Job Description

BUSINESS IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY

Cammisa Markel PLLC is a boutique immigration law firm in downtown Manhattan that is passionate about leading our individual and corporate clients through the often challenging immigration process and making them feel well taken care of along the way. The firm has a sophisticated and dynamic clientele concentrated in the Advertising, Creative, Tech, Finance, Design and Hospitality fields. With an Australian-born founder and principal, the firm is known for its successful work on behalf of Australian foreign nationals. However, it represents clients from every country. Cammisa Markel seeks an experienced immigration attorney to join our team to handle a diverse and complex case load and provide legal advice and guidance to a wide range of clients from individuals to large corporations and small start-ups.

Primary responsibilities will include:

· Prepare for client meetings, consult with clients, create strategies and guide clients to provide necessary information and documentation to build strong cases. Manage cases from start to end and mapping timing from start to end. 

· Prepare and file a wide range of NIV and IV petitions and applications focused mainly but not exclusively on E-1/E-2, EB-1, EB-2 and EB-3, L-1A/L-1B, Blanket L and PERM categories taking care to anticipate and avoid RFEs

· Counsel clients through the PERM Labor Certification process and subsequent I-140, I-485 processes with thorough understanding of timing, visa bulletin issues and strategy related to maintaining NIV status until the beneficiary’s priority date becomes current to file the I-485

· Counsel clients who wish to change employers who may have already started the immigrant visa process with their current employer and advise on consequences based on where the foreign national is in the IV process to help develop a strategy moving forward

· Draft and file responses to RFEs when needed

· Contribute to ongoing development of systems, templates and questionnaires to increase firm’s efficiency

· Research complex immigration issues, apply informed analysis and develop creative and appropriate solutions to clients’ cases

Requirements:

· J.D. degree (NY bar admission preferred) and minimum of 3 years professional legal experience representing clients in all aspects of business immigration law

· Excellent writing and communication skills

· Ability to research and solve complex legal issues

· Ability to supervise and guide junior associates, paralegals and/or other staff

· Highly organized with strong client, case and time management skills

Salary commensurate with experience and skill/ Health Insurance and 401K provided/ Must be able to provide redacted writing samples for consideration

Please email up-to-date résumé and cover letter to jobs@cammisamarkel.com and put “Business Immigration Attorney Position” and the answer to the following question in the subject line of the email: What is the name of the Author who wrote The Alchemist?

Company Description

Cammisa Markel PLLC is a boutique immigration law firm in downtown Manhattan that is passionate about leading our individual and corporate clients through the often challenging immigration process and making them feel well taken care of along the way. The firm has a sophisticated and dynamic clientele concentrated in the Advertising, Creative, Tech, Finance, Design and Hospitality fields. With an Australian-born founder and principal, the firm is known for its successful work on behalf of Australian foreign nationals. However, it represents clients from every country. Cammisa Markel seeks an experienced immigration attorney to join our team to handle a diverse and complex case load and provide legal advice and guidance to a wide range of clients from individuals to large corporations and small start-ups.