Meghan Deutsch-Blanco provides counsel to individuals and businesses from around the world. She is passionate about her work and provides high-quality, empathic, and thoughtful legal representation and advocacy.  

Meghan focuses on immigration and nationality law in order to provide clients with the most up-to-date information in the rapidly changing legal landscape of immigration laws and practices.  Meghan seeks to reduce the stress of the immigration process by providing accurate and timely counsel to her clients through all stages of their cases.

Meghan began her legal career at Legal Aid of North Carolina where she advocated for immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking in proceedings before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Executive Office of Immigration Review. She also has experience as a zealous courtroom litigator and uses her advocacy skills to champion the best possible results for her clients.      

Meghan conducts frequent trainings on immigration law in the community. She enjoys explaining the immigration system without “legal talk” and has co-written a manual on the basics of immigration law that is used to train non-immigration attorneys.

Education

Meghan attended law school at the University of North Carolina School of Law.  During law school, Meghan focused on issues of immigration law and spent her time outside of the books assisting humanitarian immigration applicants.  Meghan studied international economics and political science in college and graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.  She also spent a year studying and working in Cordoba, Argentina where she learned to speak fluent Spanish.  Before becoming a lawyer she taught English to speakers of foreign languages in Asia and worked in a Raleigh law firm helping workers injured on the job.  

Meghan enjoys spending time exploring North Carolina’s outdoor beauty with her family.