As a San Francisco immigration lawyer, Deborah Dyson handled mostly employment-based immigration benefits, deportation defense, and appeals. Ms. Dyson holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from UC Berkeley and a J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law, where she edited a law review journal and published a law review article on the use of expert testimony in employment discrimination cases. Before and during law school, Ms. Dyson worked as an immigration paralegal, and before that, she worked for a legal publisher, writing and editing indexes for law books.