The Independent College Fund of Maryland - also known as the I-Fund - honored Sheela Murthy at their Evening of Excellence celebration, held in the Athenaeum of Goucher College on February 8, 2012. Murthy is the proud recipient of this year's I-Fund Leadership Award, a...
On a warm fall weekend, just before Thanksgiving, the Murthy Law Firm family gathered at the Hyatt Resort in Cambridge, Maryland, for a weekend retreat. Lawyers and staff members were joined by their families and significant others for an overnight getaway on the eastern reaches...
Summer has come and gone, and even fall is on the wane, as the trees drop the last of their leaves, still glowing in sunset colors and blowing around the yard. Almost four hundred years ago, in 1621, the Pilgrims marked this time of year...
On October 28, 1886, President Grover Cleveland stood before a crowd of dignitaries on Bedloe's Island, in New York harbor, to dedicate what was to become an iconic symbol of human striving for freedom: the Statue of Liberty. President Cleveland said Lady Liberty's "stream of...
Much has been written about the army of high-tech workers who come to the United States each year to work in the IT industry. It's less well known that school districts across the country increasingly are turning to overseas talent to fill teaching vacancies in...
Murthy Sends Legal Opinion Letter to Indian Government OfficialsA request came to Sheela Murthy for a legal opinion letter regarding the Tri-Valley student situation. The letter was sent to Secretary Nirupama Rao, Ministry of External Affairs and S.M. Krishna, Minister of External Affairs. Ms. Murthy's...
As MurthyDotCom and several major newspapers reported last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shut down Tri-Valley University, located in the San Francisco Bay area, alleging it helped foreign students to gain student immigration papers illegally. (See NewsFlash! ICE Raid at Tri-Valley University Impacts...
Several hundred Indian students now face immigration proceedings, including possible removal (deportation), due to the massive immigration fraud that Tri-Valley University allegedly perpetrated, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. According to the Economic Times, the Indian Embassy is offering assistance to these...
In the January issue of Baltimore's Urbanite magazine, the cover story discusses several path-breaking social innovations that they predict will play a large role in improving life in Baltimore - and in the world beyond - in the coming year. (See Locally Grown: Ten Bright...
Last week, we at the Murthy Law Firm held our annual holiday party in the Rockland Center of the new - and growing - Owings Mills campus of Stevenson University. The room was alive with laughter and animated conversation, livelier still with the opening of...
