{"id":9154,"date":"2020-05-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/ray-lahoud-named-co-vice-chair-of-pennsylvania-bar-association-immigration-law-committee\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T04:23:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T04:23:55","slug":"ray-lahoud-named-co-vice-chair-of-pennsylvania-bar-association-immigration-law-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/news\/ray-lahoud-named-co-vice-chair-of-pennsylvania-bar-association-immigration-law-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Lahoud Named Co-Vice Chair of Pennsylvania Bar Association Immigration Law Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/attorney_profiles\/raymond-g-lahoud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raymond G. Lahoud<\/a>, a Member of law firm <a href=\"\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Norris McLaughlin, P.A.<\/a>, and Chair of its <a href=\"\/services\/immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Immigration Law Practice Group<\/a>, has been appointed the Co-Vice Chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pabar.org\/site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pennsylvania Bar Association<\/a> (PBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pabar.org\/site\/For-Lawyers\/Committees-Commissions\/Immigration-Law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Immigration Law Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am ecstatic about this role! I&#8217;ve always dreamt of being a lawyer and in being so passionate about my career, the Pennsylvania Bar Association allows me to continue learning and connects me to other legal professionals that are as dedicated to helping others as much as I am. In having this role on the Immigration Law Committee, I hope to encourage others to be active within their community and stay up-to-date with this ever-changing practice we work with,\u201d said Lahoud.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About the PBA Immigration Law Committee<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The PBA aims to assist in the legal development within Pennsylvania and in the United States, while keeping the state\u2019s attorneys current, educated, resourceful, and available to those who need it. Its Immigration Law Committee specifically provides an opportunity to do so in the area of immigration law.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Ray Lahoud<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Lahoud focuses exclusively on the area of immigration law and deportation defense for individuals, families, small to large domestic and multinational businesses and corporations, employers, international employees, investors, students, professors, researchers, skilled professionals, athletes, and entertainers, in every type of immigration or deportation defense matter\u2014whether domestic or foreign. While his immigration practice is global in reach, with service to individuals and organizations across the United States and beyond, he is located primarily at the firm\u2019s three globally-linked offices in Allentown, Pennsylvania; Bridgewater, New Jersey; and New York, New York. As Chair of the firm\u2019s Immigration Law Practice Group, Lahoud oversees a leading team of immigration attorneys, immigration review compliance experts, employer immigration auditors, and paralegals and legal assistants with extensive and continuing immigration law training and significant practice experience.<\/p>\n<p>Lahoud\u2019s immigration practice is broad, ranging from areas of corporate and employment immigration and related compliance to immigration litigation before agencies and courts across the United States, for corporations and individuals alike. His corporate immigration practice includes representing businesses of all sizes, in all corporate immigration and employer immigration compliance matters, serving nearly every industry. Lahoud\u2019s corporate immigration and employer immigration compliance practice includes all non-immigrant and immigrant visas, recruitment of international talent and students, and consular processing, as well as Form I-9 and Department of Labor Wage &amp; Hour Division compliance. Further, he has litigated corporate immigration matters before the Department of Labor\u2019s Wage &amp; Hour Division, the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s investigative bodies and agencies, the State Department, the United States Court of Appeals for International Trade, the Customs &amp; Border Protection review board, and federal appellate courts.<\/p>\n<p>Lahoud\u2019s immigration litigation practice includes deportation defense of thousands of individuals, at the Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Administrative Appeals Office, and federal district and circuit courts. In state and federal trial and appellate courts, he seeks post-conviction relief for the underlying crime that led to the removal proceedings and serves as immigration counsel to non-citizens accused of removable crimes. Lahoud\u2019s ability to understand each interaction of criminal law with immigration law has made him a leading expert on issues of \u201ccrimmigration\u201d before state and federal courts reviewing post-conviction relief claims.<\/p>\n<p>Lahoud has received numerous accolades. He has been awarded the \u201cEmpire State Pro Bono Counsel Award\u201d each year since 2012, has been selected as \u201cLead Counsel,\u201d received the <em>Martindale-Hubbell<\/em> \u201cPlatinum Client Champion Award,\u201d and has been named a <em>Super Lawyers<\/em> \u201cRising Star,\u201d ranked as a \u201cTop Rated Immigration Attorney\u201d in the New York Metro Area. <em>EB5 Investors<\/em>, the leading online portal, conference series, and magazine for investors, developers, and EB-5 professionals, has named Lahoud one of the \u201cTop 5 Rising Stars\u201d nationally. He was also named one of the 40 young professionals from the Greater Lehigh Valley as the <em>Lehigh Valley Business<\/em> 2017 \u201cForty Under 40\u201d for his commitment to business growth, professional excellence, and the community. Lahoud received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2009 and his B.A., English,\u00a0<em>summa cum laude,<\/em>\u00a0from Lehigh University in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond G. Lahoud, a Member of law firm Norris McLaughlin, P.A., and Chair of its Immigration Law Practice Group, has been appointed the Co-Vice Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Immigration Law Committee. \u201cI am ecstatic about this role! I&#8217;ve always dreamt of being a lawyer and in being so passionate about my career, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":9155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[398,157,399],"tags":[401,884],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.1 (Yoast SEO v22.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ray Lahoud Named Co-Vice Chair of Pennsylvania Bar Association Immigration Law Committee - Norris McLaughlin, P.A., Attorneys at Law<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/norrismclaughlin.com\/news\/ray-lahoud-named-co-vice-chair-of-pennsylvania-bar-association-immigration-law-committee\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ray Lahoud Named Co-Vice Chair of Pennsylvania Bar Association Immigration Law Committee\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Raymond G. 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