GARY CHODOROW

Attorney and Chief Representative, Beijing Office

Email: gary@fwhonglaw.com
Phone: 86.10.6506.1170 or -1180

Gary Chodorow graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University in 1989 and earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) in 1993. Before joining our firm in 2004, he was a partner in a Chicago law firm, where for ten years he practiced immigration law and employment law.

Mr. Chodorow is an adjunct professor at Chicago-Kent Law School. In China, he has taught law courses at Beijing University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, and Liaoning University.

He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He also currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Visa Committee for American Chamber of Commerce-China.

Mr. Chodorow is the author of a number of a number of articles on U.S. immigration law. Most recently, he authored a chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association's The Visa Processing & Consular Posts Handbook (2008-09 Edition). Mr. Chodorow also publishes LawAndBorder.com, a Beijing blog about U.S. visas and immigration law.

Mr. Chodorow speaks conversational Mandarin and Spanish.