Regina Knoll Bio

With two decades of immigration law experience, Regina Knoll represents a diverse group of people and business entities. Ms. Knoll’s experience includes representing U.S. and foreign companies spanning across all sizes and industries, start-up entrepreneurs, foreign investors, professionals, people of extraordinary ability in the arts, sciences, business, and education, religious workers, medical professionals, performers and athletes, and family members of U.S. citizens and residents. Taking a collaborative and responsive approach to her immigration practice, Ms. Knoll works closely with client companies’ HR professionals, talent partners, corporate legal counsels, managers, and employees. Further, she assists with immigration matters pertaining to visits to the United States for business and pleasure, temporary and permanent employment, and study, training, and exchange in the United States. Before joining HFM, Ms. Knoll founded and served as the principal attorney at the Law and Effect Group. Previously, she practiced immigration law at a San Diego-based immigration law firm and worked as in-house counsel at DiscTech, where she handled a variety of transactional matters in such areas as intellectual property law, contract law, employment law, and immigration law. Originally from Austria and a native German-speaker, she is one of the preeminent immigration attorneys for German companies with subsidiaries in Southern California and beyond.