The Legal 500 2024 continues to rank Laura Devine Immigration as a top tier firm in Immigration

The Legal 500 2024 recommends Laura Devine Immigration as a top tier firm in two practice areas and ranks 7 lawyers for their standout contribution to immigration.

The firm has been ranked as tier 1 in Immigration: Business and Immigration: Human Rights, Appeals and Overstay.

The members of the team have been recognised as the following:

Hall of Fame: Laura Devine and Sophie Barrett-Brown
Leading Individual: Natasha Chell and Christi Jackson
Next Generation Partner: Zeena Luchowa, Francesca Sciberras and Matthew Wills

Laura Devine Immigration leverages the wide-ranging experience of its ‘exceptionally capable‘ team, which acts across the full gamut of immigration work, substantively working with immigration-related organisations ‘to achieve legislative and policy changes‘. Laura Devine heads the entire firm while Sophie Barrett-Brown leads the business practice, Barrett-Brown being described as ‘a stand-out individual and leader in the immigration law sector‘ for her work in personal immigration. Natasha Chell works at the intersection of business and personal matters, advising senior executives, HNW individuals, and families, while Christi Hufford Jackson heads the US immigration team in both New York and London, providing a market-leading US immigration service. The firm’s offering, particularly in relation to human rights, appeals, and overstays, has been strengthened with the promotion of Zeena Luchowa, Matthew Wills, and Francesca Sciberras to partner in June 2023, with Luchowa and Wills now leading on work in this area.

View the full immigration rankings here.


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