Lisa D. Duran

Member and Immigration Practice Group Chair

Education & Credentials

B.A., 1975

M.A., 1978

J.D., 1992

National Association of Women Lawyers, Outstanding Woman Law Graduate of Arizona State University Award
Arizona State University Faculty Women's Association Distinguished Achievement in Graduate Studies Award
Roger W. Perry Memorial Writing Competition Award
Dean's Award
Women Law Students' Association Outstanding Woman Graduate Award
Snell & Wilmer Best Casenote Award

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.

State Bar of Arizona, Immigration Section
American Bar Association, Litigation Section
American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Chair, Arizona Chapter, 1999-2001
- AILA California Service Center Liaison, 2001-2005
- AILA Nebraska Service Center Liaison, 2009-2013, 2015
- AILA Texas Service Center Liason, 2013-2014
- AILA Business Immigration Committee, 2015

UMOM New Day Center, Board of Directors, 2011-2015
Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Adjunct Professor, 1999-2000; 2009-2015
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Arizona, Chair, Board of Directors, 2005-2006; Board Member, 2001-2008

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).