I am honored and delighted that a colleague and friend whom I respect and admire has been nominated by President Obama for a position in the nation's highest court, as U.S. Supreme Court Justice. I have had the opportunity to get to know Dean Kagan...
The Baltimore Business Journal has published its 2010 Book of Lists, and I'm proud to say that the Murthy Law Firm is well represented in several key categories. We are now - drum roll, please! - the 43rd largest law firm in the Baltimore area....
It seems nothing short of a miracle that Detroit-bound Flight 253 was not blown up on Christmas Day 2009, when a Nigerian man tried to detonate a bomb hidden on his person! As we all know by now, the man came alarmingly close to carrying...
In a recent posting, the MurthyBlog discussed the prospects for comprehensive immigration reform in 2010, stressing the dangers of postponing action on this issue any longer. As we said in that posting (See: Immigration Reform ASAP, Dec 21, 2009), the economic stakes of inaction have...
Gosh, I could not believe my ears! USCIS fee increases? We hear some rumblings from the USCIS director about another possible USCIS fee increase and I thought to myself, "You've got to be kidding!" How is this possible? If the USCIS were a regular American...
The current immigration system is overtaxed, whether one looks at application backlogs for family-based or employment-based visas, or at the millions of illegal immigrants who stream across the border each year in search of jobs in the underground economy. Immigration reform is long overdue, and...
It is twenty years ago that the Berlin Wall came crashing down, amid wild celebration and a collective sigh of relief that the Cold War was at last coming to an end - not with a bang, but with music and dancing and noisy jubilation....
A little more than a week before Thanksgiving, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick went public with his New Americans Agenda, a comprehensive report on the state of immigrants in Massachusetts, complete with an ambitious list of action items - 131 in all - that are designed...
Last week, when CNN anchor Lou Dobbs unexpectedly resigned from his position, one couldn't help but wonder whether his managers at CNN had simply had enough. By the time Dobbs left CNN - whether he was pushed out or not - he had become a...
The New York Times reports that Sergey Brin, billionaire entrepreneur and co-founder of Google, has donated $1 million to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), the organization that helped his family to resettle in the United States, fleeing the anti-Semitism of the Soviet Union, thirty...
