Stanley Mailman, a prominent immigration lawyer who wrote columns on immigration law for the Law Journal for 30 years, died Saturday. He was 86.

“He was short in stature and a giant in immigration law,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr, who is of counsel at Miller Mayer in Ithaca and co-authored the immigration law column with Mailman for 10 years. “He was very kind-hearted. He was a mentor to me and a lot of people in immigration law.”