In 2005, Mira Mdivani was named BEST OF THE BAR - BUSINESS IMMIGRATION LAW, by the Kansas City Business Journal, for the second year in a row. Her pro-bono work on behalf of immigrant survivors of domestic violence was recognized by The Kansas Bar Association's PRO BONO Certificate of Appreciation Award. The Mdivani Law Firm received the FIRM OF THE YEAR award from the Association of Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City. The Missouri Lawyers Weekly named her Missouri Best Lawyer If the Folks at Immigration Call.

Mira’s areas of expertise include: Business Immigration, specifically, employer immigration law compliance systems, management and HR training on immigration issues, I 9 and contractor certification audits, L 1 temporary work visas for executives and managers, H 1B visas for professionals, H 2Bs for essential workers, employment based permanent residency, and immigration related issues raised in the context of corporate changes; and Family Immigration, including advice for families with immigrant members on issues of permanent residency and naturalization.

Mira frequently writes and presents on immigration law. She has presented on business immigration law issues by the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association for Annual Corporate Counsel Institute, Missouri Bar Association, Kansas Bar Associations, and Kansas Women Attorneys Association. She has provided expert testimony in the field of immigration law to members of Kansas Senate and House of Representatives. She has written for the Journal of the Kansas Bar Association and ilw.com.

Mira serves on the Board of Directors of The Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City, where she chairs the Community Support Committee. She is past chair of the Pro Bono Service Committee of the Missouri Kansas Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She is a member of the Missouri and Kansas Bars, and KCMBA's Employment and Labor and International Law Committees.

Mira’s law degree was awarded by the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law. In law school, she received the American Jurisprudence Awards for the highest academic achievements in Philosophy and the Law and Gender Jurisprudence. She was the recipient of Mark E. Grady and Frederick W. Hess Memorial Scholarship for academic excellence. Her undergraduate degree was awarded by Moscow State Moris Thores Institute of Foreign Languages, where she studied French, Russian, Latin, and English.


Ms. Mdivani lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband, two children, and her father.