Attorneys

Raissa Morris is a Colombian immigrant who arrived in the United States as a child and became a naturalized citizen when she reached adulthood. She earned her Juris Doctor with honors and a specialization in International Law from the University of the Pacific-McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, CA in 2012. Before studying law, she graduated with honors in Business Administration with a minor in Accounting from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, TX in 2008.

After graduation, Attorney Morris worked at the prestigious law firm Considine, Sorensen & Trujillo (2012–2014), focusing on general immigration services and deportation cases. Before becoming an attorney, she also served as a legal assistant at the same firm.

During her last two years at McGeorge, she volunteered at the university’s legal clinic, making history by winning the school’s first-ever asylum case. Raissa prepared and argued the case before the Immigration Court in San Francisco, earning special recognition from the presiding Federal Judge.

She later received a scholarship from the Sacramento Bar Association’s Minority Program and worked as a legal assistant at Liberty Mutual Insurance during the summer. She also worked at the Sacramento District Attorney’s Office and as a research assistant to Professor Raquel Aldana.

Her specialties include family-based immigration petitions and waivers, U visas, T visas, VAWA, DACA, deportation defense, and appeals before the BIA and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She has successfully won multiple deportation and asylum cases.

Raissa continues to serve her community by volunteering and giving presentations at organizations such as the Mexican Consulate in Sacramento, UC Davis Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and WEAVE. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), licensed in California, and admitted to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Proud of her roots, she continues to speak and write Spanish fluently.

Courtney Gamez grew up in Gilroy, California. She began volunteering at the Santa Cruz County Immigration Project in 2011 and discovered her passion for the immigrant community while building fluency in Spanish. She graduated with honors from CSU Monterey Bay in 2013 with a B.A. in Spanish Language and Linguistics before attending McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. During law school, she studied abroad in Guatemala and served as a Staff Writer for the McGeorge Law Review, where she published her first article on the California DREAM Loan program for undocumented students.

In 2015, she began working with Morris Law Group as a law clerk and transitioned to practicing as an attorney in 2018. She now focuses on humanitarian and family-based immigration cases, including T visas, U visas, hardship waivers, VAWA, and other complex immigration matters.

Courtney has volunteered with the McGeorge Immigration Clinic as both a student and an attorney and continues to provide free consultations at the Mexican Consulate in Sacramento. In her free time, she enjoys camping and spending time at the lake or river with her husband and three dogs.