The Nation’s Most Powerful Employment Attorneys—Immigration
Name/Title
Jeff T. Appleman
Founding Partner
Daryl Buffenstein
Partner
Law Firm
Berry Appleman & Leiden
Fragomen
City
San Francisco
Atlanta
Fragomen
Washington
Bo Cooper
Partner
Charles C. Foster
Co-Chairman
FosterQuan Houston
Austin T. Fragomen
Partner
Fragomen New York
H. Ronald Klasko
Partner
Philadelphia
Mark D. Koestler
Partner, Co-Chair, Business Immigration Group
New York
Ira J. Kurzban
Chair, Immigration Department
Warren R. Leiden
Partner
San Francisco
Deborah J. Notkin
Partner
Barst Mukamal & Kleiner New York
Angelo A. Paparelli
Partner
Seyfarth Shaw Los Angeles
Michael D. Patrick
Partner
Fragomen New York
Julie Pearl
Managing Attorney
Pearl Law Group San Francisco
Eleanor Pelta
Partner
Morgan Lewis Washington
Laura Foote Reiff
Co-Managing Shareholder, Tysons Corner Office
Greenberg Traurig Washington
Theodore Ruthizer
Co-Chair, Business Immigration Group
Kramer Levin New York
Denyse Sabagh
Partner
Duane Morris Washington
William A. Stock
Partner
Klasko, Rulon, Stock &
Seltzer
Philadelphia
Bernard Wolfsdorf
Managing Partner
Wolfsdorf Immigration Law
Group
Santa Monica,
Calif.
Scott W. Wright
Partner & Manager Business Immigration Practice
Faegre Baker Daniels Minneapolis
Klasko, Rulon, Stock &
Seltzer
Kramer Levin
Kurzban Kurzban Weinger
Tetzeli and Pratt
Miami
Berry Appleman & Leiden
Law School
Golden State
University
University of
Rhodesia
Years in
Practice Practice Specialty
35 Immigration counseling and litigation
Tulane University
34 Corporate immigration, including strategic planning, legislative and
regulatory assistance, DOL and DHS, and immigration compliance;
foreign-national recruitment and retention
24 Legislative and administrative representation, strategic immigration
counseling, compliance planning and responses to government audits
Corporate immigration
University of Texas 45
Case Western
Reserve University
University of
Pennsylvania
Brooklyn 21
UC Berkeley
Immigration and nationality law, emphasizing risk management
for global immigration programs
Immigration counseling for individuals, multinational
corporations, small companies, universities and hospitals
Business immigration with an emphasis on the advertising/PR,
entertainment and financial-services industries
38 Immigration, including U.S. and global-mobility programs for
employment authorization, labor certification and residency
Immigration law
New York University 25
Wayne State
University
Hofstra
UC Hastings
36 Global immigration visas and permanent residency, strategic corporate
consulting, and immigration compliance and defense of management
34 Corporate and sophisticated business immigration, with
emphasis on I- 9, PERM and visa-application compliance
24 Immigration and nationality law and litigation
Harvard
26 Assists corporate clients in a variety of industries with the
international transfer of key personnel
Business-immigration laws and regulations affecting U.S. and
foreign companies
Immigration and nationality law and litigation
George Washington
University
Columbia 40
23
George Mason
University
University of
Minnesota
19
Suffolk University
Law School
30
University of
Minnesota
24
35 Immigration and nationality law and litigation
U.S. immigration for corporations, universities, hospitals and start-ups; and defense in immigration-related labor enforcement
Global-corporate immigration, emphasizing compliance for
businesses and visas for universities, artists/entertainers and investors
I- 9 audits, investigations and immigration-related litigation
The partners and staff of Barst Mukamal & Kleiner
LLP congratulate Deborah Notkin on her nomination
as one of the top Immigration Lawyers in the
country and commend her achievements in the field
of US Immigration Law.
