Morgan Lewis Continues to Expand in Northern California Adds Premier Immigration Partners from Cooley Godward and IP Partner from Dechert
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01/05/2005 -
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Morgan Lewis announces the expansion of its immigration practice with the addition of Cooley Godward attorneys Lance Nagel, 59, and A. James Vazquez-Azpiri, 42. The addition will add high-level inbound immigration capacity on the West Coast, and will further support outbound immigration services—placing American workers in foreign countries—to large corporate clients, including Japanese and Korean companies and technology companies in the Silicon Valley.
The Firm also increases its Northern California presence with the addition of David C. Bohrer, 47, who joins the Palo Alto office as a partner in the intellectual property litigation group. Mr. Bohrer, whose practice focuses on patent litigation, was formerly with the Palo Alto office of Dechert.
The San Francisco-based immigration team led by Lance Nagel includes an associate and a team of paralegals who are exclusively dedicated to immigration law. This expansion exponentially enhances Morgan Lewis’ existing immigration presence and gives clients on the West Coast immediate access to immigration legal services within their own time zone.
The new partners bring with them a substantial practice with many impressive clients in Asia and the Silicon Valley—several of which already call upon Morgan Lewis lawyers for representation regarding intellectual property, employment and corporate law matters. Morgan Lewis provides companies with the full range of immigration law services, including compliance, outbound international services, training, and corporate management. Mr. Nagel and Mr. Vazquez-Azpiri have also established a comprehensive outbound practice and have tremendous experience in the Asian corporate market—a capacity that meshes well with Morgan Lewis’ strong Asian company practice, as well as its growth in corporate and intellectual property law in California.
Morgan Lewis currently provides immigration services through an entrepreneurial division, Morgan Lewis Resources.
About Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Morgan Lewis is a global law firm with 1,200 lawyers in 19 offices located in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Chicago, Palo Alto, Dallas, Harrisburg, Irvine, Boston, London, Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt and Tokyo.
A unique practice informed by the vast intellectual property and up-to-the-minute collective knowledge and skills of the entire firm, MLR provides innovative solutions and pricing structures that help corporate clients across industries and geographic regions meet increasingly demanding federal regulatory requirements. We help clients think and work proactively by providing them with traditional compliance policy reviews and audits, case management and litigation technology, workplace training, and international executive travel and foreign resident worker visa processing.