September 22, 2023
Dana Bucin, partner and chair of Murtha Cullina’s Immigration practice, was honored as a Distinguished Leader by the 2023 New England Awards at a dinner held on September 21.
The Distinguished Leaders Category recognizes lawyers who had outstanding success or achievement in 2022 in litigation or pro bono efforts, effective advocacy for legislation or social causes, tangible achievements in leadership roles in bar organizations or another significant impact on the legal community.
Dana represents businesses and individual clients on a wide range of immigration matters, including green card applications, work visas, student visas, foreign investor visas, asylum, naturalization, religious work visas, as well as various other employment and family-based immigration matters. In addition, Dana does a variety of pro bono work on behalf of immigrants and refugees with humanitarian legal needs.
Dana serves as Murtha Cullina's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Committee chair, where she is responsible for the oversight of the firm's diversity and inclusion strategy and initiatives, ensuring that the firm’s core principles of inclusiveness and diversity are reflected across its internal and external policies, work and practices.
As Honorary Consul of Romania to CT, Dana runs diplomatic programs that aim to reunite families separated at the border and coordinate assistance for vulnerable Romanian citizens in CT as well as assist the transfer of Ukrainian refugees from Romania to CT. One such program is the “Connecticut for Ukraine” Matching Program which matches Ukrainian refugees to CT sponsors.
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