Toni Xu

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States10 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder of a law firm focused on extraordinary immigrants.
  • Developed next-gen immigration OS to enhance legal tech.
  • Expert in navigating complex immigration petitions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a legal tech entrepreneur specializing in immigration law and social entrepreneurship.

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Skills

Core Skills

Immigration LawEntrepreneurshipExperience DesignSocial Entrepreneurship

Other Skills

Legal WritingPolicy AnalysisNarrative EngineeringAbleton LiveGlobal MobilityLegal TranslationStatisticsChemical EngineeringTranslationWebsite DevelopmentCase ManagementCorporate LawRegulatory ComplianceC++javascript

About

To immigrate is to exist in a state of perpetual hope, even as the ground beneath your feet shifts like sand. At 17, I arrived at this country with 2 suitcases and a student visa that promised everything and guaranteed nothing. After graduation, 3 times I offered myself up to the H-1B lottery, 3 times it returned my offering unopened. I refused to give up. In New York, where dreams stack as high as skyscrapers, I built my resistance to exclusion: a law firm and a tech startup that carve new pathways through the fortress of American immigration. Each petition we craft – EB-1, O-1, NIW, L1, E2, H1b – represents a kind of cartography of possibility, mapping the ways that merit can still triumph over chance when guided by those who know the terrain. My team, predominantly immigrants, understand that revolution sometimes wears a business suit and speaks in legal codes. We're not just practicing immigration law. We are telling the stories of those who refuse to be reduced to numbers. It's the power of knowing how to open closed doors. It's the power of helping a star rise up from the ashes. Let me tell your story.

Experience

Xu law group

Founder & Principal Attorney

Jun 2020Present · 5 yrs 9 mos · New York, United States

  • High-touch, high-standard law firm for extraordinary immigrants and founders.
Immigration LawEntrepreneurship

Opencitizen.io

Founder

Jan 2019Present · 7 yrs 2 mos · New York, New York

  • Building next-gen immigration OS. Private, not venture-backed, and actively fighting enshitification plaguing legal tech.
Experience DesignSocial Entrepreneurship

Weitz & luxenberg pc

Litigation

Jan 2016Jan 2017 · 1 yr · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • In Re: Monsanto, mass tort litigation. Left since I wasn't selected in the H-1B lottery.

City of new orleans

Intern

Jan 2016Jun 2016 · 5 mos

  • Police shootings and wrongful deaths

The lambert firm

Litigation Law Clerk

Jan 2016Jan 2016 · 0 mo

  • Cross-border product liability

Herman, herman & katz, llc

Litigation Law Clerk

Jun 2014Jan 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater New Orleans Area

  • Chemical product liability

Tulane university law school

Legal Programmer

Jul 2013Jun 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Copyright automation system

Education

Tulane University Law School

Doctor of Law (J.D.) — Technology and International Law

Tulane University

Master of Arts (M.A.) — Philosophy

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Negotiation — Conflict Resolution

Tulane University

Bachelor of Arts - BA — Political Economy and Philosophy Dual Major

The Juilliard School

Electronic Music Production

New York University

Venture Capital and Private Equity

Gotham Writers

Science Fiction Writing

The City College of New York

Chemical Engineering

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