Alexis Dutt
After studying English, writing, and Spanish at Drury University, Alexis came to law school with the goal of using her license to help individuals and their families navigate the complexities of the legal system and feel safe and secure. While at the University of Minnesota Law School, she spent a week at the southern border providing pro bono in immigration detention facilities with asylum-seekers. After that, she knew that a career in immigration was her path. Shortly after this, Alexis joined Karam Law in 2016.
During school, she was a certified student attorney in the Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic of the James H. Binger Center for New Americans. Alexis was involved in litigation efforts contesting the Travel Ban as well as the class action law suit for the Somali 92, which included another trip to the border. She has argued before the U.S. District Court of Minnesota and the Eighth Circuit. Alexis graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2018, where she was on the Dean’s list and graduated with the Immigration Concentration.
Today, Alexis has a broad immigration practice, focusing on working with families and those seeking humanitarian and family-based relief throughout the immigration process, from application to appeal. Alexis practices before USCIS, immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, U.S. District Court, and the Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Alexis is licensed in Minnesota, and is admitted to practice before the Executive Office of Immigration Review, the Eighth and Second Circuits, the District Court of Minnesota, and the Western District of Wisconsin. She speaks Spanish.
She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, where she has served as the chair of the Upper Midwest Annual Conference and is one of the current Fort Snelling Immigration Court Liaisons for the AILA Minnesota-Dakotas chapter.
Alexis volunteers with the Advocates for Human Rights, particularly enjoying mentoring non immigration attorneys who are providing pro bono services for asylum and immigration court matters.
She has provided continuing legal education presentations on various topics, including bond hearings, federal litigation, and humanitarian asylum. Alexis is grateful for the mentorship and guidance she received during her education from practicing attorneys; because of this, she principally loves working with and presenting to students.