Managing Partner Michael Wildes is pleased to announce the rededication of a Seminar Room which will double as a Place of Worship at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in honor of his parents, Ruth and Leon Wildes. For over three decades, Leon Wildes, was an Adjunct Professor of Immigration Law at Cardozo and in addition, he established the Wildes Family Scholarship. Together, these measures of commitment to Cardozo will enhance the Wildes’ legacy to the school. Leon’s sons, Michael and Mark, his daughter-in-law, Amy, his grandchildren. Raquel, Josh, and Jake Berger, have all graduated from the law school. Michael Wildes is an Adjunct Professor teaching several courses for the past 15 years as well.
Pictured above at the Rededication ceremony are left to right, Ezra Wildes, Avigayil Wildes, Rabbi Mark Wildes, Jill Wildes, Dean Melanie Leslie, Amy Wildes, Mayor Michael Wildes, Josh Wildes, Alice Wildes, Morey Wildes, and Alan Wildes.
Wildes & Weinberg, P.C. was founded in 1960 by Michael’s father, Leon Wildes, whose best-known accomplishment was his successful representation of John Lennon in his widely publicized deportation proceedings (the circumstances of which have inspired several films and documentaries). The firm specializes exclusively in the practice of U.S. immigration and nationality law, has a distinguished domestic and international clientele, and can assist with any type of immigration matter including employment and investment-based immigration, work permits, permanent residence for qualified individuals, family-based immigration, asylum applications, all temporary and permanent type visas, and U.S. citizenship.
In addition to running a highly successful immigration law practice, Michael is also currently serving his fifth term as Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey, is the author of Safe Haven in America: Battles to Open the Golden Door (which draws on over a quarter of a century of his practice in the immigration field), and is an Adjunct Professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.
Moreover, Michael is internationally renowned for his successful representation of distinguished individuals and corporate clients such as performing artists, directors, writers, models, actors/actresses, athletes, race car drivers, fine artists, art dealers, curators, musicians, photographers, stylists, and literary agents. Some of the firm’s other distinguished clients include scholar Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (z’l), as well as soccer icon Pele and Karim Benzema, Master Chef Jean-Georges and First Lady Melania Trump and her family.
Today the firm of Wildes & Weinberg has offices in New York City, New York, Englewood, New Jersey, and Miami, Florida. It continues to maintain its stellar reputation in the field of U.S. Immigration & Nationality Law.
For more information on our firm please visit www.wildeslaw.com or contact Michael Wildes at michael@wildeslaw.com.
