Lisa D. Duran

• The Best Lawyers in America
  • Immigration Law (2005-present)
  • Immigration Lawyer of the Year - Phoenix (2021)
  • Immigration Lawyer of the Year - Phoenix (2015)
  • Immigration Lawyer of the Year - Phoenix (2012)
• Arizona Business Magazine 
  • Most Influential Women in Arizona Business (2018)
• Global Law Experts
  • Lawyer of the Year Award (Arizona) (2013)
• Martindale-Hubbell
  • AV Peer Review Rated
• Southwest Super Lawyers 
  •  Immigration (2007-2014, 2017-2018)
• The International Who's Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers (2011-present)
• Named among the Top 25 Female lawyers in the Southwest (2013-2014)
• Selected Among Top 50 Arizona Lawyers (2011)
• Received the "Judge Learned Hand Emerging Leadership Award" (2002)

Lisa Duran practices exclusively in the area of immigration law. Her experience includes: 

• Representing corporations in sponsoring foreign national professionals for employment-based non-immigrant and immigrant visas (“green cards”).
• Representing foreign national investors in obtaining E-1/E-2 non-immigrant visas.
• Representing foreign national investors in obtaining permanent residence through EB-5 investments in new businesses or Regional Centers.
• Representing foreign nationals in obtaining United States citizenship administratively and through federal court litigation.
• Representing employers charged with violating the Arizona Legal Workers Act (“LAWA”).
• Advising employers in connection with I-9 compliance and E-Verify.
• Representing employers in connection with I-9 inspections and other work site enforcement actions by the Department of Homeland Security and related litigation before the Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (“OCAHO”).
• Representing clients in federal mandamus and declaratory judgment actions involving immigration law and regulations. 

• Panelist, “Beyond the Wall: Looking at the Present and Future of U.S. Immigration,” Arizona State University College of Law, March 1, 2017
• Panelist, “Hot Topics in Immigration,” ABA Law Practice Division and ABA Young Division Fall Meeting, October 11, 2013.
• Presenter, “Employer Compliance: Immigration, the Form I-9, and E-Verify,” Quarles & Brady Labor & Employment Seminar, January 24, 2012.
• Benjamin T. Kurten, Lisa D. Duran, “USCIS to Increase Employer Visits to Deter Visa Fraud”, Society of Human Resources Management Online Seminar, September 17, 2009.
• “The Illegal Immigration Issue: Are Schools Entering the Front Lines of the Debate?” Presented at the 33rd Arizona State School Boards Association Law Conference, September 11, 2009.
• Co-author, 2 "Arizona Appellate Handbook," Chapters 22 (“Justice of the Peace and Municipal Courts”) and 23 (“Justice Court Civil Appeals”); co-author, “The New Federal Disclosure and Limited Discovery Rules,” Arizona Attorney, December 1994.
• “Auditor Liability to Third Parties: Recent Developments in the Law of Negligence and Negligent Misrepresentation,” Hot Topics in Corporate Litigation (ABA Section of Litigation and the Division for Professional Education, 1993).
• Author, Note, “Limits on the Extraterritorial Reach of the Fourth Amendment: United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez, 110 S. Ct. 1056 (1990),” 23 Ariz. St. L. J. 261 (1991).