Editors

Gabriel Mozes

Gabriel represents business immigration clients across numerous industries, including management consulting, financial services, pharmaceutical, and information technology. Gabriel focuses on the following areas: H-1B third-party placement and right to control issues; L-1B knowledge; high-volume TN cross-border work; and PERM program counseling. He works closely with clients to build innovative, customized, and scalable process management solutions to deliver increased value at lower costs.

 

Dawn M. Lurie

Companies look to Dawn to deliver seasoned, strategic counsel as they navigate I-9 and immigration compliance legal risk in an increasingly difficult climate. Dawn’s knowledge and experience are relied upon by some of the world’s largest companies as they contend with a host of compliance-based challenges. She counts herself among a small number of practitioners nationally who have dedicated their practice exclusively to I-9 worksite enforcement and immigration compliance matters. Dawn is known for her ability to keep her clients ahead of impending government enforcement trends, and adds tremendous value to client representations. Her inbox is constantly full of novel queries involving electronic I-9s, the ICE fine matrix, and remote employees or E-Verify structuring and SS no-match letters. Dawn’s resourceful solutions reduce pain points and aim to make her client’s less interesting to government investigators.

 

Michelle Gergerian

Michelle is the Practice Lead of the Global Immigration Group at Seyfarth. Michelle assists clients in all aspects of corporate immigration, including nonimmigrant visa, permanent residency, and citizenship applications. Michelle represents top multinational organizations across a wide range of industries, including technology, consulting, staffing, life sciences, financial services, and professional services. Michelle provides advisory services to clients’ HR and Talent Acquisition teams and legal departments to build effective immigration programs and understand the business impact of an ever-changing immigration landscape.

 

Jason Burritt

Jason partners with clients to facilitate the recruitment, hiring, and retention of foreign nationals, while minimizing disruption to day-to-day business activities. Given quickly changing immigration policies, rules, and agency interpretations, clients face challenges employing and retaining the foreign workers vital to their business strategies. Jason provides both practical and creative solutions to these immigration challenges. Jason has experience with clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, giving him a unique ability to address issues and agency challenges in both traditional and creative ways. His specific focus in financial services provides him with a unique insight into the challenges that employers who recruit, hire, and retain foreign workers in this sector encounter. In addition, he has deep experience with respect to the E-2 non-immigrant visa classification, both for startups and large corporations.