Theresa Loken
Associate

Biographical Summary

Theresa Loken is an associate attorney at Kuykendall & Associates. She graduated cum laude from New York Law School after receiving a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California. During law school, she successfully participated in the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and worked as a legal intern in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. After law school, Theresa obtained an Advanced Master’s degree in Public International Law from the University of Leiden in The Netherlands, where she served as an assistant editor for the Leiden Journal of International Law. She also represented the University in the Jean-Pictet International Humanitarian Law Competition.

Prior to joining Kuykendall & Associates, Theresa was an associate at Yerman & Associates, LLC, an immigration law firm specializing in asylum applications and deportation/removal defense. She successfully represented many asylum applicants before the immigration courts in several different states and was the senior associate for the firm’s appellate practice. Theresa argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and wrote the briefs for successful federal appeals in the First, Second, Third, Sixth and Eleventh Circuits.

Theresa also serves as an attorney for the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program, is admitted to practice law in New York and taking the Arizona bar in July 2011.