Sean Richard Olender

Sean Richard Olender is a State Bar of California Certified Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law with over two decades of legal experience. Serving clients throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Central Coast, he advises both individuals and corporations on complex immigration matters. His comprehensive practice encompasses business immigration, PERM labor certifications, H-1B visas, EB-5 investor visas, deportation defense, federal court appeals, mandamus actions, and humanitarian relief such as DACA and asylum.

In addition to his immigration practice, Mr. Olender has extensive experience handling employment law matters, representing both employers and employees in wage-and-hour claims, sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and whistleblower disputes. His academic contributions include serving as an adjunct professor of law at the University of San Diego School of Law from 2012 to 2015, where he taught upper-division immigration law. He earned his law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1997 following his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Mr. Olender’s practice philosophy centers on combining deep substantive knowledge across both immigration and employment law to provide cohesive, pragmatic solutions. By leveraging a modern, paperless office infrastructure, he delivers streamlined case management and dedicated representation designed to navigate complicated administrative and judicial systems effectively.