Cristina Perez is a successful lawyer, three-time Emmy Award winning television personality, radio host, speaker, entrepreneur/business owner, national author, and featured columnist.
Cristina is an internationally recognized immigration lawyer. Her practice focuses on assisting professionals and multi-national companies in the technology, business, investment, athletic, and entertainment fields, in non-immigrant and immigrant visas, labor certifications, as well as in other immigration representation. Her clients include Fortune 500 and Inc. 500 companies, national and international businesses, investment firms, corporate executives, professionals, athletes, international celebrities, as well as entertainers.
During the course of her career, Cristina has successfully arbitrated more than 2000 limited jurisdiction matters, ranging from employment, labor, multiparty, personal injury, intellectual property, business, contract, real estate, and tort issues to many other disputes among parties across the U.S. Cristina is well-regarded for her integrity and ability to bring parties together to settle their disputes.
Cristina is an active member of the Los Angeles legal community and has served as a leader of several nationally recognized organizations, including the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), where she has served on the national Board of Governors for AILA and as Chair of AILA’s Southern California Chapter. Cristina is committed to legal awareness in her community. She is an active participant in local affairs, regularly educating the public on legal issues. Cristina works closely with several community non-profit organizations, including the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice, and regularly serves as a guest lecturer and speaker at seminars sponsored by public/community associations, law schools, and professional organizations. She has served as the Los Angeles Bar Association Spokesperson for its Lawyer Referral and Information Service, a position formerly held only by “The People’s Court” Judge Wapner.
Cristina is internationally renowned as the three-time Emmy Award winning television judge on “Cristina’s Court” (FOX) and the Emmy-nominated “Justice for All with Judge Cristina Perez” (Entertainment Studios). She is also internationally recognized as the Judge on “La Corte de Familia” (NBC/ Telemundo) and hosted “Judge Cristina Live @9” (KABC 790 AM). She is frequently featured on radio and television and has served as a columnist for national magazines and internet-based publications and blogs. Cristina also appeared weekly as a Legal Guest Co-Host on POSiBLE Radio, a Latino entrepreneurship and wealth initiative show on Univision Radio Network.
Cristina is also the author of Living by Los Dichos (Simon & Schuster/Atria), It’s All About the Woman Who Wears It: Ten Laws for Being Smart, Successful and Sexy Too (Penguin Books) and Red, White & Latina – Our American Identity (Morgan James).