Laily Boutaleb

Laily Boutaleb is an immigration attorney. She is the managing attorney of the Law Offices of Laily Boutaleb, a Los Angeles-based law firm founded in 2013.

Boutaleb specializes in EB-1 visas (individuals of extraordinary ability), as well as investment visas such as E-2 and EB-5. She also works with clients on national interest waivers, family-based petitions, naturalization applications, student visas and asylum cases. She has completed more than 200 successful EB-1 petitions, including ones for Oscar winners, Olympians, professional athletes, researchers, scientists and entrepreneurs.

Boutaleb also practices family law, bankruptcy filings and litigation (adversary proceedings), consumer protection, copyright law and employment law. She works with a team of experienced attorneys and immigration professionals internationally who have more than 500 approved cases combined in EB-1 as well as numerous other non-immigrant and immigrant visa categories.

Prior to founding her practice, Boutaleb was an associate attorney at M. Jones & Associates, a judge advocate for a U.S. Army Reserve Component in California and certified law clerk in the Orange County district attorney’s office. She also was a corporate manager at The Bascom Group, a real estate private equity firm in Irvine, California, for six years.

Boutaleb earned her Juris Doctorate from Western State College of Law in 2010 and a bachelor’s degree in political science from University of California, Irvine. She also completed Middle East studies at UCLA.

Boutaleb is a member of the American Bar Association, the Orange County Bar Association, Los Angeles County Bar Association and American Immigration Lawyers Association. She is a recipient of pro bono honors from the federal court system and the State Bar of California.

Boutaleb speaks Farsi and English.