Weaver is frequently asked to speak and write on immigration issues, particularly in the complex area of labor certification. She has received the highest “AV” rating from the premier attorney rating organization, Martindale Hubbell. For more details on Mary Jane Weaver's bar admissions, association memberships, presentations and community service, please click here.

Ms. Weaver was first introduced to immigration law in law school. She saw it as a culmination of all she deemed worthwhile: constitutional law, business law, family law, criminal law, and human rights. Following a clerkship with the Immigration Court in Miami and San Francisco, she entered private practice. Immigration issues continue to be her professional and personal passion. She and her husband, a naturalized U.S. citizen and the CEO of an Internet software company, have two sons and live in San Francisco.