It's nothing we didn't already know - in fact, it's a trend that's been evident for some time: the ascendancy of Indian techies to the pinnacle of Silicon Valley's elite. American Public Media's Marketplace broadcast commented on this trend in a recent radio piece, with...
Murthy Law Firm attorneys are in demand as guest speakers at professional conferences and continuing-education seminars. Why? Because they have achieved a high level of legal scholarship and technical know-how in the course of their law practice. A recent case in point: two of the...
Silicon Valley is world famous for its culture of innovation, for a hothouse atmosphere where new ideas can grow - seemingly overnight - into successful companies, even entirely new industries. It can't hurt that investors often are tripping over each other to pour money into...
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin, was the latest featured speaker in Stevenson University's Baltimore Speakers Series, held February 18th at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Murthy Law Firm founder and president - and fellow Harvard alumna - Sheela Murthy was there, front and center, for...
Not everyone in the GOP was happy to hear House Speaker Boehner's announcement, some weeks ago, that immigration reform was essentially off the table in 2014, ostensibly because many in his caucus did not trust the President to implement whatever reforms Congress ultimately passes. Conservative...
Though U.S. immigration officials have not quite rolled up the welcome mat for high-tech workers from overseas, in recent years, it's become progressively more difficult for certain types of nonimmigrant workers to get their visas approved. The USCIS has been taking a harder line in...
Legal excellence is not the only thing that sets the Murthy Law Firm apart from other law firms; our attorneys and staff have a shared commitment to giving back to the community. A recent case in point: is our attorney, Pamela Genise, who generously gave...
Though the politics of immigration reform remain fraught with controversy, the economic reasons for pressing forward are as compelling as ever. As a recent study from the American Competitiveness Alliance (ACA) makes clear, immigration, innovation, and entrepreneurship are closely intertwined: "Immigration can contribute to economic...
Social scientists have long recognized that there's something special about immigrants. As historians know, immigrant energy, creativity, and brainpower have driven the growth of this country from its very beginning, and economists often remark about the disproportionate number of patents and doctorates earned by foreign-born...
What does immigration have to do with American agriculture? Quite a bit, according to a recent study from the American Farm Bureau, a leading advocacy organization for the nation's agricultural sector. The relationship is largely a question of labor economics. As the Farm Bureau study...
