The 2025 Mickey Duncan Award winners are Adam Crayk and Phillip Kuck for being co-counsel on our lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for violating the rights of international students in Utah, which we won!

Phil Kuck is an attorney who represents clients worldwide. He helps employers, employees, immigrant investors, and individuals with their immigration needs, including obtaining visas, labor certifications, immigrant visas, consular representation, and citizenship matters. Phil retains an active Federal Court practice focusing primarily on immigration issues and has achieved success for his clients as high as the U.S. Court of Appeals. He also represents asylum seekers and others in U.S. Immigration Courts.
Phil represents multinational corporations, technology firms, manufacturers, EB-5 investors and entrepreneurs, families, individual immigrants, and asylum seekers. He is well-versed in the paths to obtaining immigration success for each of his clients.

Phil graduated magna cum laude with his Juris Doctor from Georgia State University College of Law. While in law school, he served as the Lead Articles Editor on the Editorial Board for The Georgia State University Law Review and participated on and coached the Moot Court team for the Jessup International Moot Court Competition. Following graduation, Mr. Kuck was inducted into the Order of the Coif in 2017.

Phil currently serves on the Executive Committee for the Utah chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Mr. Kuck lived in Taiwan for two years and as a result speaks, reads (both traditional and simplified characters), and writes fluent Mandarin Chinese.

Adam Crayk is the managing partner at Stowell Crayk, PLLC, and has been practicing Immigration Law and Criminal Defense for over 20 years.