Josephine Gagliardi has been in solo practice since 1990. She is a graduate of Antioch School of Law in Washington, DC and she did her undergraduate work at the University of Pittsburgh. She is admitted to the Florida and District of Columbia Bars. She is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Ms. Gagliardi began her legal career with Florida Rural Legal Services of Fort Myers and Immokalee, Florida. She limits her practice to the areas of Federal and State - Criminal and Civil Law, Domestic Relations Law and Immigration Law.

Ms. Gagliardi is the past recipient of the Florida Bar President's Pro Bono Service Award for the years 1996 and 2000. She is past president of the Lee County Bar Association, she was a member of the U.S. Middle District of Florida - Grievance Committee, the Florida Bar - Unlicenced Practice of Law Committee, SW Florida Association for Women Lawyers, the SW Florida Federal Bar Association, the Calusa Inn of Court, the Legal Aid Society Board and the Central Florida American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Among her many contributions for AILA, she served as Chair for the two day October, 2002 Continuing Legal Education seminar in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Ms. Gagliardi is involved in her community through her membership on the Lee County United Way Board, Rotary International South, and SW FL Hispanic Chamber of Commerce . She is fluent in both Spanish and Italian.

Gerald Seipp was admitted to the New York bar in 1973. He has been practicing Immigration Law for over 20 years. He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1972. He started his legal career as a VISTA lawyer assigned to a Legal Aid office in rural Western, New York , where his primary clientele were migrant farm workers. After 4 years of legal services work he joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School . In addition to serving as Clinical Instructor, he taught substantive courses on Welfare Law and Mental Health Law. His Clinical courses emphasized representation of children and families on special education matters. After 4 years of service as Clinical Instructor, Mr. Seipp returned to his former legal services office for one year to direct the 3 county program. In 1982 he joined a Buffalo , New York law firm where he initially concentrated his practice on special education litigation and Social Security disability. He became a partner of the firm in 1989, and the firm was named "Serotte, Reich & Seipp". He began litigating Immigration cases in 1983, and his practice eventually became concentrated in all facets of Immigration Law. In addition to his private practice, he returned to the Buffalo Law School and served on the adjunct faculty, creating and teaching the Immigration Law course for 15 years, from 1988 until 2002. He has authored numerous articles and presented at several American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) annual and local conferences. He authored the January 2002 West Group Immigration Briefing on the topic of Aggravated felons and the August and September, 2003 Briefings on Waivers of Inadmissibility. [For a more complete Publication/Presentation Listing CLICK HERE]. Mr. Seipp is past Chair for the Upstate New York AILA Chapter. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America under Immigration Law . For many years, he has served for the AILA mentor program on the topic of waivers. In February of 2005, Mr. Seipp was admitted to the Florida bar.