David M. Morris

David M. Morris manages the firm’s Washington-DC office and is a respected national lawyer in the business immigration field. He holds a particular emphasis in the representation of clients involved in the areas of investment, life sciences, and information technology. For more than 18 years, Mr. Morris has regularly represented domestic and multinational businesses, as well as professionals, in a wide range of immigration and visa matters.

He has been a regularly invited speaker on EB-5 investor visa law topics – including national conferences sponsored by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and Immigration Law Weekly (ILW) the leading immigration daily journal. His recent article on EB-5 law appeared in the October 2009 issue of Bender’s Immigration Bulletin published by LexisNexis.

In general, his immigration insights have been noted on MSNBC television, DC 101 radio, and an array of professional journals and newspapers such as The Labor Lawyer, the American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Journal, the Immigration Advisor, a national journal for human resource managers, the Baltimore Sun, the Boston Herald, the Maryland Daily Record, the Washington Technology Journal, the Immigration Policy & Law Journal, and other publications. Mr. Morris frequently lectures on expedited visa sponsorship strategies, employer immigration compliance programs, and various other immigration related topics for a wide variety of public and private organizations. Prior to founding the firm of McNary, Morris & Smalley (later transformed into the Visa Law Group) Mr. Morris served as the leader of the Immigration Law Section at Baker & Hostetler, one of the largest law firms in the United States.