Patrick Taurel is a Partner at Grossman Young & Hammond. He litigates immigration cases in federal court, fights complex removal cases in immigration court, advises criminal defense counsel on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions, and helps clients obtain immigration benefits before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and U.S. consular posts. He regularly secures his clients’ release from immigration detention through parole and prosecutorial discretion requests to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, immigration court bond hearings, and habeas corpus petitions in federal court.
Since 2017, Patrick has been named by Washingtonian Magazine as one of “Washington’s Top Lawyers” in the field of immigration law. In addition, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the bar organization representing over 15,000 immigration lawyers nationwide, has twice recognized Patrick, first with the Joseph Minsky Young Lawyer Award in 2018 for outstanding contributions made as a young lawyer, and then with the Michael Maggio Pro Bono Award in 2024, for his commitment to pro bono representation.
Patrick joins Grossman Young & Hammond with over a decade of experience as an advocate for immigrants, having worked for leading immigration firms and impactful non-profit immigrant rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Immigration Council, and Clark Hill PLC. He served as lead counsel in J.G. v. Warden, Irwin County Detention Center, __ F. Supp. 3d __, 2020 WL 6938013 (M.D. Ga. Nov. 16, 2020) (Due Process Clause requires government to bear burden of justifying noncitizen’s detention under 8 U.S.C. §1226(a) by clear and convincing evidence), Siddiqui v. Cissna, 356 F. Supp. 3d 772 (S.D. Ind. 2018) (jurisdiction to review USCIS decision denying application for adjustment of status based on Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program), Siahaan v. Madrigal, 2020 WL 5893638 (D. Md. Oct. 5, 2020) (habeas jurisdiction to stay removal of noncitizen pending resolution of asylum-based motion to reopen), and other cases challenging indefinite post-final order detention, arbitrary CBP inadmissibility findings, unreasonable agency delay and unlawful withholding of agency action, and denials of family-based immigrant petitions under the Adam Walsh Act.
Patrick has been quoted in an array of publications including The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, and has appeared on National Public Radio (NPR) and C-SPAN. He speaks Spanish and Portuguese and is proficient in French and Italian.
You can read a profile of and interview with Patrick conducted by his law school alma mater’s alumni publication, Brooklyn Law Notes, here.
