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Immigration regulation agency will broaden almost 10% with addition of Seyfarth Shaw crew
About 90 attorneys and employees members are shifting from Seyfarth Shaw to BAL, increasing by nearly 10% the pinnacle depend of the immigration regulation agency previously referred to as Berry Appleman & Leiden. (Picture from Shutterstock)
Up to date: About 90 attorneys and employees members are shifting from Seyfarth Shaw to BAL, increasing by nearly 10% the pinnacle depend of the immigration regulation agency previously referred to as Berry Appleman & Leiden.
The group consists of six companions who’re amongst 21 attorneys making the transfer, in response to Law360. Law.com, nonetheless, says about 18 attorneys are leaving Seyfarth Shaw for the brand new agency.
The precise quantity relies on acceptance of BAL’s presents, Jeremy Fudge, CEO of of the regulation agency, instructed Regulation.com and Law360.
BAL will open a brand new Atlanta workplace to accommodate the enlargement, in response to an April 29 press release. It will likely be the agency’s thirteenth U.S. workplace. Among the shifting attorneys will probably be in different places of work, nonetheless.
Seyfarth Shaw chair and managing accomplice Lorie Almon indicated that the choice to go away was mutual.
Seyfarth Shaw and its immigration group “all agreed that their follow can be greatest positioned at a boutique immigration-only agency with a distinct mannequin and platform than ours,” Almon mentioned within the press launch. “This transfer aligns with the strategic imaginative and prescient of each Seyfarth and the immigration group.”
Seyfarth Shaw instructed Law360 in a press release that its “world mobility crew” will proceed to work on advanced enterprise immigration issues, and attorneys on that crew will stay at Seyfarth Shaw.
Up to date April 30 at 4:50 p.m. to appropriately determine the immigration regulation agency as BAL.