Albert Z. Lewis is an EB-5 attorney who practices with the Washington, D.C. office of International Business Law Firm PC. He is the firm’s managing attorney and is primarily responsible for administration and for managing various technologies utilized by the firm. Attorney Lewis has worked for the firm as a computer consultant who has developed software as a programmer and who has built and maintained computers.
Attorney Lewis is an expert when it comes to EDGAR SEC computer filings, USCIS electronic filings, and U.S. District Court ECF systems. He routinely appears in immigration court, has written many appeal briefs, and also supervises nearly all aspects of family related immigration proceedings. As the District of Columbia Counsel for Child Abuse and Neglect and through D.C. Superior Criminal Court programs, Attorney Lewis has also represented adults and children under the Criminal Justice Act.
Attorney Lewis was born in Asheville, North Carolina in 1948. He earned his undergraduate degree in international government from Harvard University in 1970 and earned his law degree from California Western School of Law in San Diego, California in 1977, where he was a member of the California Western International Law Review. He has worked as a commercial fisherman in Alaska, as a road construction truck driver, and having been raised on a 40,000 acre Arizonan cattle ranch is an accomplished horseman. He was also a member of the U.S. Peace Corps in West Africa in the Republic of Mali where he developed and maintained a vegetable testing and research program near the Dougourakoro Village, located on the Baguinda Canal.
Attorney Lewis is admitted to practice in California, Alaska, the District of Columbia, the U.S. District Court for Alaska, the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Superior Court Trial Lawyers Association, and the Family Division Trial Lawyers Association. He has earned the Family Court Trials Lawyers Association of the District of Columbia’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He speaks French and Bambara in addition to English.
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