About

Skylar Bader is an immigration attorney based in New York City. Licensed in New York and New Jersey, she received a Juris Doctor with Distinction from McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California (affiliated with the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA). Originally from Tennessee, she studied political science, theatrical set design, and linguistics at the College of Charleston in South Carolina before teaching English in the French public school system for a year. She trained as a mediator for legal disputes under the nationally recognized mediation expert, Michael T. Colatrella, Jr. She has been published in the Commentator, FrontPage Magazine, the American Thinker, and three times in the McGeorge Law Review. She is currently studying Hebrew and religious texts at Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. 

When not lawyering, she reads a lot (follow me on Goodreads), blogs, blogs some more, is writing the first draft of two non-fiction books, studies dog training with her two dogs, and is trying to learn yoga.

Memberships:

New York County Lawyers' Association

Jewish Lawyers' Guild

Phi Delta Phi

Phi Sigma Pi

Languages:
Spanish (Limited working proficiency)
French (Limited working proficiency)
Hebrew (Beginner)

Honors:
The Traynor Society
Dean's Honor List, 2008-2009 and 2009-2010
Top 5 Brief, First Annual First-Year Moot Court Competition, Spring 2009
Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society
Sigma Delta Pi National Hispanic Honor Society
Selected participant, International Youth Leadership Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, January 2007
Selected participant, International Humanist Youth Organization International Conference, Vijayawada, India, November 2006
Honorable Mention, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Short Play Competition, Spring 2005