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Dec
2010
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Dec
2010
USCIS Working to Prevent Unauthorized Practice of Immigration Law
It happens all too frequently: immigrants, already financially strapped, being taken advantage of by unscrupulous people posing as immigration lawyers, sometimes calling themselves "notaries," or using other bogus legal jargon to make themselves sound legitimate. Cases abound in which unsuspecting immigrants have entrusted their green...
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Dec
2010
Mayor Bloomberg on Immigration
In a recent interview on Meet the Press, New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to quell speculation that he might stage an independent run for president in 2012, telling David Gregory, "No, I'm not looking at the possibility of running [for president]. I've got...
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Dec
2010
DREAM Act Passes House of Representatives – What Now?
Otto von Bismarck is said to have remarked that making laws was like making sausage, because "it's better not to see them being made...
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Dec
2010
Update: MurthyNAYAK Foundation in India, Part II
The MurthyNAYAK Foundation board was in India over the Thanksgiving holidays, visiting some of the projects and institutions we are privileged to support. A few days after our site visit at the Chennakeshava School in Bangalore (See Update: MurthyNAYAK Foundation in India, Part I, MurthyBlog,...
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Dec
2010
Update: MurthyNAYAK Foundation in India, Part I
As we reported recently on MurthyDotCom, during the week of Thanksgiving, the MurthyNAYAK Foundation and its board members were in India, visiting several of the organizations we support there. (See The MurthyNAYAK Foundation: From Baltimore to Bangalore, Each Life Matters!, MurthyDotCom, 26.Nov.2010.) Though we missed...
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Dec
2010
Coming Soon to Florida: an S.B. 1070 Copycat Bill
Didn't we just try this in Arizona? The president of the Florida State Senate, Mike Bennett, recently introduced state legislation modeled on the now-famous - or infamous, depending on one's viewpoint - Arizona immigration bill, commonly known as S.B. 1070. Like the Arizona measure, the...
11
Dec
2010
Attorney Murthy Chairs Domestic Violence Awareness Event
Women's rights and women's education are among the key concerns of Attorney Sheela Murthy's philanthropic work. Preventing domestic violence is an important part of this effort, and for the past several years, Sheela Murthy and her husband, documentary filmmaker Vasant Nayak, have supported the work...
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Dec
2010
MD Chamber Honors Murthy Law Firm for Corporate Philanthropy
The Maryland Chamber of Commerce and the Baltimore Business Journal recently honored the Murthy Law Firm for its commitment to corporate philanthropy, presenting a Maryland Business Philanthropy Award to our firm and two other companies, "whose philanthropic efforts have made Maryland a better place to...
09
Dec
2010
SmartCEO: Attorney Murthy Named to Legal Elite in 2010 Readers’ Poll
Murthy Law Firm founder and CEO, Attorney Sheela Murthy, was among a select few Baltimore lawyers named to the Legal Elite in SmartCEO magazine's 2010 Readers' Poll. (See Legal Elite: Readers Poll 2010, compiled by Dan Mills, SmartCEO Baltimore magazine, November 2010, available online by...