Mayor of Richardson Recognizes Immigration Trailblazer BAL for ‘Tremendous’ Community Service

DALLAS (Jan. 26, 2023) — Pacesetting global immigration firm BAL was lauded last night by the mayor of the city of Richardson, Texas, in the annual State of the City address. The environmentally minded law firm set a record by providing the largest group of volunteers to partake in the city’s Community and Corporate Environmental Cleanup
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Leading Immigration Firm BAL Promotes Five Attorneys to Partner

Dallas (Jan. 6, 2023) — BAL, the world’s leading corporate immigration law firm, promoted five of its attorneys to Partner this month: Shehryar Chaudhry, Haesung Kim, Amy Lighter, Stephanie Pimentel and Michael Sela. Shehryar Chaudhry provides strategic counsel to companies from BAL’s San Francisco office, managing immigration programs for companies in the technology sector and providing
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BAL Opens Los Angeles Office, Headquartering Sports & Entertainment Immigration Practice

DALLAS (Nov. 15, 2022) — Award-winning immigration firm BAL has opened a Los Angeles office focused on sports and entertainment immigration. Building upon its representation of major league sports teams, international athletic organizations and leading entertainment studios, BAL now provides a dedicated boutique for these efforts in the LA office, supported by the firm’s nationwide
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BAL Named Best Place to Work in Dallas Fort Worth

Employees Give Firm an A+ on Culture BAL has won the Best Place to Work accolade for the Dallas Metropolitan Area 2022 by Comparably, one of only 15 companies selected for the honor. The award-winning corporate immigration firm scored an “A+” for culture and ranked seventh on Comparably’s vaunted list. Comparably also ranked BAL a
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BAL Leads U.S. Corporate Immigration in Elite Lawdragon Rankings

Dallas, Nov. 12, 2021 – Eight BAL attorneys are named to the elite Lawdragon® ranking of corporate employment lawyers, leading all other corporate immigration firms. In the newly released 2022 Lawdragon rankings, which recognize only 500 of the nation’s top employment attorneys, BAL is the most cited firm for immigration, representing 12% of the 65 ranked
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BAL recognized by Law360 for female attorney representation, ‘leading its peers at the partner level’

DALLAS, Sept. 14, 2021 – Game-changing immigration firm Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP (BAL) has been honored by the Law360 Glass Ceiling Report once again for its industry-leading strides in gender equity. BAL ranked second in its size category for percentage of female attorneys and partners, and bested all other firms in its category for
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17 BAL Attorneys Named ‘Best Lawyers in America,’ 5 BAL Attorneys Named ‘Ones to Watch’ by Best Lawyers®

DALLAS, Aug. 19, 2021 –  Seventeen BAL attorneys have been recognized as Best Lawyers in America and five BAL attorneys have been named Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in immigration law by Best Lawyers®. Their names will appear in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, the only purely peer-review guide to the
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