{"id":6,"date":"2021-08-09T20:25:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillerkim.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:28:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:28:58","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stillerkim.com\/home\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally founded in 1946, Stiller Kim, PC is one of California\u2019s oldest firms devoted exclusively to corporate immigration law.&nbsp; This boutique firm has developed a national reputation for its expertise on employment based immigration cases, particularly H and&nbsp; L nonimmigrant visas, as well as labor certifications; the Firm represents industry leaders throughout the United States.&nbsp; Our partners, associates and staff strive to provide an unsurpassed level of personalized service and communication.&nbsp; The Firm has developed Human Resources training programs for hiring managers, human resources and foreign born workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steven Stiller joined the firm founded by his father, Norman Stiller, in 1979 and assumed a managing partner role together with Moira Buxbaum in 1990 in Stiller + Buxbaum, the predecessor firm of Stiller Kim, PC.&nbsp; Mr. Stiller is an alumnus of the University of California at Berkeley and received his J.D. from Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.&nbsp; He was a member of the first group of attorneys to receive certification as a specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law in 1989.&nbsp; Mr. Stiller has lectured widely, including programs conducted for the Bar Association of San Francisco, the Barrister\u2019s Club and the American Immigration Lawyer\u2019s Association.&nbsp; A dual citizen of Switzerland and the United States, he is an attache to the Swiss Consulate representing legal interests of Swiss citizens in the western region of the U.S.&nbsp; Mr. Stiller has retired from the practice of law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jean Kim joined Stiller + Buxbaum in 2004 and became a Partner in 2013 and is now the managing partner.&nbsp; Mr. Kim obtained his J.D. degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1999 and was admitted to the California state bar the same year.&nbsp; He is also admitted in Hawaii and the District of Columbia.&nbsp; He received his BA and MA from the University of California, Berkeley.&nbsp; He practiced for 3 years in Hawaii in business immigration and e-business, helping corporate clients establish a U.S. presence and receiving the PacificNews.Net <em>2002 Hawaii\u2019s Top High Technology Leaders Award<\/em>.&nbsp; He also served as the President of the Korean American Bar Association Hawaii for two years, organizing and hosting the 2002 International Association of Korean Lawyers annual conference.&nbsp; He has been on the Board of the Korean American Bar Association of Northern California since 2004, serving as Director and Secretary and on the Board of the KABANC Foundation.&nbsp; He has also served as Treasurer of the International Association of Korean Lawyers from 2007 to 2014 and is the current Treasurer of the IAKL Foundation.&nbsp; He is a Lifetime Member of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Silicon Valley.&nbsp; He is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese and conversational in Korean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Angel Yin is an Associate Attorney at Stiller Kim, PC, where she focuses her practice on U.S. business immigration matters. She assists corporate clients across a variety of industries with a focus on advising on and supporting employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant matters. As an immigrant herself, Angel possesses a deep personal connection to the field of immigration and is fueled by a genuine passion to assist clients. Prior to joining Stiller Kim, PC, Angel worked at a full-service immigration law firm in California, where she handled a wide range of family- and employment-based applications. Angel has actively engaged in serving the immigrant communities in Los Angeles through her pro bono experience at various local legal clinics. She holds a LLM degree from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is admitted to the New York bar. She is fluent in Mandarin&nbsp;and Wu Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The firm is proud of its roster of prominent corporations representing a diverse cross section of business sectors.\u00a0 Our clients include:\u00a0 Perkins &amp; Will \u00b7 RIOS \u00b7 TBG Partners \u00b7 Harley Ellis Devereaux \u00b7 Leo A Daly \u00b7 RMW \u00b7 Collective Hub, Inc. \u00b7 Adrian Smith Gordon Gill Architecture \u00b7 WATG \u00b7 VMWP \u00b7 Pyatok \u00b7 EHDD \u00b7 Wilbur-Ellis Company \u00b7 Lake Flato \u00b7 KMD Architects \u00b7 DES Architects + Engineers \u00b7 Dahlin Group \u00b7 Brilliant Earth LLC \u00b7 Scott Edwards Architecture \u00b7 Spectrum Systems \u00b7 Harris &amp; Associates, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally founded in 1946, Stiller Kim, PC is one of California\u2019s oldest firms devoted exclusively to corporate immigration law.&nbsp; This boutique firm has developed a national reputation for its expertise on employment based immigration cases, particularly H and&nbsp; L nonimmigrant visas, as well as labor certifications; the Firm represents industry leaders throughout the United States.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillerkim.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillerkim.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillerkim.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillerkim.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillerkim.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/stillerkim.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/stillerkim.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillerkim.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}