Law Office of Sara L. Caplan

The Law Office of Sara L. Caplan
We are a full service Law Office focusing on Criminal Defense and Immigration matters. We realize the importance and the long lasting impact of such matters on your future, your career, and your family. Knowing the trauma and crises our clients experience on a daily basis, we respect and involve every affected individual in the process of their case. We give each client high priority access (24 hours) and treat each client with dignity and respect.

Please Call: 310-550-5877

Firm Profile / Sara L. Caplan, ESQ.
Sara Caplan is a highly experienced criminal defense attorney (26 years). She also handles many immigration matters. She was for 11 years Of Counsel to Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro; and was co-counsel with Robert Shapiro for 14 years. She is a trial attorney, specializing in criminal defense (state and federal); professional administrative hearings (e.g., medical, dental, nursing, and real estate boards) and many types of immigration matters.

Post 9/11, Immigration procedures have been drastically impeded, especially when criminal convictions or arrests are involved. Criminal matters have a major impact on one's immigration ability and status. Ms. Caplan specializes in representing individuals in such matters with extremely favorable outcomes.

Ms. Caplan has been involved in many complex, multi-defendant, and high-profile cases, which have proceeded administratively and in state and federal courts. She has always handled a high volume of cases and has extensive courtroom experience. Many cases have involved very complicated white-collar criminal fraud schemes, scientific evidence such as DNA and toxic environmental waste matters, as well as psychiatric and sociological issues. She maintains excellent relationships with many judges, prosecutors and private attorneys.

Ms. Caplan has handled many types of immigration matters, including alien petitions for temporary and permanent residency (based on marriage, labor, special ability, asylum and Torture Convention claims, etc.) and adjustments (through the Service and in Immigration Court). She has successfully litigated several Immigration court cases, mainly asylum and withholding of removal cases for immigrants originating in the republics of the former Soviet Union and Indonesia. She has done many merits hearings before many of the Immigration judges in the Los Angeles Immigration Court, as well as handling appeals to the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Please Call: 310-550-5877