Stephen W Manning
Attorney & Executive Director
Innovation Law Lab
stephen@innovationlawlab.org
Portland, Oregon, USA

Area of expertise: asylum, litigation, client interviewing

Stephen W Manning is an attorney in Portland, Oregon. He is a founding partner of Immigrant Law Group PC and the founder and director of the Innovation Law Lab, a non-profit that is equal parts software engineers, immigrant rights lawyers, and community organizers who work together to advance immigrant and refugee justice.

Considered the most innovative lawyer in North America for 2017, he is an Ashoka Changemaker Fellow, the recipient of the 2015 AILA Founders Award for the person who had the most impact on immigration policy for his work in combating family detention, 2010 Jack Wasserman Memorial Award for Excellence in Immigration Litigation, the 2009 Edith Lowenstein Memorial Award for Excellence in Advancing the Practice of Immigration Law, the 2008 Gerald R Robinson Award for Excellence in Immigration Litigation, a Bill & Ann Shepard Law Scholar and other awards and recognition.