Immigration
Florida
21 years ranked
LAWYER PROFILE
Ira J Kurzban
USA 2026
Ranked in 1 practice area
About
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USA
Practice Areas
Immigration and Naturalization
Civil Rights Law
International & Human Rights Law
Employment Discrimination
Career
Pro-Bono Activities:
Founder, Berkeley Law Foundation
Founder, Immigrants' List PAC and Immigrants List Civic Action, Inc.
Representative Cases:
Jean v. Nelson, 472 U.S. 846 (1985)
Commissioner, INS v. Jean, 496 U.S. 154 (1990)
McNary v. HRC. Inc., 498 U.S. 479 (1991)
Professional Memberships
American Immigration Lawyers Association, Past-President
American Immigration Lawyers Association, Former General Counsel
Honorary Fellow, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Fellow
Wasserstein Fellowship, Harvard Law School
Publications
Kurzban's Immigration Law Sourcebook 1st -18th Edition
Democracy and Immigration, Keeping Out the Other, Columbia University Press, 2008
Personal
Mr. Kurzban holds J.D. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. with honors from Syracuse University where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He is also an honorary fellow of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. He is also the recipient of the Wasserstein Fellowship at Harvard University Law School and was named the 2020 Recipient of the Leonard J. Theberge Award for Private International Law. Mr. Kurzban has been a founding partner in the law firm Kurzban, Kurzban, Tetzeli & Pratt for over three decades and is the chair of the firm's immigration department.
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Immigration - USA - Nationwide
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Ira Kurzban is a preeminent figure in immigration due to his expertise in litigious matters and his thought leadership in the space.
Strengths
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He writes the leading immigration treatises here.
ImmigrationChambers Guide to the USAHe is phenomenal, a top immigration lawyer.
ImmigrationChambers Guide to the USAIra is incredibly well known. He has a legendary presence in the community.
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