Jeffrey D. Joseph
Berry Appleman & Leiden
Jeff Joseph, Esq., is a graduate of the University of Denver, College of Law. He is a past Chapter Chair of the Colorado Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and a past elected director on the AILA National Board of Governors. Mr. Joseph currently serves as the Treasurer on the Executive Committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He has formerly served in numerous leadership positions in AILA including as Chair of the AILA National 2011 Annual Conference, the AILA National Liaison Committee with the headquarters of the Department of Labor for three years, and the Executive Office for Immigration Review for two years, two terms as chair of the AILA Amicus Committee, for three years as a member of the National US Citizenship and Immigration Services Liaison Committee and for three years as a member of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Liaison Committee. Mr. Joseph was on the Board of Trustees of the American Immigration Council from 2006-2012 and served as Chair of the Litigation Action Committee. In 2004, he received the Joseph Minsky Young Lawyer Award from AILA. In 2005, he was named a finalist in the Denver Bar Association/Denver Business Journal Best of the Bar Awards. In 2008, Mr. Joseph was nominated by the Denver Business Journal as one of Denver's "Forty under 40" which recognizes forty young entrepreneurs for their business skills, leadership, and community service. Mr. Joseph has been ranked by Chambers and Partners as a Tier 1 Immigration Lawyer in Colorado and is also ranked nationally as by Chambers in the top 50 lawyers in the country. In 2009-2021, he was selected by his peers for inclusion into the Best Lawyers in America in the field of immigration. And, in 2015 and 2021 he was named Best Immigration Lawyer of the Year in Denver by Best Lawyers. In 2006 through 2021, Mr. Joseph was named a Colorado Superlawyer by Colorado Superlawyer Magazine. 5280 Magazine also named Mr. Joseph a “Top Lawyer” in the area of immigration law for 2006 through 2021. Joseph Law Firm, P.C. has also been ranked as a Top Tier law firm in the field of Immigration Law by U.S. News and World Reports. In 2008, Mr. Joseph was appointed by Governor Bill Ritter to the Colorado Non-immigrant Agricultural Seasonal Worker Pilot Program Advisory Council. He has been qualified as an expert witness before the state and federal courts on employment-related and criminal- related immigration issues and is a frequent local and national lecturer on various immigration topics. Mr. Joseph has been an invited speaker at the annual AILA conferences every year since 2001, and he has also addressed numerous other regional and state immigration conferences. Mr. Joseph has represented clients before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the U.S. District Courts, and the Circuit Courts of Appeals, and has published several opinions in those courts. He is an adjunct professor of immigration law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He is bilingual in Spanish.
(07/21)
