Description:
Job Summary:As an Immigration Attorney, you'll guide clients through immigration matters with clear legal counsel, careful case management, and strong advocacy. You'll assess each case, explain options and procedures, and prepare legal documents and arguments. This role requires immigration law expertise; experience in other practice areas may be useful but is not required.
Duties:
- Advise and represent clients on immigration matters; communicate case status, options, and next steps clearly.
- Conduct legal and statutory research, analyze procedural requirements, and prepare legal writing, motions, and filings.
- Manage case records and deadlines, draft contracts and other legal documents, and prepare for hearings, depositions, and trials.
- Negotiate with opposing parties and agencies, and provide legal advocacy in litigation when needed.
- Your impact: Clear guidance and thorough case preparation help clients understand their options and pursue their matters with confidence.
Skills:
- Essential: Immigration law, legal research, legal writing and drafting, client communication, legal counsel, negotiation, litigation, procedural law knowledge, and legal case management.
- Relevant experience: Law office or legal administrative experience; court depositions, trial preparation, legal motion preparation, and general or commercial litigation.
- Additional practice-area knowledge may be helpful: Family, employment, landlord-tenant, estate planning, environmental, securities, workers' compensation, tribal, patent, and personal injury law; employment law case experience and personal injury case experience.
- Research tools: LexisNexis and Westlaw; strong writing skills and statutory legal research.
