Immigration

I am an associate at Pabian & Russell, LLC, concentrating in the areas of immigration and corporate law. Received his Juris Doctor from Villanova University School of Law in 2008 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in the Chinese language and English from Union College in 2004. While at Villanova, I was the recipient of the 2008 Villanova University School of Law Dorothy Day Award for Community Service and was a founding member of the Philadelphia Immigration Raid Coalition. I also served as Vice-President and Secretary of the Pro Bono Society and participated in the Villanova Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic (FLAC). I am proficient in Mandarin Chinese and spent a semester studying in China at Nanjing Teachers University, and additionally studied international law at Beijing Normal University. I am admitted to practice before the bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I am also a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Boston Bar Association and the Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition.

George R. Halsey counsels start-up companies and individuals in all aspects of technology licensing, marketing and distribution. As a former General Counsel of SunExpress, a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, an Associate General Counsel of Sun Microsystems and Honeywell, Inc., he was a lead legal negotiator in technology acquisition, licensing, distribution, trans-national transactions and multi-party tax leveraged transactions including transactions in excess of $250 million. Elected chairperson of the Boston Bar Association, Computer Law and Internet Committee, he is a speaker on topics of intellectual property law and legal issues in the life cycle of technology products. He was a founding member of the American Committee for Interoperable Systems (ACIS) which influenced changes in US, European and Japanese copyright law culminating in international treaties promoted by the World Intellectual Property Organization portions of which are included in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. He was a member of the legal steering committee that launched the Infiniband Trade Association, (IBM, Sun, Dell, HP and Intel) that defined new standards for high bandwidth interoperable systems. In addition to technology legal matters, he has successfully resolved a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, a European Commission anti-dumping claim of significant magnitude and a number of high level executive employment issues. Mr. Halsey started his legal career as a “first chair” trial and appellate lawyer on numerous civil and criminal jury trials and seven precedent setting appellate cases. A graduate of Harvard College, he earned his JD from the Boston University School of Law.