Business Immigration Attorney

Core Profile

Regulatory Compliance & Arizona Bar Admission: Clean bar record, multi-state UPL awareness, and the discipline required to operate inside a regulated entity under live oversight.

Employment-Based Immigration Practice: Full-stack employment-based immigration command — direct, hands-on experience as named attorney of record across the U.S. employment-based visa system.

Practice Build & Operations: Track record of building or rebuilding a practice's operating layer from the ground up — case management configuration, intake design, exhibit and template libraries, service-level standards, paralegal supervision, engagement-letter protocols, and the fee structure that powers a fixed-fee professional services book.

Core Responsibilities & Scope of Work

• ABS Audit & Redesignation Cycle: Lead the semiannual ABS audit response and the two-year redesignation review with the Arizona Supreme Court, working in close coordination with outside ethics counsel.
• Multi-State UPL Compliance: Own the unauthorized-practice perimeter across jurisdictions that do not recognize Arizona's Rule 31.1 / ABS framework — most notably California, New York, and Illinois — and shape the firm's scope of representation accordingly.
• Bar Admission & Licensure: Hold the Arizona bar at hire, qualify through Rule 34(f) reciprocity from a reciprocal jurisdiction within three to six months, or sit for the Arizona bar within twelve months of start; maintain admissions in any additional states required to serve the firm's client book.
• Regulatory Horizon Scanning: Monitor U.S. immigration policy developments, USCIS and DOL rulemaking, and Arizona Supreme Court regulatory shifts affecting ABS entities; communicate material changes proactively to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Nonimmigrant Visa Filings: Personally draft and file the full nonimmigrant stack — H-1B (cap, cap-exempt, transfers), L-1A and L-1B (including new-office and blanket), O-1A and O-1B, TN, and E-1/E-2/E-3 — as named attorney of record on every Form G-28.
• Immigrant Lifecycle: Personally manage PERM end-to-end (prevailing wage through audit defense), I-140 across EB-1A/B/C and EB-2 NIW, EB-2 and EB-3, I-485 adjustment of status, and consular processing across the EU, APAC, and LATAM.
• RFE, NOID & AAO Response: Author responses to Requests for Evidence, Notices of Intent to Deny, and Administrative Appeals Office filings; diagnose LCA defects and other procedural failures quickly and remediate without status interruption to the beneficiary.
• M&A & Transactional Immigration: Lead the experience design for employee populations affected by corporate transactions — entity changes, counsel transitions, and cross-border deployment — preserving employment authorization and minimizing disruption to the workforce and the client relationship.
• Case Management Platform: Select and configure the firm's case management platform (INSZoom or comparable), including intake templates, SLA dashboards, expiration tracking, and templates for repeat petition types across the nonimmigrant and immigrant stack.
• Paralegal Supervision Model: Build the paralegal supervision model with the Houston Americas Hub team — paralegals run H-1B, standard L-1, and routine nonimmigrant work, while attorney time is reserved for O-1, NIW, PERM strategy, and procedural defense.
• Engagement Mechanics & FP&A Partnership: Author engagement letters, define the fixed-fee economics of the practice, and partner with the firm's FP&A team on invoicing, utilization tracking, and proactive re-work risk identification.
• Service-Level Discipline: Establish and uphold the firm's twenty-four-hour client response standard across APAC, LATAM, and EMEA time zones; build the workflow discipline that absorbs off-hours volume without service breach.
• Warm-Pipeline Conversion: Convert Newland Chase global account work currently routed to outside referral firms into committed in-house U.S. business; the firm will hand the role warm mobility, HR, and in-house counsel buyers who already trust the brand outside the U.S.
• Mid-Market New-Logo Hunting: Partner with the Chief Revenue Officer on activity-based selling into mid-market multinational employers; the Americas Co-Chairs, Regional Lead, and consulting team will open doors, and the attorney will close.
• QBR & ABR Client Cadence: Run quarterly and annual business reviews with strategic accounts as a consultative partner — not a transactional ticket-taker — and engage corporate counsel, HR, and global mobility leaders as peers.
• Three-Year Revenue Trajectory: Drive the U.S. book toward a $30–$60M three-year revenue target, with the captive Arizona ABS positioned as durable platform infrastructure rather than a one-time conversion event.
• Co-Chair Partnership: Work in close partnership with the two regional Immigration Co-Chairs (Europe/Americas) on case strategy, client positioning, and slate-level decisions; respect their substantive authority while bringing your own positions to the table without defensiveness.
• External Brand & Thought Leadership: Represent the practice externally with substance and poise — AILA Workforce Symposium engagement (workforce track), Worldwide ERC, RMC, client-facing enforcement seminars, and publishable rapid-response analysis when the regulatory environment shifts.
• Team Development: Recruit, mentor, and supervise the next attorney(s) and any expanded paralegal team as the practice scales; design the hiring sequence that protects quality through growth and preserves the founding culture of the firm.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited U.S. law school, in good standing with all bar admissions and a clean disciplinary record.
• Eight or more years of post-bar experience in U.S. employment-based corporate immigration practice, with hands-on, named-attorney-of-record reps across both the nonimmigrant and immigrant categories of the employment-based system.
• Demonstrated experience serving multinational corporate clients at Fortune 500 / London Stock Exchange–tier scale, engaging mobility.