Managing Partner Michael Wildes and Associate Attorney Josh Wildes are pleased to announce our representation of Norchad Omier.
Norchad is a well-known student-athlete who just finished playing collegiate basketball at Baylor University of the Big 12 Conference. He has previously played for the Arkansas State Red Wolves of the Sun Belt Conference and for the Miami Hurricanes of the Atlantic Coast Conference, and throughout his career, he’s distinguished himself as a basketball player of exceptional ability. During his time at Arkansas State, he was named the Sun Belt Conference’s 2022 Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, and received First Team All-Sun Belt Honors. Norchad averaged a double double (points and rebounds) and has made an all-conference team in all five years of his collegiate career, and in 2021, he represented his home country’s national team, playing for Nicaragua at the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 Central American & Caribbean Pre-Qualifiers. We wish Norchad all the best as he pursues his dreams of being the first ever Nicaraguan basketball player in the NBA!
Wildes & Weinberg was founded in 1960 by Senior Partner, Leon Wildes. He was best known for his successful representation of former Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono as they fought the Nixon Administration during a five year bitterly contested Deportation Proceeding.
Nearly three quarters of a century later, the firm continues to concentrate its practice in all aspects of U.S. immigration and nationality law, servicing the immigration requirements of prominent American and International firms, banks, industrial, financial, and manufacturing concerns, as well as law firms in connection with the personnel needs of their foreign national employees.
In addition, the firm has a distinguished clientele and has done substantial immigration work for performing artists, directors, writers, models, actors/actresses, athletes, fine artists, art dealers, curators, and literary agents. Most notable was Leon Wildes’ successful representation of former Beatle John Lennon and his artist wife, Yoko Ono in their deportation proceedings, the basis of which has inspired legislation, and has been portrayed in films, plays, and literary works worldwide. Some of the firm’s other distinguished clients include scholar Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (z”l), as well as soccer icon Pele, Master Chef Jean-Georges, musicians Sinead O’ Connor and Boy George, as well as First Lady Melania Trump and her family.
Michael Wildes, the firm’s Managing Partner, 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), is an Adjunct Professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, and serves as Counsel to Lincoln Center and several international/corporate law firms.
Despite difficulties currently being encountered in dealing with U.S. immigration authorities, the firm has maintained an extraordinary track record for success in its cases. The firm’s litigation group has expanded its efforts in filing Mandamus Actions and other Actions in Federal Courts throughout the nation.
In addition, Wildes & Weinberg’s multilingual staff is spread throughout its offices in New York City, Englewood, New Jersey, Miami, Florida, and by appointment only in Los Angeles, California and Tel Aviv, Israel, and are known for their experience and special expertise in processing each foreign national’s case with nothing less than the highest level of professionalism.
For more information on our firm please visit www.wildeslaw.com or contact Michael Wildes at michael@wildeslaw.com.