Maxine Dorain Bayley

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Duane Morris LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Secured lawful permanent residency status for two young immigrants, overcoming prior removal orders
  establishing they were eligible for relief under the Nicaraguan Adjustment
  Central American Relief Act (NACARA).
  Managed the filing of post-acquisition L-1 amendments for a client company involving hundreds of employees across the globe.
  Drafted a section of a petition for writ of certiorari filed with the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the retroactive application of Padilla v. Kentucky to ineffective assistance of counsel claims raised on collateral review with regard to immigrants. Emmanuel Morris v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Briefed
  argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to overturn a removal order against a U.S. lawful permanent resident
  citizen of El Salvador who feared for his life in El Salvador based on the perception of involvement in gang activity. Santos Antonio Sanchez v. Eric Holder, Jr.
  Obtained an O-1 visa for a Canadian citizen to accept a high-level executive position with Aramark.
  Secured the approval of an O-1 visa petition
  a nonimmigrant waiver of inadmissibility from the U.S. Department of States, for a Belgian artist.