Berry Appleman & Leiden Visa Expert Available For Media Requests on Baseball Lockout and What It Means For International Players

WHAT: With the collective bargaining agreement expired between Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association, a lockout has begun which will impact the more than 250 international players.

WHO: Gabriel Castro is a BAL attorney based in Los Angeles. Gabriel focuses his practice on business immigration, specifically in the Sports and Entertainment sectors, working with companies of all sizes to help bring in and retain athletes, artists, coaches, and workers through both nonimmigrant and immigrant visa petitions.

About Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP (BAL)
BAL, the world’s leading corporate immigration law firm, is the Best Lawyers® “Law Firm of the Year” in U.S. Immigration Law for 2019, ranks #1 on the Diversity Scorecard by The American Lawyer (2020 and 2021), #1 on Law360’s Diversity Snapshot (2020 and 2021), and the #1 Law Firm for Women according to the National Law Journal (2019, 2020 and 2021). BAL’s Cobalt® digital immigration services platform won the 2020 CODiE Award for Best Legal Tech Product, the prestigious CIO100 award for Innovative Use of Intelligent Automation in Immigration Services, and Legalweek’s Most Innovative Law Firm Operations Team of 2021. BAL is singularly focused on meeting the immigration challenges of corporate clients around the world in ways that make immigration more strategic and enable clients to be more successful. Established in 1980, BAL has consistently provided immigration expertise, top-notch information security and leading technology innovation. The firm entered into a strategic alliance with Deloitte UK to create the world’s first global immigration service delivery model. BAL and its leaders are highly ranked in every major legal publication, including Best Lawyers^®, Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, and Who’s Who Legal. See website for details: https://www.bal.com