Steven Quezada

Steven Quezada is a Senior Associate in the Dallas office of Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP. He represents Fortune 500 companies throughout Silicon Valley and advises them in matters before the U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and U.S. Department of State. He focuses his practice on employment-based immigration matters in the United States and is involved with management of the PERM program for one of the firm’s largest clients in the technology industry. He has experience in immigrant and nonimmigrant matters including: TN, H, and L visas, PERM-based and EB-1 multinational manager immigrant visa petitions, and adjustment of status applications. He also handles family-based immigration matters including I-130 petitions and petitions to remove conditions.

Prior to joining BAL, Steven represented oil & gas corporations in the upstream and downstream sectors including land title and royalty disputes, right-of-way easements, and hydraulic fracturing regulation in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and the Permian Basin shale play in Texas and New Mexico. During law school, Steven clerked for the 371st District Court of Texas reviewing criminal post-conviction writs of habeas corpus and volunteered at the Innocence Project of Texas that provided representation to wrongfully convicted individuals and sought to obtain exonerations through DNA testing. Steven is admitted to practice in the State of Texas, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.