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Masimba M. Mutamba, Esq.

Masimba M. Mutamba

Founder & Managing Partner

Mr. Mutamba is a seasoned civil rights and immigration attorney with over a decade’s worth of experience handling complex issues for individuals and businesses alike.

Prior to being a Founding Partner with the firm, Masimba was the Human Rights Defense Center (“HRDC”)’s inaugural William A. Trine Fellow.  In that role, he litigated civil rights cases all over the country, including filing petitions with the U.S. Supreme Court.  Masimba advanced the civil rights of media organizations, individuals, and classes of individuals imprisoned in the nation’s jails, prisons, and federal immigration detention centers. He filed First Amendment lawsuits around the country challenging censorship policies that greatly curtailed the rights of book and newspaper publishers and family members to contact people in custody.  He also brought federal and state consumer class action claims, and appealed lower court decisions, to fight against the predatory schemes of some private companies targeting prisoners or the families who sought to maintain contact with them.  Furthermore, Masimba litigated Eighth Amendment lawsuits against corrections and medical staff who subjected prisoners to cruel and unusual punishment that resulted in their catastrophic injury or death.  Masimba now employs his extensive expertise on these issues as a civil rights consultant around the country.

Masimba has also represented clients across the country and beyond U.S. borders in obtaining a wide array of non-immigrant and immigrant visas, including but not limited to: student (F) visas; cultural exchange (J) visas; religious worker (R) visas; crewmember (D) visas; exceptional talent (O) visas; performing athlete, artist, entertainer (P) visas; specialty occupation (H-1B) visas;  intracompany transferee (L) visas; and treaty trader/treaty investor (E) visas. 

In addition to assisting clients with visa applications, Mr. Mutamba has also filed administrative appeals with the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) and, when necessary, filed federal district court lawsuits and Circuit Courts of Appeals Petitions for Review against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its subordinate agencies, including the USCIS and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).  He is also experienced in advancing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and lawsuits in furtherance of his client’s immigration cases.

Mr. Mutamba is currently a representative of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit on the Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division’s Board of Governors, and is member of the Florida Bar’s standing Committee on Media & Communications Law.  In his local community, Masimba is actively involved in the F. Malcolm Cunningham, Sr. Bar Association, the Palm Beach County Bar Association’s standing Committee for Diversity and Inclusion, and that Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section. 

Masimba graduated magna cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law, where he was an associate editor of the University of Miami International & Comparative Law Review. Masimba also obtained a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in International Law, with distinction, from the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom.  He is licensed to practice law in the state of Florida, as well as several federal courts around the country, and is also admitted in the United States Supreme Court.  As an immigrant to the United States, Mr. Mutamba is passionate about helping individuals, families, and business navigate their way through the immigration system.

Courts

Mr. Mutamba is admitted to practice law in all county and circuit courts in the State of Florida, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Honors and Awards

  • 2023 President’s Award, Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors
  • 2022 President’s Award, Florida Bar COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery Task Force
  • 2022 President’s Award, Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors
  • 2021 President’s Award, Florida Bar COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery Task Force
  • 2021 President’s Award, Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors
  • 2020 President’s Award, Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Board of Governors
  • 2020 Florida Trend Legal Elite, Government and Non-Profit Attorneys

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