David
Allen
Partner
David leads our High-Skilled Immigration team and has built his career on a simple belief: no two extraordinary careers look alike, so no two petitions should either. He works with researchers, academics, and business leaders pursuing EB-1A, EB-1B, EB-2 National Interest Waiver, and O-1 cases, in both self-petition and employer-sponsored contexts.
David has a gift for finding the strategy others miss. After helping manage thousands of high-skilled cases earlier in his career, he saw that personally tailored petitions consistently outperform template approaches. That conviction led him to co-found a firm built around truly understanding each client’s achievements, a philosophy he carried into Ellis Porter when his team joined forces with the firm.
Outside the office, David is endlessly curious. He travels near and far, seeks out live music, art, and lecture series, and collects the kind of history and science trivia that makes him hard to beat at game night.
- EDUCATION University of Illinois College of Law (J.D., Cum Laude, 2012)
Michigan State University (B.A., With High Honors, Political Science / Pre-Law, 2009) - PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES American Immigration Lawyers Association
AILA Liaison Committee to USCIS Texas Service Center Operations - BAR ADMISSIONS State Bar of Michigan
Supreme Court of the United States