Richard M. Costa has been involved exclusively in the field of immigration and nationality law for more than thirty-five years. He joined the Boston office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) as an Immigration Inspector at Logan International Airport in 1970 after obtaining his undergraduate degree from Boston College. He was involved in a wide variety of matters at INS including responsibility for adjudicating applications for temporary and permanent visa status. He earned his law degree in 1975 from Suffolk University Law School and thereafter became a Naturalization Attorney in the Boston INS office.
 

Laurie B. Riccio is a graduate of Bentley College and New England School of Law. She also practices immigration law exclusively and has developed substantial expertise in those areas in which the firm concentrates, including complex labor certifications, visa petitions (temporary and permanent), adjustment of status applications, and citizenship and nationality issues. Clients include both large and small corporations, universities, hospitals, and other institutions, as well as individuals from more than 150 countries.

She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Since 1988, she has been a Faculty member at Northeastern University where she is a part-time lecturer at University College teaching classes in Business Law. She is admitted to the bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She is also a member of the Massachusetts/Rhode Island Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and is a former liaison to the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Service’s Vermont Service Center.

Cecilia M. Hanley joined the Law Offices of Richard M. Costa as an Associate Attorney in June 1998. She is a graduate of New England School of Law and has an LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University School of Law. She has experience in immigration law, having served as a Legal Assistant in this firm since October 1996, and in tax law, as a Representative with the Internal Revenue Service.

Ellen Davey-Fleming joined the Law Offices of Richard M. Costa as an Associate Attorney in 1999. She earned her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and also has a Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, she was an Associate Attorney for four years with the law firm of Ross, Martel & Silverman in Boston, specializing in family immigration, business immigration and asylum cases. Prior to receiving her law degree, she served as a legal intern with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Washington, D.C. and worked as a legal intern and immigration paralegal for law firms in Philadelphia and Washington D.C.
 

Adrienne J. Vaughan rejoined the Law Offices of Richard M. Costa as an Associate Attorney in 2001. Adrienne is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and earned her law degree magna cum laude from Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota. Her article on the Violence Against Women Act was published in 2000 in the Hamline Law Review. During law school she clerked for Judge Joseph Dierkes at the U.S. Immigration Court in Bloomington, MN, as well as a private immigration practitioner in St. Paul. Prior to law school she worked for three years for the Law Offices of Richard M. Costa as a legal assistant.