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We'll guide you through uncertainty and help you achieve your immigration success.

The attorneys at Rivas & Associates are dedicated to each of their clients and their stories. Guided through shared values and mutual respect, our team is committed to serving those seeking their American Dream.

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Lorena Rivas

Senior Attorney

Originally from Mutual, Oklahoma, Lorena is the proud daughter of two Mexican nationals who have paved the way for her to continually serve and represent her community.
 
Lorena Rivas is CEO of Rivas & Associates, an immigration law firm that serves immigrants all over the United States.  To further assist her clients, she recently opened the Colegio de Sueños (College of Dreams) that offers English as a Second Language (ESL) and citizenship courses to individuals seeking to become citizens of the United States.
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Experienced immigration attorney Elissa Stiles

Elissa Stiles

Associate Attorney

Elissa Stiles is a rising star in the field of immigration law.

The Tulsa immigration lawyer is a supervising attorney with Rivas & Associates, where Elissa dedicates herself to asylum cases, deportation defense, detained representation, appeals, and federal immigration-based litigation.

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Grisel Wilson

Associate Attorney

Grisel Wilson is an experienced attorney in criminal and immigration law. She gained trial experience as a former public defender in Eastern Kentucky, representing a variety of clients charged with simple misdemeanors to serious felony offenses.

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Braxton Coil

Associate Attorney

Braxton Coil was born and raised in Edmond, Oklahoma.She has done criminal defense work and immigration work in the last few years.

She enjoys all things sports-related. Her personal favorites, aside from softball, of course, are baseball and football. She played college softball at Missouri State University.
She currently does not have any children but would love to be a mom someday.

She would say that she is joyful, passionate, and a sensitive person. She wears her emotions on her sleeve- she always has. She thinks it is both her strength and her weakness.
She is passionate about the work we do and about making a difference in the lives of our clients. Each and every day we have the opportunity to change someone’s life for the better. How cool is that?

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Biography
Originally from Mutual, Oklahoma, Lorena is the proud daughter of two Mexican nationals who have paved the way for her to continually serve and represent her community.
 
Lorena Rivas is CEO of Rivas & Associates, an immigration law firm that serves immigrants all over the United States.  To further assist her clients, she recently opened the Colegio de Sueños (College of Dreams) that offers English as a Second Language (ESL) and citizenship courses to individuals seeking to become citizens of the United States.
 
As an attorney, Lorena has long been a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and Oklahoma Bar Association (OBA).  Much of her company centers on the legal representation of individuals who are facing the numerous and complicated immigration laws of the United States in affirmative and defensive cases. She is the past chair of the immigration law section for the Oklahoma Bar Association (OBA) and has served on various committees with AILA.  In 2018, she was given the Fern Holland award by the University of Tulsa College of Law for her work in human rights and the empowerment of women.
 
Lorena Rivas and her law firm, Rivas & Associates have made an indelible mark on Tulsa through their impactful work and entrepreneurial spirit. Lorena’s vision and determination led her to establish a small firm that has since blossomed into an enterprise employing over 100 individuals, with an impressive 95% of them being minority women. Rivas & Associates was named in Inc.’s 5000 list as one of the fastest growing companies in the United States and ranked 31st in the Inc’s southwest region. Lorena was named to the prestigious Inc. Magazine Female Founders 200 list for 2023.  This achievement, in itself, is a testament to her commitment to empowering underrepresented communities, providing them with not just jobs but also valuable opportunities for growth and advancement.

 

Awards and Continuing Legal Education

For her notable efforts, Lorena was the recipient of the 2018 Fern Holland Award, which is annually given to a lawyer who advocates for human rights or the empowerment of women, and was selected as a 2018 Super Lawyers Rising Star.

Additionally, she was selected to speak at the annual American Immigration Council’s American Heritage Awards in Orlando, Florida for their American Dreams speech contest in July 2019.

She is the past chair of the immigration law section for the Oklahoma Bar Association (OBA) and has served on various committees with AILA. Lorena is a graduate of the OBA’s Leadership Academy and the OBA Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute, and has participated in various seminars with the Trial Lawyers College.

 

Education

She was nominated for the 2015 Williams Women of Inspiration Award and is a member of Leadership Tulsa Class 60. Lorena graduated with a Juris Doctorate from the University of Tulsa College of Law where she not only graduated with honors, but also actively participated in the Immigrant Rights Legal Clinic.

Lorena also received her M.A. from Fort Hays State University and a B.S. from Saint Gregory’s University.

Originally from Mutual, Oklahoma, Lorena is the proud daughter of two Mexican nationals who have paved the way for her to continually serve and represent her community as an immigration law attorney.

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Elissa Stiles

Associate Attorney

Biography

Elissa Stiles is a rising star in the field of immigration law.

The Tulsa immigration attorney is an associate attorney with Rivas & Associates, where Elissa Stiles dedicates herself to the practice of immigration law by focusing on family petitions, citizenship applications, asylum cases, visas for victims of crime, deportation defense, and appeals.

Elissa has a particular passion for asylum cases and has zealously represented individuals seeking refuge from persecution in the countries of Cameroon, Egypt, Venezuela, and Cuba, just to name a few. Elissa also enjoys researching and preparing appellate arguments and has advocated for her clients before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. 

An adventurer at heart, Elissa Stiles developed her passion for working with people from around the globe during her undergraduate studies abroad in Peru, Madagascar, and Brazil.

She attended law school at the University of Tulsa with the particular goal of becoming an immigration attorney and having a positive impact on peoples’ lives by practicing law from within the Tulsa community.

As a first-year law student, Elissa joined Rivas & Associates as an intern and has worked with the firm ever since, transitioning to the role of attorney in 2019. Elissa co-founded and served as president of TU’s Immigration Law Society, in addition to planning and implementing an annual pro bono service trip to an immigration detention center in south Texas.

When she’s not preparing immigrant petitions or advocating in a courtroom, Elissa is often found at a book club discussing a classic novel over a cup of tea, or hiking alongside her trusty pup Calypso.

Biography

Grisel Wilson is an experienced attorney in criminal and immigration law. She gained trial experience as a former public defender in Eastern Kentucky, representing a variety of clients charged with simple misdemeanors to serious felony offenses. She represents parents and juveniles in Dependency, Neglect, and Abuse proceedings, and is a Guardian Ad Litem in Disability cases. She is involved in her community and local politics to help combat opioid addiction in Eastern Kentucky.

Grisel enjoys traveling with her husband during her free time, Cincinnati Reds baseball, Bengals football, and Kentucky basketball.

 

Grisel Wilson

Associate Attorney

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