Immigration
USA Guide 2024 : District of Columbia
Band 1
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Provided by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Morgan Lewis’s immigration practice helps multinational employers to manage the full range of business-related immigration and global mobility needs. We combine the personalized service and individual attention of a boutique immigration practice with the international resources of one of the world’s largest law firms. Our practice is tightly integrated with our elite global labor and employment practice—allowing us to provide our clients with cohesive advice on all of their international employment and immigration issues and needs. Our immigration team members are part of a multidisciplinary global workforce team that collaborates to provide integrated cross-border advice, counseling, and strategic planning on all legal aspects of the global movement of personnel.
Our clients rely on our demonstrated ability to handle complex immigration matters regardless of jurisdiction. Beyond comprehensive, general business immigration services in the United States and the United Kingdom, we offer our corporate clients proficiency in several key immigration-related subspecialties—including non-US visas and work permits, foreign employment laws, British citizenship, taxation, compliance, personal immigration services, and the immigration consequences arising from corporate transactions. We offer experience in the immigration requirements and processes of more than 120 countries.
Chambers Review
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is a full-service firm with a superb immigration practice boasting an impressive list of corporate clients. The team is able to draw on significant global resources to assist clients with international immigration programs. Their areas of expertise include US and non-US visas, taxation and the immigration aspects of M&A. Its lawyers act for a wide range of clients, from multinationals and mid-sized businesses to startups, and advise companies from the technology, energy and life sciences sectors, among others. The firm is also experienced representing clients in immigration compliance matters.
Work Highlights
- Morgan, Lewis & Bockius advised DHL on a variety of immigration matters, including compliance counseling and management of the company's rotational assignment program and in particular L and E visa registrations.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Thanks to their huge team with diverse skills and knowledge, Morgan Lewis have a superior ability to handle complex corporate immigration matters."
"The service is responsive and proactive. They're absolutely fabulous at handling complex matters and very politically in the loop."
"The team is extremely knowledgeable and provides a truly great service. They are so responsive it is almost immediate, and always thoroughly researched."
"Thanks to their huge team with diverse skills and knowledge, Morgan Lewis have a superior ability to handle complex corporate immigration matters."
"The service is responsive and proactive. They're absolutely fabulous at handling complex matters and very politically in the loop."
"The team is extremely knowledgeable and provides a truly great service. They are so responsive it is almost immediate, and always thoroughly researched."
Notable Practitioners
Eleanor Pelta continues to advise on complex immigration matters as they relate to M&A transactions, regularly assisting with both the transfer of individual executives and high-volume workforces. She is respected throughout the legal profession for her many years' experience.
"Eleanor combines impressive knowledge with a practical approach."
"She provides top, expert-level advice and is very responsive."
"Eleanor is a great adviser. She is well informed, well connected and extremely collaborative."
"She is a force to be reckoned with."
Eric Bord handles an array of immigration matters, including those relating to DOJ investigations and compliance issues. In the latter field he often works on I-9 and E-Verify compliance mandates.
"Eric is extremely well versed in all aspects of immigration law and extremely well recognized in the field. He is thorough and thoughtful, good at calming situations and being matter of fact."
"He is very thorough and has a way of delivering a message that gets understood. He is also so experienced that he knows what the potential objections will be and how to overcome them."
Shannon Donnelly regularly advises on immigration policy and compliance, with noteworthy expertise concerning remote working entitlements among other issues.
"Shannon is the future of the firm."
Ranked Lawyers at
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
District of Columbia