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Despite a myriad of immigration case management platforms on the market, finding the right platform is a challenge. After practicing immigration law for over two decades, Lawpilot founders, Martin Valko and Nick Chavez, realized the one-size-fits-all approach to case management just wasn’t meeting their needs. As their law firm grew from 4 to 50 employees with more than a dozen attorneys, the practice needed a scalable, user-friendly software platform.
They wanted to keep up with scaling their caseload several-fold without jeopardizing the quality of legal work and client care. That’s why they began developing their own platform ― to help manage their growing list of cases. With Lawpilot, the founders envisioned a single platform to meet all the needs of their law practice.
Today, Lawpilot provides attorneys with a complete law practice case management platform that combines automation and built-in processes to efficiently manage operations for immigration law practitioners. The goal is to allow them to effectively scale their practice while decreasing overhead. The Lawpilot Guardian app is designed to send emergency alerts to the user’s contact list and attorney in the event of detainment by local law enforcement or Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Martin Valko
Co-Founder & CEO
Over the past 16 years, Martin has represented families, individuals and companies navigate the US immigration maze. An immigrant from Slovakia, he has a keen understanding of the complexity of the US immigration system. Martin’s practice primarily focuses on business immigration and investors
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Nicolas Chavez
Co-Founder & Chief Content Officer
Nick Chavez, an expert in immigration and naturalization law, specializes in helping individuals obtain lawful status or citizenship in the US. A native of El Paso, Texas, Nick grew up surrounded by immigration and both of his parents immigrated to the US from Chihuahua, Mexico.
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Nick Chavez, an expert in immigration and naturalization law, specializes in helping individuals obtain lawful status or citizenship in the US. A native of El Paso, Texas, Nick grew up surrounded by immigration and both of his parents immigrated to the US from Chihuahua, Mexico.
With more than 18 years of experience in immigration law, Nick has litigated immigration cases before the US Court of Appeals as well as the BIA and the immigration courts. He has represented several notable immigrants including a Grammy-nominated artist, a race car team member, and a highly-accomplished muralist.
Active in his field, Nick regularly speaks at lawyer conferences and community events on various immigration topics. He writes publications for local media and is regularly featured in radio and television shows to discuss developments in immigration law relevant to the community. He served on AILA’s Amicus Committee for 7 years, is an appointed legal advisor to the Consulate of Mexico in Dallas and is a member of the Texas Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee since 2004.
He is a published cartoonist and after winning a contest in 2000 during law school, he published his first legal cartoon in The National Jurist. “Chavez World” cartoons are featured in Immigration Law Today (now VOICE), which is published nationally by the American Immigration Lawyers Association. As a legal practitioner, his experiences and insight into immigration naturally inform his subject matter. However, it’s the ironic and nonsensical nature of immigration law and policy that leads to his use of satire in his work.
Nick graduated from the University of Houston Law Center where he served in the immigration clinic under the tutelage of the late Professor Joseph Vail.
Over the past 16 years, Martin has represented families, individuals and companies navigate the US immigration maze. An immigrant from Slovakia, he has a keen understanding of the complexity of the US immigration system. Martin’s practice primarily focuses on business immigration and investors, although he’s experienced all types of family-based immigration cases and represents individuals before the immigration courts. Among the clients he’s represented are professional athletes, artists, scientists, start-up founders and employees, and Fortune companies. He’s served on several liaison committees of the American Immigration Lawyers Association for the US Department of Homeland Security agencies and speaks at local and national conferences and business meetings on various US immigration law topics. He has served as the Legal Advisor to the Mexican Consulate General in Dallas on US immigration laws since 2011 and to the Embassy of Slovakia.
He and his law partner, Nick Chavez, built one of the fastest growing immigration law firms in Dallas/Ft. Worth known for its handling of difficult and complex cases. These experiences led them to develop one of the most innovative and technologically-advanced platforms for complete law practice management. Their goal is to bring automation to not only solo attorneys and small law firms, but to large firms and corporations that can realize greater revenue by scaling their caseloads while reducing overhead.
Martin is a graduate of Oklahoma City University School of Law and the Southern Methodist University School of Law.
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