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McLean, VA 22102
VIRGINIA
United States
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BAL > The Legal 500 Rankings

Labor and employment > Immigration Tier 1

With an extensive coast to coast presence, BAL remains a market leader in global corporate immigration providing a full-service offering to leading Fortune 100 and Global 500 companies across the technology, IT, pharmaceutical and retail sectors. With extensive experience in all business immigration law matters at the intersection of global policy issues, managing partner Jeremy Fudge oversees the group’s practice out of Texas. With a focus on corporate immigration policies for energy, engineering and technology sector clients, Roberto Caballero heads the Houston office. Out of San Francisco, Frieda Garcia  oversees the management of large immigration programs for companies in technology, finance and travel services. Texas-based Kortney Gibson is recommended for her expertise in creating innovative and customized solutions for clients’ specific labor issues. Having previously served as Chief Counsel of USCIS, Lynden Melmed in Washington DC has a specific government-focused practice which makes him a key contact for corporate immigration policy strategy and high-profile matters including anti-fraud investigations. According to clients, Nassim Mahzoon, chair of the firm’s Santa Clara office who represents some of the leading tech companies in Silicon Valley ‘is a delight to work with’.

Practice head(s):

Jeremy Fudge

Other key lawyers:

Roberto Caballero; Kortney Gibson; Frieda Garcia; Lynden Melmed; Nassim Mahzoon

Testimonials

‘Adam Moses always replies quickly with detailed/requested information. My manager and I always appreciate his strong partnership. He always input all the necessary information so that I don’t have to follow up with him to seek more information/clarification etc. He also always customer focus. He listens to our business objectives and issues and suggest how to suport and overcome etc.’

‘What makes Berry Appleman & Leiden (BAL) unique in the legal market is their collaborative approach and their firmwide pursuit of the exceptional. They are always open to exploring new ways to partner together, maintain compliance, improve our program, and improve the immigration experience for our foreign national employees.’

‘BAL has a wide network of attorneys that can be leveraged in complex legal scenarios. This makes solutions easy to come by, and in turn, makes my job as a program manager easier. Their internal technology platform is easy to use. Reporting is easy. Billing is tailored to our company and seamless.’

‘The team is easily approachable and always reachable. Stand out firm members are Ruth Clark and Lauren Randle.’

Work highlights

BAL > Firm Profile

The firm: BAL focuses exclusively on corporate immigration law and provides the full scope of global immigration services including work permits, residence permits, and consular and document services in over 135 countries. BAL manages, regionally administers and locally delivers the global immigration programs of clients worldwide with the support of network partner(s). With the benefits of a single platform, BAL drives a positive experience for clients’ employees: one worldwide database for employee cases; one system for worldwide reporting; one contract; consolidated worldwide billing; and overall ownership to ensure BAL meets clients’ program goals and SLAs.

Main areas of practice
Worldwide immigration: BAL focuses exclusively on corporate immigration law and provides the full scope of global immigration services including work permits, residence permits, and consular and document services in over 135 countries.

Government relations: BAL is the industry leader in helping clients around the world understand, navigate, and shape immigration law and policy. BAL’s government affairs team is the only immigration law firm in Washington D.C. comprised of former government officials who served at the US Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, and the Senate Judiciary Committee. This team leverages relationships and insights to help companies and individuals navigate challenging immigration issues. Federal and state governments often seek BAL’s expertise in drafting policies and regulations, and BAL attorneys frequently offer formal and informal testimony to authorities around the world.

Global compliance: BAL aids corporations to comply with the laws of all countries and manage a dispersed workforce. BAL offers comprehensive I-9 and E-Verify services in the US to promote compliance with legal requirements for verifying the employment eligibility

Consultative services: BAL assists clients in developing the right immigration programs and the right policies that underpin them. Through dedicated consultants and cross-functional project management, BAL helps manage the shifts and complexities of global immigration due to changes in immigration law, M&As, restructuring or layoffs.

Advanced technology: BAL provides clients proprietary state-of-the-art technology to process, track and manage global programs. With an integrated system that presents all worldwide cases within one database, Cobalt® enables the best opportunities for customised case control and management. With Cobalt, BAL is the first immigration law firm to offer a mobile app to support corporate clients and employees. BAL is an ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified provider and maintains privacy compliance from EEA and Switzerland through Model Contracts, as well as Swiss Safe Harbor and EU-US Privacy Shield Frameworks. Where BAL collects and uses personal data about individuals in the European Union, it complies with all applicable data protection laws.

Knowledge management: BAL’s industry-leading knowledge management department tracks thousands of regulatory changes annually and continuously embeds immigration intelligence into BAL’s proprietary database, information libraries, and client deliverables. BAL keeps clients up to the minute on changes and enables them to understand how changes are going to affect their employees on the ground and essential decisions on business planning and program strategy.

Main Contacts

Department Name Email Telephone
CEO Jeremy Fudge jeremy@bal.com +1-469-654-3200
Managing Partner Frieda Garcia fgarcia@bal.com +1-628-215-2800

Staff Figures

Number of Partners : 20
Number of Other Fee-Earners : 116
Total Staff : 1,000+

Languages

Afrikaans
Arabic
English
French
German
Hindi
Italian
Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin)
Malay
Marathi
Portuguese
Punjabi
Russian
Spanish
Tagalog
Telugu
Vietnamese

Other

Managing Partner : Jeremy Fudge (jfudge@balglobal.com)
Partners : Vernadette Antonio
Partners : David Berry
Partners : Roberto Caballero
Partners : Liane Cooney
Partners : Larry Drumm
Partners : Michelle Funk
Partners : Frieda Garcia
Partners : Delya Ghosh
Partners : Kortney Gibson
Partners : Lynden Melmed
Partners : Jessica Mullins-Ta
Partners : Edward Rios
Partners : Paul Rynerson
Partners : Petra Tang
Partners : Carla Tarazi
Partners : Susan Wehrer
Partners : Ruth Clark
Partners : Stephanie Wolf
Partners : Robert S. Groban