Elizabeth Espín Stern

Elizabeth Espín Stern is the former Managing Partner of Mayer Brown’s Washington, DC office (2021–24) and Founder and Head of Mayer Brown’s Global Mobility and Migration practice (2014–24), and she continues to advise both bodies as Senior Counsel. She is a seasoned veteran who has advised companies through every major immigration policy change since 1986. 

Ms. Stern is consistently ranked as a leading business immigration lawyer by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Who’s Who Legal, The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, and national and local publications. She is in Legal 500’s Hall of Fame for Immigration (2020–22) as well as Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers, and she a recipient of the National Law Journal’s Immigration Trailblazer award (2018) and its Crisis Leadership Trailblazer award (2020). Ms. Stern has been recognized by Corporate Counsel’s 2021 Women, Influence, and Power in Law Awards for innovative leadership, awarded Washingtonian’s Lawyer Lifetime Achievement honor for immigration, named as one of the top 10 most innovative legal practitioners by the Financial Times (2020), and received the Women Who Mean Business award from the Washington Business Journal. She has also been named a Mayer Brown Diversity Champion.

Ms. Stern regularly speaks and writes about immigration policies; talent optimization; and diversity, equity and inclusion, and she contributes to major news agencies and publications.

She received her JD from the University of Virginia School of Law and her BA, magna cum laude, from the University of Virginia.