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S&W Retains Top Immigration Lawyer to Enhance its Corporate PracticePress Release, February 28, 2007Boston, Mass…February 28, 2007 – Sullivan & Worcester LLP announced today that it has added the talents of one of the nation’s top immigration attorneys to its corporate team. Lawrence D. Bastone has joined the firm as Of Counsel and will utilize his long and varied experience to establish an immigration law expertise within Sullivan & Worcester to more broadly serve Sullivan & Worcester’s international and domestic clients in complex matters calling for tailored-to-the-client strategic immigration planning and which will focus on providing highly personalized immigration law expertise to businesses, professionals, entrepreneurs and lawyers’ clients. His addition complements not only the firm’s expanding corporate law practice but all of the firm’s many other service areas which may interact with foreign nationals subject to U.S. immigration laws. “Violating federal immigration employment law can be costly to a company regardless of whether or not the violation was intentional,” said Joel R. Carpenter, a Managing Partner at Sullivan & Worcester’s Boston office. “Throughout his extensive career, Larry has helped both employers and employees understand the process and their responsibilities both in maintaining and submitting documentation.” “As the U.S. workforce continues to shrink, and highly-skilled foreign nationals — together with U.S.-educated and trained foreign nationals — increasingly seek business and professional opportunities outside of the U.S., local employers are widening their search to attract the best global talent and investment partners,” said Bastone. “My objective is to help businesses operating in or seeking to operate in the U.S., together with highly-skilled prospective employees, secure the necessary approvals to move forward, successfully, efficiently, predictably and quickly. Immigration law has long been regarded as one of America’s most complex bodies of law, one which is made more complex by its uncommonly discretionary and non-intuitive nature. It is this highly specialized process which I take particular pride in disassembling and representing to clients in an easily understood way which allows them to quickly identify the action points to be taken and how best to manage the process, allowing them to turn their attention to the more important business implementation issues.” Lawrence D. Bastone Mr. Bastone founded Bastone Associates in Boston in 1973 as a boutique practice specializing in U.S. immigration law; the firm was awarded an “AV” rating by Martindale-Hubbell and listed in its Bar Register of Preeminent Law Firms. Between receiving his B.S.B.A. degree from Babson College and his J.D. degree from Boston University, he graduated from the U.S. Army’s Infantry School and was commissioned at Fort Benning, Georgia and later spent two years working at the U.S. Embassy, then in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the author of numerous immigration-related articles, most pertaining to business and professional U.S. immigration law, and particularly focusing on such topics as Alien Employment [Labor] Certification, Temporary Specialty Occupation [H-1B] Workers, Temporary [L-1] and Permanent Intracompany Transferee Workers, in addition to written works examining waivers for foreign physicians, implications of criminal law provisions upon U.S. immigration law, laws pertaining to Academic Students (F-1), Exchange Visitors (J-1), refugees/asylees and immigration practice automation. About Sullivan & Worcester LLP
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