Noemi Masliah Selected by SuperLawyers as "Seriously Outstanding"

Seriously Outstanding

only 5% selected each year

This month Noemi Masliah was selected as on of the few "seriously outstanding" attorneys in the field of immigration and nationality law in the New York metropolitan area.

Jorge Campos, Fabrice Van Michel Join M & S

This year we welcomed two recent LLM graduates to the firm. Both have sat for the New York Bar exam and both look forward to applying for admission to the bar soon. Together they represent a diverse background of life experiences, education and employment histories. They are now hard at work as law clerks alongside the attorneys in our office working on issues ranging from employment and family based immigration to asylum applications.

Jorge Campos has been engaged in detailed analytic international law issues for more than eight years. Between 2001 and 2005, Jorge served as an attorney for Grupo ICA in Mexico City, providing legal advice in connection with international financial transactions and labor law. Between 1996 and 2001 he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Mexico City as an in-house counsel providing legal advice on a broad range of issues including immigration and labor law, employee benefits, tax and corporate law. In 2006, he received his LLM from Fordham University in Information Technology and Intellectual Property. Prior to that he received his MBA from Thunderbird, the International School of Business Management in Glendale, Arizona. In 1999 he received his masters in Labor Law from Universidad Tecnologica de Mexico in Mexico City and was admitted to practice in Mexico in the same year, Jorge Campos received his law degree in 1997 from Universidad Tecnologica de Mexico in Mexico city He is fluent in English and Spanish.

Fabrice Van Michel is a native of Belgium but was raised in Germany and France. With a focus on immigration, he obtained a law degree at the University of the Sorbonne in Paris, a Master’s degree in European studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, and a second Master’s degree in Human Rights at the University of Louvain. For several years thereafter he practiced immigration and asylum law at the Conseil d'Etat, the highest administrative court in Belgium. Fluent in French, German, English, and Spanish, he co-authored the publication "Freedom of Movement of Persons", a discourse on worker immigration throughout the European Union, a subject he further explored while volunteering with the NGO "Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants" (PICUM). In 2008, Fabrice completed his LL.M at Columbia Law School in New York City as a Fulbright scholar.

Wendy Erdly Joins Masliah & Soloway

Wendy Erdly joined Masliah & Soloway in the spring of 2008 and has been actively involved in our business immigration practice, including all non-immigrant visa matters (e.g., E-1, E-2, H-1B, L-1A, L-1B, and O-1 petitions), PERM Labor Certifications, and Employment-based First Preference (EB-1) cases for aliens of extraordinary ability.

Ms. Erdly received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Lafayette College in 1999, where she was Phi Beta Kappa. In 2002, Ms. Erdly received her J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School where she was a Dean's List student, the Chief Justice of the Moot Court Board and the recipient of the school’s award for Scholastic Excellence in Constitutional Law. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Erdly was a litigation associate with Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP where she prosecuted securities fraud cases and represented public pension fund clients in litigation recoveries in excess of $300 million. Earlier in her career, Ms. Erdly practiced with Dewey Ballantine where she focused on securities fraud and white collar criminal defense cases (including internal investigations and SEC investigations). Ms. Erdly’s experience with complex business matters and representation of corporate and public clients gives her unique insight into the needs of corporate clients and their immigration issues. ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, New York, (2003). U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, (2004). Also a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.