Senior Employment Based Immigration Attorney
About the role
The position is a founding Senior Employment Based Immigration Attorney for CIBT, Inc. and its global immigration consultancy Newland Chase. The role is based in Phoenix, Arizona, with a hybrid work schedule and strong preference for Arizona residency, with relocation support available.
Responsibilities
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.
Own the unauthorized practice perimeter across jurisdictions that do not recognize Arizona's Rule 31.1 / ABS framework, shaping the firm's scope of representation accordingly.
Manage the full nonimmigrant visa stack (H-1B, L-1A and L-1B, O-1A and O-1B, TN, and E-1/E-2/E-3) as named attorney of record on every Form G-28.
Manage the immigrant lifecycle (PERM end-to-end, 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).
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.
Lead the experience design for employee populations affected by corporate transactions, preserving employment authorization and minimizing disruption to the workforce and the client relationship.
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.
Build the paralegal supervision model with the Houston Americas Hub team, supervising paralegals for H-1B, standard L-1, and routine nonimmigrant work, while reserving attorney time for O-1, NIW, PERM strategy, and procedural defense.
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.
Convert Newland Chase global account work currently routed to outside referral firms into committed in-house U.S. business; partner with the Chief Revenue Officer on activity-based selling into mid-market multinational employers.
Run quarterly and annual business reviews with strategic accounts as a consultative partner, engaging corporate counsel, HR, and global mobility leaders as peers.
Drive the U.S. book toward a $30–$60M three-year revenue target, positioning the captive Arizona ABS as durable platform infrastructure rather than a one-time conversion event.
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.