Each year, the United Way of Central Maryland (UWCM) presents the Clementine Peterson Award to an outstanding member of its Women's Leadership Council (WLC). At a ceremony on June 26, 2014, the UWCM conferred this prestigious honor on Sheela Murthy, founder and president of the...
Digital technology permeates every aspect of our lives, from the cars we drive to the cell phones we carry, even to the appliances in our kitchens and laundry rooms. Any company that wants to compete in this IT-intensive world needs to hire the smartest, most...
Want to rebuild America's cities? Immigration just might be the answer, argues Michael Bloomberg, the self-made billionaire philanthropist and former New York City mayor. In a recent speech to a group that promotes entrepreneurship, Mr. Bloomberg, "said that offering citizenship to entrepreneurial immigrants is the...
Herewith, a dispatch from the "who'd have thought?" department of the MurthyBlog: as regular readers will have noted in recent months, support for immigration reform has been getting ever more bipartisan; it's no longer just the Democrats who are behind it. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)...
Several members of the Murthy Law Firm family joined leaders of Maryland's business, philanthropic, academic, and political communities at the Associated Black Charities (ABC) 2014 Annual Gala, held on June 14, 2014, at Martin's West in Baltimore County. More than 1,000 people gathered for this...
Fear seems to be driving the recent surge of unaccompanied minors who have been crossing the southwestern border of the United States. The children - largely from Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, and Guatemala - are fleeing an epidemic of gang violence in their home countries,...
On June 10th, House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, was soundly defeated in the Virginia Republican Party's primary election, which determined who will represent the GOP in the midterm elections this November. Taking Mr. Cantor's place on the midterm ballot will be David Brat, a little-known...
Profoundly grateful to her adopted country for so many opportunities to fulfill her own American dream - more opportunities than she could ever repay - Sheela Murthy is paying it forward. She has committed to a 20-year, $1 million gift to the American Immigration Council...
At least where soccer is concerned, America is making progress. Not that long ago, it was still a niche sport here - another offering to round out the phys ed curriculum, but a far cry from national pastimes like baseball and football. Soccer seemed always...
Legal excellence is the Murthy Law Firm's stock in trade, and our attorneys maintain that exacting standard through continuing education, a never-ending process. To that end, three MLF attorneys are attending the American Immigration Lawyers Association's 2014 Annual Conference on Immigration Law, this week in...
