David Harston

Background

About David Harston

Mr. Harston is a founding partner of Elkind Alterman Harston PC (now Palmer Polaski PC) where he practices immigration law, including business, family, asylum, and removal defense. Since Mr. Harston's practice has focused primarily on business immigration, representing small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Harston was selected by his peers as Best Lawyers® 2017 and 2019 “Lawyer of the Year” for Immigration Law in the Denver metro area and has been listed in Best Lawyers®; Super Lawyers®, and 5280 Magazine in the field of immigration law for the past several years. Mr. Harston served on the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Colorado Chapter's Executive Committee from 2004 to 2009 and served as the Chapter Chair for AILA Colorado and on the AILA Board of Governors from 2007-08. Mr. Harston also served as Chair of the Executive Council for the Immigration Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association from 2009 to 2010 and as a member of the Executive Council from 2008 to 2011. He served on the AILA Liaison Committee with the USCIS Denver Field Office and was Chair of that committee from 2012 to 2013. Mr. Harston currently serves as a Managing Editor for the two-volume treatise,"Immigration Law for the Colorado Practitioner" published by the Colorado Bar Association. In 1998, Mr. Harston earned a juris doctorate from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law as well a master's degree from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies. While completing his degrees, Mr. Harston interned in the Human Rights Program at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia founded by former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. He also was a recipient of a Public Interest Law Group clerkship to work at the Center for Human Rights Advocacy in Boulder, Colorado. Mr. Harston received a bachelor's degree in history and philosophy from Allegheny College where he won the Don M. Larabee Prize for best senior thesis on history and the Philosophy Faculty Prize for excellence in the study of philosophy. Mr. Harston is fluent in Spanish. Mr. Harston is licensed to practice law in the State of Colorado and limits his practice to Immigration and Nationality law. Specialties: Business immigration including extraordinary & exceptional ability, national interest, specialty occupations, other skilled and seasonal workers, investors, & intracompany tranferees; family immigration including consular work; permanent residency through work & family; student visas; and naturalization cases.