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Paul Shearman Allen

 

Professional Activities

1973-Present

Founding partner, Paul Shearman Allen & Associates, an immigration law firm with specialization in immigration, international trade, and investment. Offices in Washington, D.C. and Hong Kong.

1971-1973

Consultant, United States Price Commission and Tax Attorney, Arthur Andersen and Company.

1965-1971

Trial Attorney, Chief Counsel"s Office, Internal Revenue Service; Tax Staff, Arthur Andersen & Company, Washington, D.C., and Consultant Attorney Advisor to U.S. Cost of Living  Council's Price Commission

Education

Graduated with honors and distinction from the Syracuse University College of Law, 1965. Elected to Order of Coif and Justinian Honor Society. Received award for special merit in the Law of Insurance.

Honors and Awards

Order of Coif
Justinian Honor Society
Oscar J. Brown Memorial Award
 

Bar Admissions

United States Supreme Court; United States Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia; United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit; United States District Court for the District of Columbia; New York Court of Appeals; United States Court of International Trade.

Major Litigation Conducted Against the Immigration Service

  1.  Masonry Masters, Inc. v. Thornburg, 875 F. 2d 898 (C.A.D.C. 1989)
  2. Full Gospel Portland Church v. Thornburg, 742 F. Supp. 682 (D.D.C. 1990)
  3. Nong v. Reno, 28 F. Supp. 2d 27 (D.D.C. 1998)
  4. Misola V. INS, 162 F. 3d  1155 (4th Circuit 1998)
  5. Foroglou v. INS, 170 F.3d 68 (1st Circuit, 1999)
  6. Behdani v. INS, 196 F.3d 1262 (11th Circuit, 1999)
  7. Aldana-Archila v. Reno, 1999 WL 775911 (C.A.4, 1999)
  8. Ventura-Orellana v. INS, 213 F.3d 634, 2000 WL 458998 (C.A. 4th Circuit, 2000)
  9. Wilson v. Smith, 587 F. Supp. 470587 F. Supp. 470 (D.C.D.C., 1984)
  10. Longwood Village Restaurant, Ltd. v. Ashcroft, 157 F. Supp.2d 61, 2001 WL 959305 (D.D.C., 2001)
  11. Poh Choong Chee v. Ashcroft, (D.C.D.C., 2001)

Attorney's Fee Awards

  1. Masonry Masters - 4/8/94 and 3/19/92 ? ( $87,342.75)
  2. Full Gospel Portland - 8/24/90 and 11/20/97  ($13,659.96)
  3. Longwood Village Restaurant (3/8/02) $16,600
  4. Poh Choong Chee, 2001 -  ($650)
  5. Kansas City - 12/14/00 - ($1,000)
  6. Birmingham, AL 1/30/95 ($7,683.56)
  7. Nong v. Reno, 1998 ($10,305.38)

Publication

Co-author, Taxation and International Monetary Policy (17th Syracuse Law Review, 1966).
How to Get an Immigrant Visa; How to Get an L-1 Visa; Permanent Residence and Other Immigration Benefits for Foreign Student; and Immigrant Investor - USA. 

Newspapers and Magazine Articles 

Hong Kong Standard, Articles on Immigration, 1983-84 Quoted in Hong Kong Standard and South China Morning Post, Business News on International Trade, 1983-84
South China Morning Post, Business News on Immigration, August 1984
Pacific Century on Immigration, October 1989
South China Morning Post on American Interests, Hong Kong 1997, October 1989
American Immigration Institute Newsletter, April 1990
Far Eastern Economic Review on Hong Kong 1997, June 1990
National Sales Tax Policy Proposal, Insight Magazine, February 1995
Hong Kong Reversion to China; It's Not Too Late, Asian Week
The Dog That Could Not Sleep, Immigration Column, Asian Fortune, November 1999
Quoted in Perfidious Albion, LBIA, by Bill McGurn, on U.S. visa policy on Hong Kong residents.

Television Appearances

CNN, regarding the deportation of the blind sheik after the bombing of the New York World Trade Center, 1993.
WUSA, Channel 9, Washington, District of Columbia, on the restoration of residence rights to a veteran's Japanese wife, 1999. 
Also appeared on public television (American Interests) as expert commentator on the political situation in Hong Kong, during the count down to the Chinese assumption of sovereignty in 1997.
Focus International Trade, Featured Panelist, Hong Kong Television, 1983.
Immigration and the Constitution, Channel 33, Arlington, VA, 1985-86.
American Interest, PBS, Hong Kong 1997, September 1989 

Radio 

June/July 1989, National Public Radio, interview by Jessica Berman, Student Problems, Post-Tiananmen Square.

Miscellaneous

Extensive travel and foreign connections in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Italy, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Chile, Dominican Republic, and Jamaica. 
Co-creator and special counsel to the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce. See website http://www.uspaacc.com 

Military Service 

Enlisted 1959-1965. Reserve obligation finished in 1965. Active service performed at Vicenza, Italy, 1959-1962. Enlistment involuntarily extended during Cuban Missile Crises. 

Languages 

Modest Italian and Spanish

Jimmy Davis

Jimmy Davis joined Paul Shearman Allen & Associates in October 2008 as an Associate Attorney. 

Prior to joining PSA&A, Jimmy earned his J.D. from the University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law, where he developed much of his initial practical experience from the school’s nationally acclaimed Clinical Program – working for the Community Development and Small Business Law Clinic as well as the Low Income Taxpayers’ Clinic. 

While in law school, Jimmy was a legal intern for the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, where he successfully litigated a contested area of unsettled law before the Arlington Immigration Court and specialized in analyzing the immigration consequences of criminal convictions.  Jimmy also clerked for Ai & Associates in Rockville, MD, where he worked on various immigration, family law, and First Amendment tort litigation. 

Jimmy received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor concentration in Spanish from Salisbury University in Maryland. 

Jimmy has been a member of the Maryland Bar since 2008. He is also a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. In the summer of 2009, Jimmy was recognized for his “Outstanding Commitment to Defending the Rights and Dignity of Detained Immigrants” for his previous work at the CAIR Coalition. 

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