Ally Bolour, ‘96 Founding & Managing Partner, Bolour/Carl Immigration Group ally@americanvisas.net | (323) 857-0034 Ally Bolour has been practicing immigration law since 1996. He is the Founding and Managing Partner at Bolour/Carl Immigration Group, a full-service immigration law firm in Los Angeles. Mr. Bolour is currently an Elected Director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and has previously served on the Board of Trustees at the American Immigration Council. He also holds memberships in the LA County Bar Association and LGBT Bar Association. Mr. Bolour frequently speaks publicly on immigration issues for local, national, and international organizations. Mr. Bolour received his J.D. in 1996 from Southwestern Law School, where he was on the Dean’s List and received academic honors recognitions. He holds an M.B.A. and a B.A. in Business Administration from California State University, Fresno and has studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. Mr. Bolour is fluent in Persian.
Michelle Eshaghian Bokhour, ‘13 Founder, Eshaghian Law, PC michelle@eshlegal.com | (310) 531-8090 Michelle Eshaghian Bokhour is the founder of Eshaghian Law, PC, a boutique litigation practice committed to helping employees explore and enforce their employment and labor rights. A graduate of the University of California, Irvine and Southwestern Law School, Ms. Eshaghian Bokhour was admitted to practice law in California in 2013. While in law school, she completed an internship in NBCUniversal’s labor relations and employment law department and an externship at the United States District Court for the Honorable Dean D. Pregerson. Ms. Eshaghian Bokhour has dedicated her entire career to exclusively representing employees who have been wronged in the workplace. She vigorously litigates wage and hour class actions, and passionately represents individuals in cases involving sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination. She particularly enjoys pursuing wage disparity cases and vindicating the rights of transgender employees. In 2020 and 2021, Michelle was selected as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers magazine, an honor given to no more than 2.5 percent of attorneys that are under the age of 40.
Christopher Ghazarian, ‘14 General Counsel, DreamHost chris@dreamhost.com | chris.law | (213) 787-4401 Chris Ghazarian is the General Counsel of DreamHost, a Los Angeles-based website, domain, and cloud company. He heads all legal, M&A, and international expansion activity, and now helps shape the company’s long-term strategy and goals. His work centers on protecting customer privacy in the age of big data. For instance, DreamHost publicly opposed a search warrant from the Department of Justice that demanded, among other things, 1.3 million IP addresses of internet users who visited a website organizing protests against President Trump's inauguration. The story gained international attention, and Mr. Ghazarian and his team successfully argued in D.C. Superior Court against the overbroad nature of the demand and its effect on 1st Amendment protections. More recently, he spends his time leading joint defense groups with Fortune 500 tech companies that band together against well-known patent trolls, choosing to publicly fight back and prevail in court instead of privately settling. 6
