Linda Hanten is a partner in the Washington, DC law firm of Harrigan & Hanten, PC. She has been engaged in the private practice of law since 1984, representing individuals, nonprofit organizations and businesses in organization development, administrative proceedings, and trial and appellate litigation. Areas of practice include Immigration (Business and Individual) and Federal Employment (Merit Systems Protection Board and EEO).
Ms. Hanten has extensive experience in business and employment related immigration matters and represents clients in non-immigrant and immigrant visa matters before the Department of Labor, Department of State, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. She also represents individuals in humanitarian and family based immigration matters before the U.S. immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and U.S. Consulates overseas.
Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Hanten served as Associate Counsel, California Rural Legal Assistance, Staff Attorney with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and Deputy General Counsel for the Legal Services Corporation in Washington, DC. She has also served as Acting Chair and Vice-Chair of the District of Columbia Human Rights Commission, the state agency charged with enforcement of anti-discrimination laws and has served as hearing examiner for the agency, making recommended decisions to the Commission in the most complex matters brought before the Commission. She also served as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley, teaching classes in civil rights law. She continues to participate in seminars and lectures on immigration law, employment law, and related subjects.
