| Biography:
Avram Morell joined Proskauer Rose LLP as an associate in the Firm's Labor
and Employment Law Department, specializing in immigration law and litigation.
Avi's experience includes a wide range of areas of immigration and nationality
law, including counseling businesses in the hiring of foreign employees; obtaining
immigrant and non-immigrant visas for professionals in a variety of industries;
assisting employers in complying with the I-9 verification requirements; persuading
the government to waive the two-year home country residence requirement for
certain J-1 visa holders; and litigating complex political asylum and Convention
Against Torture cases. He also has experience in civil and matrimonial litigation. Avi was named an “Associate to Watch” in the 2007 edition of Chambers USA.
Avi is a graduate of Yeshiva University, cum laude, where he studied
political science. He received his law degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo School
of Law, where he was a Samuel Belkin Scholar. While at Cardozo, Avi represented
indigent clients at the Bet Tzedek Legal Services Clinic and participated in
the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program. He clerked for the Honorable Karla Moskowitz
of the New York Supreme Court in New York City, who heard civil and matrimonial
cases.
Avi is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He is admitted
to practice in New Jersey State and Federal courts as well as in the courts
of New York State. He is the author of articles on areas of immigration law
in state-wide, national and international publications, and he has contributed
to Immigration Law and Procedure, the leading treatise on immigration
law. Avi is fluent in Hebrew.
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