Our Team

Mitchell J. Goldberg, B.A., LL.B.

Mitchell J. Goldberg, B.A. (Carleton University) 1981; LL.B. (University of Quebec in Montreal [UQAM]) 1987, was admitted to the Quebec Bar Association as a lawyer in 1989. He began his Montreal based refugee and immigration law practice after volunteering for a human rights organization in Guatemala.

Mitchell’s law practice focuses on immigration and refugee litigation, including family sponsorship appeals, residency obligation appeals and admissibility appeals. He regularly represents clients before all four divisions of the Immigration and Refugee Board, as well as the Federal Court. He also represents clients in their refugee claims and applications for family class sponsorship and permanent residence on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.

Mitchell speaks English, French, and Spanish.

Mitchell regularly lectures on refugee law to lawyers, NGOs, and students. He has also appeared before parliamentary committees reviewing refugee, immigration and citizenship bills on behalf of the Canadian Bar Association, the Quebec Bar Association, the Canadian Council for Refugees, and the Jewish Refugee Action Network.

Mitchell is a Co-Founder, Past President, and Honorary Executive Member of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers.

Mary-Lou Roberts Docherty, Legal Assistant

Mary-Lou Roberts Docherty has a B.A. in Applied Social Science from Concordia University in Montreal (1995). She is the daughter of Dutch immigrants who came to Canada in 1953.

She began working in the field of refugees in 1989, first as a volunteer and later in 1995 as a front line worker in a shelter for women and children asylum seekers. She was the private refugee sponsorship coordinator at Action Réfugiés Montréal from 2009 to 2013 (part-time).

She has been working for Mitchell Goldberg since 2008.