Biography: Corporate Immigration

Michael D Patrick is a partner of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, located in its New York office. He received his BA (cum laude) from Syracuse University in 1975, and his JD from Hofstra University in 1978. At Hofstra, Mr Patrick served as associate editor on the Hofstra Law Review, was president of the Law Fellows Program and received the 'Service to the School' award upon graduation. Prior to joining Fragomen as a partner in 1990, Mr Patrick was a founding partner of Campbell Patrick & Chin (from 1986 to 1990) and served as a special assistant United States attorney and chief of the immigration unit of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (between 1981 and 1986), where he represented the Immigration and Naturalization Service, State Department, Department of Labor, and other federal agencies in the federal courts. Prior to joining the US Attorney's Office, Mr Patrick was an assistant corporation counsel for The City of New York (from 1978 to 1981).

A widely published author in the immigration field, Mr Patrick writes a monthly immigration column in the Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, a bi-monthly immigration column in the New York Law Journal, and is a frequent speaker on immigration topics before Bar associations, international trade organisations and human resource groups. Mr Patrick is also actively involved in the immigration law community, having served as inauguaral co-chair of the Federal Bar Association's immigration law section (between 1989 and 1992), chair of the New York chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) (from 1993 to 1994), member of the immigration and nationality law committee(s) of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (ABCNY), and the New York County Lawyers' Association. At Fragomen, Mr Patrick serves on the firm's executive and finance committees, and is chair of the firm's risk management committee.

Mr Patrick currently serves as a member of the Second Circuit's committee on admissions and grievances. He is also co-chair of the immigration litigation committee of the commercial and federal litigation section of the New York State Bar Association, and is a member of the American Bar Association, of the International Bar Association, of the Federal Bar Council (trustee, 2007 - present), of AILA, and of the American Foreign Lawyers Association (treasurer, between 2004 and 2008). Mr Patrick received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Hofstra Law School Alumni in May 2000, and is listed in the current editions of Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers and Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers.