Lissette Gomez concentrates her legal practice in the area of U.S. Immigration Law. In 1996 she graduated from from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts where she was a member of the Latin American Law Students Association (LALSA) and the Student of Color Coalition.  As a law student she clerked at  the U.S. Attorney's Office Economic Crimes Unit (Boston), La Raza Centro Legal (San Francisco) and the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Lissette has been admitted to practice as an attorney in California and before the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and a mentor attorney for the San Francisco Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Asylum Project.

Lissette earned a Bachelor’s in Science from the University of Florida where she majored in Telecommunication and Political Science. She made her decision to attend law school while  working as an Assistant Director at WUSA, the CBS television affiliate in Washington, D.C. 

Ms. Gomez was born in Teaneck, New Jersey and grew up in Miami, Florida speaking Spanish. Her family emigrated from Cuba.  She is a mother and a student of photography, Italian language, and life.