Paul lives in Jacksonville, Florida, and has been a member of the Florida and Maryland Bars for over 20 years, having worked in both private practice and government service. He graduated from the University of Florida (B.S.), and the College of William & Mary (J.D.) He is a former law clerk to the Chief Judge of Maryland, and is licensed to practice before all Florida and Maryland Courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals (11th Circuit), and the U.S. District Courts of Florida (Northern and Middle Districts).
He represents families who have adopted children overseas, helping them obtain recognition of their foreign adoptions (and re-adoptions) in Florida. Knowing the expenses incurred during the international adoption process, he offers his legal assistance to families at reasonable rates. When the recognition of their foreign adoption (and re-adoption) process is complete, families will receive Florida birth certificates for their children, and will have certified copies of the Final Judgment from a Florida Court (important documents for the future). He has also assisted families who have adopted children from "disrupted" adoptions, and helps his clients with will and estate planning as well.
Since September 2005 alone, he successfully represented more than 600 families in Alachua, Bay, Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Clay, Columbia, Dade, Duval, Escambia, Flagler, Hernando, Hillsborough, Indian River, Jackson, Lake, Lee, Leon, Manatee, Marion, Martin, Monroe, Nassau, Okaloosa, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Putnam, Santa Rosa, Sarasota, Seminole, St. Johns, St. Lucie, Sumter, and Volusia Counties, and is currently working with families in other counties throughout the State of Florida.
Countries represented include China, Colombia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Liberia, Morocco, Peru, Russian Federation, South Korea, Suriname, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, and Vietnam.
He is married to Stephanie, and they have one daughter, Casey Mei Ying, adopted from Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, in July of 2005. They have begun the process for a second adoption from China, with a log-in date for their dossier of November 13, 2006.
Susan Pai, Of Counsel to Paul Consbruck, Attorney at Law
Susan Pai, of The Law Office of Susan Pai www.strongvisa.com, lives in Jacksonville, Florida, and focuses exclusively on immigration law.
Attorney Pai's many years of service to the public and Corporate America, in conjunction with her personal experience as a first-generation U.S. Citizen, serve her immigration clients well.
She has successfully processed Family-Based Petitions, Fiancee Visas, H-1Bs, H-1B1s, E-2s, E-3s, L-1As, L-1Bs, Os, Ps, and TNs. She has also submitted successful EB-1 petitions (subject to the highest level of scrutiny) and has been asked to respond to RFEs for petitions in which she was not originally involved.
Every visa application Attorney Pai has originally applied for (since 2006) has been approved—a 100% success rate for her practice.
Additionally, Attorney Pai has had great success in applications for extraordinary aliens, and outstanding researchers and professors. Susan is a member of the Washington State Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She attended the University of Southern California, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Louisville, and Nagoya University in Japan.
Attorney Pai also served as Senior Investigations Manager of Microsoft's Special Investigations Unit, the Financial Integrity Unit, and is a former member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Susan is highly experienced in compliance matters at the workplace, and ensures that her clients are well informed in all visa compliance issues.
Attorney Pai has volunteered extensively in the community and has been a featured speaker at anti-fraud training conferences, local schools, and law schools. Susan also provides self-defense instruction. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, surfing, martial arts, yoga, and firearms training.
Maria Aguila, Of Counsel to Paul Consbruck, Attorney at Law
Maria Aguila is a licensed member of the Florida Bar, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Jacksonville Bar Association, and is admitted to the U.S. Middle District Court of Florida. She also currently serves as Vice-President of the Jacksonville Asian American Bar Association, is an active member of the Jacksonville Asian American Alliance (JAAA), was a speaker at the annual Jacksonville Asian Leaders Summit and the JAAA Immigration Workshop January 2008, and was awarded the 2008 Mayor's Asian American Advisory Board Community Service Award. She is a senior contributing immigration law columnist for the Basta Pinoy, a local Filipino American publication, and has conducted several Fair Housing educational seminars for NEFBA, JHRC, real estate agencies, and various non-profit agencies. In 2007, she was an adjunct professor at Florida Coastal School of Law and an adjunct professor in the legal studies program at FCCJ in 2008. www.strongvisa.com
Tala Woods, Of Counsel to Paul Consbruck, Attorney at Law
Tala Abangan Woods practices in the areas of business law, immigration law and public finance. In 1993, Ms. Woods graduated from the University of Florida with a B.S. in Business Administration. After graduation, she worked for Barnett Capital Advisors as an investment portfolio manager of personal trust accounts. As a portfolio manager, she gained experience analyzing the business and financial information of publicly-traded companies by reviewing company balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements. She managed the investment of funds in approximately 200 trust accounts and she was responsible for providing investment recommendations to clients and other portfolio managers. During her tenure at Barnett Capital Advisors, she earned the designation of a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Ms. Woods left her position with Barnett Capital Advisors in 1997 to attend law school at the University of Florida College of Law. During law school she worked two summers as a law clerk for Rogers Towers, P.A. Ms. Woods graduated from law school in December of 2000, and began her legal career in 2001 with Rogers Towers, P.A. as an associate in its business and tax law department. In 2007, Ms. Woods left Rogers Towers and became Of Counsel with Akerman Senterfitt. She left Akerman in 2009 to open her own law practice. www.talawoodslawfirm.com
Ms. Woods currently serves as the Secretary of the Jacksonville Asian American Bar Association and has previously served as its Vice President. She worships and serves at Southside United Methodist Church in Jacksonville, Florida. She also volunteers for such organizations as Team Focus Jacksonville, a mentoring program for fatherless boys, and Family Promise Jacksonville, an interfaith hospitality network which provides temporary housing for homeless families. She is the mother of two children, ages 3 and 5, and wife to husband, Benjy.