About Siana
Siana McLean is an attorney admitted to practice in New York. She trained in Canada and the United States, earning an undergraduate background in history and criminology before turning to law. Her career combines public interest work, private practice and roles that intersect with immigration matters.
McLean completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto in 1999, where she read history and criminology. She later attended the State University of New York at Buffalo, receiving her Juris Doctor in 2007. Her education set a foundation for work that would move between courtroom representation and client counseling in both nonprofit and private settings.
Her early legal work began in western New York. In 2010 she joined the Niagara County Legal Aid Society as a staff lawyer. There she represented clients who could not afford private counsel and worked on a range of civil matters. The following year she moved into private immigration practice, joining Jeremy Richards Immigration Law as a lawyer in 2011. That position involved casework on immigration files and client advocacy before government agencies.
McLean’s career then shifted between firms and roles that mixed advisory and litigation responsibilities. She served as Of Counsel at Muscato & Shatkin, LLP in 2012, took on a senior counsel role at Tully Rinckey, PLLC in 2015, and returned as Of Counsel to Muscato & Shatkin in 2018. Those positions placed her in firms that handle immigration and related civil matters, and allowed her to bring experience from legal aid into a private practice setting.
Her practice is based in Buffalo, where she has maintained an office presence. She works from Muscato & Shatkin’s Buffalo office and has handled cases that require coordination with regional courts and administrative bodies. Colleagues describe her as steady in court and thorough in preparation. She is licensed in New York and continues to practice there.
As of 2026 McLean maintains an active role at Muscato & Shatkin, LLP, carrying a caseload that draws on her background in immigration law and public interest representation. She practices from the firm’s Buffalo office, and her work centers on immigration and related civil matters.
