Lina Baroudi immigrated from Syria with her family in 1983 and speaks Arabic. She obtained a bachelor of arts in sociology from San Francisco State University, in which she focused on the intersection of queer theory and postcolonial studies. Lina has been with the firm since May 2002 and enjoys working on criminal and federal litigation cases. In her capacity as the supervising paralegal of the firm, Lina has assisted Mr. Jobe in the preparation of many cases before the Court of Appeals and in the district courts of California, including Li v. Ashcroft, 356 F.3d 1153 (9th Cir. 2004)(en banc), Cheema v. Ashcroft, 383 F.3d 848 (9th Cir. 2004), and Maharaj v. Gonzales, 450 F.3d 961 (9th Cir. 2006)(en banc). An evening student at Golden Gate University School of Law, Lina is working towards a J.D.