About Sharon
Sharon Barney earned her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law after finishing a B.A. in English at the University of Rochester. Her academic document combines humanities education with expert legal education. That background formed an early curiosity in public-curiosity regulation and services for people dealing with housing, family, and immigration challenges.
Her practice path has been steady and sundry. She served as a staff lawyer at the Centre County Women’s Resource Center in 2011, working directly with clients on matters that frequently intersected with household and protection issues. In 2013 she worked as a lawyer for the International Institute of New England, a submit that uncovered her to immigration-associated instances and the needs of recent arrivals. In 2014 she opened the Law Office of Sharon Barney and also began providing pro bono help thru MidPenn Legal Services. In 2016 she took a counsel role at Leech Tishman. Those roles reflect a mixture of nonprofit and private-practice knowledge.
Barney keeps active ties to professional and network organizations. She has been a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association since 2013 and belongs to the American Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and the Centre County Bar Association. She is also involved in nearby teams such as Community Diversity Group and volunteers with Global Connections. For one year she served at the board of the Peaceful Hearts Foundation. Her ongoing volunteer legal work and network volunteering are constant with years spent in legal aid and service-orientated practices.
Her caseload has covered immigration cases and civil legal help for low-income clients, often where immigration issues overlap with household law and survivors’ services. She has treated direct client representation, health facility work, and case management in each nonprofit and private settings. In current years she has cut up time between her personal practice things to do and roles that join her to a regional regulation company. She practices in Pennsylvania and continues to provide both paid representation and pro bono legal offerings, especially in immigration and civil legal help matters.
