Taylor Gillhamer is an immigration attorney at Brudner Law in Irvine, California. She was admitted to the Oregon State Bar in 2020 and is licensed to practice immigration law in all 50 states. She is also a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Third Circuit Bar Association. Taylor's practice covers a broad range of immigration matters, including naturalization and certificates of citizenship, family-based adjustment of status, consular processing, complex responses to Requests for Evidence, and humanitarian relief such as DACA advance parole, VAWA, and T and U visas.

Taylor holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia, where she completed a double major in Sociology and Romance Languages, with an emphasis in French and Spanish, in just three and a half years. She earned her law degree from the University of Oregon, with a concentration in family law and a particular focus on advocacy for survivors of domestic violence. During law school, she tutored first-year students in legal research and writing, worked as a graduate teaching assistant for undergraduate courses in criminal law and procedure, and gained hands-on experience at a family-based mediation firm. She spent a summer with the Legal Aid Society of San Diego, supporting clients through domestic violence restraining orders, housing disputes, and conservatorship proceedings. She also served as the Executive Editor of the Oregon Law Review Journal.

After graduating at the top of her law school class, Taylor began her legal career as a staff attorney at the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, where she spent three years working on complex immigration cases alongside habeas corpus, criminal, and civil matters. She later joined a boutique removal defense firm, concentrating on asylum claims for survivors of domestic violence, before moving to a national firm specializing in humanitarian filings before USCIS, including VAWA cases for domestic violence victims and T visas for trafficking victims. She joined Brudner Law in May 2025.

From the earliest days of her career, Taylor has been drawn to advocating for women, children, and survivors of violence--the most vulnerable members of our communities. That commitment continues to shape her practice today, as she strives to take on every case with empathy and compassion while also obtaining the best result possible for each client.

Outside the office, Taylor can usually be found traveling across the country and around the world with her partner and their dog, Harley. She is a lifelong student of foreign language, an avid reader, and a devoted yoga student. Her biggest goal in life is to bring more light and love to all she encounters.