Recognitions

Gasparian Spivey Immigration has been recognized in New Orleans and around the state of Louisiana for our exceptional work on immigration cases.

• 2021: Kathleen Gasparian and Leah Spivey ranked as Top Lawyer by New Orleans Magazine
• 2020: Kathleen Gasparian and Leah Spivey ranked as Top Lawyers by New Orleans Magazine
• 2017: Kathleen Gasparian and Leah Spivey ranked as Top Lawyers by New Orleans Magazine
• 2016: Kathleen Gasparian awarded Gillis Long Poverty Law Center Public Service Award
• 2015: Kathleen Gasparian recipient of National Organization for Women, Olga Vives Award, 2015 & Leah Spivey selected as Super Lawyers Rising Star
• 2014: Kathleen Gasparian recipient of Super Lawyers Pro Bono Award
• 2012: Kathleen Gasparian named among 40 Under 40 by Gambit Weekly

Gasparian Spivey in the News

• Associate Press, April 20, 2021: “This is a case where you have an employer who has expended a lot of effort recruiting someone and they’ve been caught up in this morass, this mess of bureaucracy,” [Leah] Spivey said Tuesday.
• Gambit, March 6, 2017: "There are so many people who are afraid of what's to come," said Kathleen Gasparian, a New Orleans attorney whose firm deals solely with immigration issues.
• The Advocate, January 29, 2017: "[Kathleen Gasparian] started having conversations with her clients earlier in the presidential election about what Trump’s immigration policies could mean for them."
• The Armenian Weekly, June 26, 2015: "Kathleen Gasparian, an American-Armenian immigration attorney from New Orleans, received the Olga Vives Award for her pro bono work with undocumented kids from Central America."
• New Orleans City Business, September 16, 2014: "The large influx of cases has created what immigration attorney Kathleen Gasparian describes as a “supply and demand problem.” Two months ago, she and her colleagues at Ware Gasparian created the Pro Bono Juvenile Project (PB&J) to find qualified interpreters and attorneys willing to take on these cases. The project has grown to a network of more than 120 volunteers, including 60 attorneys, interpreters, government workers and judges."