Michael S. Terry, Associate Attorney,

Michael S. Terry has been licensed by the State Bar of Nevada since 2010. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California Los Angeles in 1989. In 1990 he received a Master of Philosophy Degree from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. In 1994 he received his Juris Doctorate Degree from Ohio Northern University.

From 1995 to 2010 he was employed as a litigation paralegal for both plaintiff and defense law firms in Los Angeles County and Orange County, California. In those roles, he was heavily involved in the prosecution and defense of personal injury claims and insurance bad faith claims with a focus of their preparation for arbitration hearings and trials.

From 2010 to 2017, he was self-employed and practiced consumer protection law in Las Vegas, Nevada. In that role, he engaged in supervised mediations with commercial lenders to modify residential mortgages as well as foreclosure defense and bankruptcy law on behalf of individuals and small businesses.

He was employed at United States Citizenship and Immigration Services from 2017 to 2018 as an Asylum Officer where he adjudicated asylum cases and from 2018 to 2020 was employed as an Associate Immigration Attorney at the Matian Firm in Los Angeles, California where he engaged in appeals to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and the reopening of closed cases to apply for adjustment of status. As an attorney at Abusharar & Associates, he is engaged in litigation against the federal government to compel it to provide immigration remedies that are overdue on behalf of individual applicants.

He is married with 2 children and resides in Orange County, California.