LITWIN & SMITH - Key Persons

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DONALD E. SMITH is an accessible and responsive former corporate counsel and seasoned immigration attorney with a dedication to client service and passion for client success. He provides outstanding immigration counsel to clients with a reputation for successful representations of challenging and complex practice and policy concerns resolving these with creativity and knowledge that combines "out of the box" thinking with hands-on experience from "ground-up" business building. When immigration matters he provides good counsel. He advises clients on law, alternative strategies, and actions to achieve their immigration goals for matters from the more common HELO visas and less common EB1 Extraordinary and National Interest Waivers including: E, H1B, H2B, L, LZ, O, P, J, TN, K, Q, R and IV EB1, EB2, NIW, EB5, LC and PERM, AOS consular process, naturalization and I-9 Compliance. As you may know small multinational corporations sometimes face the greatest challenges in meeting their U.S. immigration needs. He has extensive experience counseling small and large multinationals organizations with difficult immigration issues arising from reorganizations, mergers, layoffs and workforce reductions; sophisticated transfers of key personnel using HELO visas, as well as the R and TN non-immigrant visas; obtaining green cards through PERM, as well as expedited EB1 extraordinary ability, EB1 outstanding researcher, EB2 national interest waiver categories; advising on ability to pay, I-9, and public access compliance. He enjoys a long history and commitment to serving small business and large corporations clients alike with expertise in individual matters which allows us to offer a complement of services to our corporate clients with spouses, significant others and/or children in need of immigration benefits. His past and present professional affiliations, activities, and accomplishments include: American Immigration Lawyers Association, American Bar Association, Florida Bar Association, Admitted to the Washington DC Bar, Seminar Publications: Professional Visas (H-1B) and Intracompany Transferee Visas (L-1); and The E Visa; Immigration Interviews on local network TV and radio. He is a speaker before trade groups, associations, investment and professional groups on a variety of immigration topics. He is a consultant to Attorney's with difficult Business RFEs, NOIDs, and Appeals.

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EDWARD R. LITWIN is a nationally recognized immigration law expert and is certified by the California State Bar of Legal Specialization as a Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law. He concentrates in the area of labor certifications and business visas, in addition to providing other immigration services. He is a graduate of Hastings College of Law and has been in practice since 1975. His past and present professional affiliations, activities, and accomplishments include: published articles in the Immigration Journal, Personal News, and Immigration Law & Procedure; speaker at advanced immigration seminars throughout the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico under the auspices of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Practicing Law Institute, California State Bar, and various other bar associations; Adjunct Professor, teaching Immigration and Nationality Law at the University of San Francisco Law School and the McGeorge School of Law; Member: American Immigration Lawyers Association and elected member of its Board of Governors, San Francisco Bar Association, Christian Legal Society, Federal Bar Association, and American Bar Association. He is included in the Best Lawyers in America (Seventh Edition), An International Who's Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers, Who's Who in American Law (Ninth Edition), Who's Who in Executives and Professionals (1999-2000 edition), and National Registry of Who's Who (Life Member), Strathmore's Who's Who (life member). Founder Edward R. Litwin was one of the first lawyers in California to be certified as a specialist in immigration and nationality law according to California State Bar standards of specialization. Donald E. Smith is a senior attorney providing outstanding business immigration counsel to clients. He has a reputation for successful representation of difficult matters and creative applications of the immigration law. He advises clients on law, alternative strategies and actions to achieve their immigration goals for matters, including: E, H-1B, H-2B, L, LZ, O, P, J, TN, K, Q, R and IV EB1, EB2, NIW, EB5, LC and PERM, AOS, consular process, naturalization and I-9 compliance. Our attorneys are knowledgeable and experienced. We are interested in helping you resolve any immigration issues you, your family or your employees may face. Contact a Bay Area immigration attorney from Litwin & Smith.