Mr James Vazquez-Azpiri > Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Offices
101 PARK AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10178-0060
NEW YORK
United States
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Mr James Vazquez-Azpiri
Work Department
Latin America Team; Immigration
Position
James counsels corporate clients on hiring and retaining foreign employees in his business immigration law practice. He advises businesses on labor certifications, specialty occupation petitions, and intracompany transfers. Clients rely on James for guidance through immigration law compliance during mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings. He helps clients think and work proactively by providing them with traditional compliance policy reviews and audits, case management and litigation technology, and international executive travel and foreign resident worker visa processing. A co-head of the firm’s global immigration practice, James is part of Morgan Lewis’s cross-practice Global Workforce team. The group provides integrated cross-border advice, counseling, and strategic planning across the spectrum of labor, employment, benefits, and immigration issues. Legal and human rights groups have acclaimed James’s pro bono work. He has received both the C. Anthony Friedrich Memorial Award from the International Human Rights Law Group and the Wiley W. Manuel Award for Pro Bono Legal Services from the State Bar of California.
Career
Before joining Morgan Lewis, James was a partner at a San Francisco-based firm. He also served as an adjunct attorney for the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform.
Languages
Fluent in Spanish.
Memberships
American Immigration Lawyers’ Association member; Hispanic National Bar Association member
Education
University of St. Andrews, BA; Scotland; Princeton University, MA; New York University School of Law, JD; Harvard Law School, LL.M.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- International Trade > CFIUS
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Finance > Project finance
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Transport > Rail and road: finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
- Government > State attorneys general
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Industry focus > Sport
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense