About

Diane M. Butler
Shareholder
butlerd@lanepowell.com
206.223.7715

Diane Butler focuses her practice on business immigration and manages the Firm’s immigration and Canada practices. Diane graduated with honors from the University of Wyoming. After spending time in Shanghai, China, working for the Canadian law firm of Bull, Housser & Tupper, she received her law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Diane is rated “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, which identifies a lawyer with very high to preeminent legal ability, recommended by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Immigration, and was named as a “Top Business Immigration Lawyer” in Seattle Business magazine, as well as a “Top Lawyer” by her peers in Seattle Magazine. She is a member of the national American Immigration Lawyers Association (“AILA”) liaison committee for Customs and Border Protection issues. Her remarks have been quoted in The New York Times, and other publications, and she has been interviewed on KING-5 TV news.

Practice Areas

• Chair, Canada Practice Group
• Chair, Immigration Practice Group
• International Business
• Diversity Committee

Professional Associations

• American Immigration Lawyers Association
  • Board of Governors, 2011-present
  • Chair, Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection Committee, 2005-2008
• Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle, Advisory Committee, 2005-present
• Gage Academy of Art, Advisory Board, 2003-present

Education

• George Washington University, National Law Center (J.D., 1992)
• University of Wyoming (B.A., cum laude, 1983)

Bar Admissions

• Washington
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• U.S. Court of International Trade

Margaret D. Stock
Counsel to the Firm
stockm@lanepowell.com
907.264.3323

Margaret Stock focuses her practice on immigration and citizenship law. She is a nationally known expert on immigration and national security laws, and has testified regularly before Congressional committees on immigration, homeland security and military matters. As a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Military Police, U.S. Army Reserve, Margaret has extensive experience with U.S. military issues. She has also worked as a professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and she currently serves as an adjunct instructor at the University of Alaska. Margaret is a member of the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration. She regularly authors articles on military-related immigration issues, and is well-versed on “parole in place” for military family members.

Practice Areas

• Business
• Immigration

Professional Associations

• Alaska Bar Association
  • Member, Alaska Rules of Professional Conduct Committee (1998-2001)
  • Founding Chair, Immigration Law Section
• American Bar Association
  • Member, Commission on Immigration (2008-Present)
  • Co-chair, Immigration Litigation Committee (2005-2008)
  • Co-chair, Joint Subcommittee on International Refugee Law of the Immigration & Naturalization Member, International Human Rights Committee (2006-2007)
  • Co-chair and Vice Chair, Immigration & Naturalization Committee (2004-2008)
• American Immigration Lawyers Association
  • Member (Present)
  • Chair, Border Security Advocacy Committee (2005-2006)
• New York City Bar Association
  • Member (Present)
  • Chair, International Security Affairs Committee (2006-2010)
• Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy
• Republican National Lawyers Association
• President, Harvard Club of Alaska (Present)
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation (2005-Present)
• Member, Council on Foreign Relations Immigration Policy Task Force (2008)
• Editorial Board, Bender’s Immigration Bulletin (2007-Present)

Education

• U.S. Army War College (Masters of Strategic Studies, 2006)
• Harvard Kennedy School of Government (M.P.A., 2001)
• Harvard Law School (J.D., with honors, 1992)
• Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges (A.B., with honors in Government, 1985)

Bar Admissions

• Alaska
• U.S. District Court, District of Alaska
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Andrew J. Stevenson
Attorney
stevensona@lanepowell.com
206.223.7046

Andrew Stevenson focuses his practice on business immigration law. His immigration practice includes experience in business immigration, E-2 investor visas, waivers, admissibility issues, analyses of criminal convictions in relation to U.S. immigration laws, consular processing, removal defense, complex family immigration, naturalization and citizenship, and special immigrant juvenile cases. Andrew has also earned certification as a specialist in immigration and nationality law from the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.

Practice Areas

• Immigration

Professional Associations

• Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association
  • Vice Chair, National U.S. Customs and Border Protection Liaison Committee (2011-Present)
  • Member, National U.S. Customs and Border Protection Liaison Committee (2009-2010)
  • Member, Southern California U.S. Customs and Border Protection Liaison (2007-2010)

Education

• University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law (J.D.)
  • Arizona Law Review
  • Perry S. Rogers Scholar
  • S. Thomas Chandler Public Service Award
• Truman State University (B.A., magna cum laude)

Bar Admissions

• Washington
• California
• U.S. District Court, Central District of California