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Iandoli, Desai, & Cronin has two immediate openings for a Business Immigration Paralegal and a Practice Manager. We are dynamic eight attorney and twelve paralegal immigration law firm serving professionals, businesses, and academic institutions. Our clients are leaders in medicine, engineering, biotechnology, and academia.

Business Immigration Paralegal:

  • Assist attorneys in the preparation and filing of employment-based immigrant (EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3) and nonimmigrant (H-1B, O-1, E-2, E-3, L-1 and TN) petitions and supporting documentation

  • Assemble petitions and application packages

  • Communicate with individual clients, HR representatives and government agencies

  • Help individuals gather necessary information/documents

  • Use specialized Case Management software to monitor deadlines and expirations and draft petitions and applications

  • Draft support letters and other documents

  • Track client communications and government correspondence

  • Additional administrative duties may include answering phones, scheduling appointments, generating invoices, filing, and other ad hoc tasks.

Must have a bachelor’s degree and excellent writing, computer, interpersonal, organizational, and time management skills. Must be able to meet rigid deadlines and prioritize tasks.

NO JDs, LLBs, LLMs, or current/matriculating law students.

Please email résumé and cover letter to careers@iandoli.com

No phone calls please. Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted

Practice Manager:
We are seeking a experienced immigration professional to engage in the following duties:

Improve/Streamline Process Flow:

  • Develop or enhance, implement, and document internal case processing and procedures.

  • Review current internal paralegal workflow processes and procedures to document procedures in place.

  • Develop or enhance and implement paralegal case management processes and procedures.

  • Train or re-train paralegals on proper processes and procedures.

  • Work with Billing to identify areas for improvement as they relate to Paralegal involvement.

Database Management & Reporting: 

  • Serve as Point of Contact with our Edge/LawLogix database.

  • Develop and create weekly client reports for paralegal/attorney teams.

  • Coordinate with paralegals to ensure client database is updated as need.

  • Develop and run weekly case reports for each paralegal/attorney team to ensure adequate staffing and fair distribution of cases amongst paralegals.

Training:

  • Identify training needs and develops, implement, and manage paralegal training manual and program for onboarding and for continuing education.

  • Update training materials as needed.

  • Conduct hands-on paralegal training, to include substantive immigration law as well as filing procedures and internal protocols.

  • Chair biweekly or monthly paralegal group meetings on “hot topics”.

Career Development and Team-Building:

  • Develop in-depth understanding of professional development needs within the group and manages satisfaction and retention initiatives.

  • Manage annual review process for attorneys and paralegals.

  • Prepares and follows through on individual attorney and paralegal development plans.

  • Develops and manages initiatives to create a cohesive team and meaningful connections within the group.

  • Facilitates communication within the group, including proactively developing and managing various practice group communications.

Special Projects:

  • Manage closing file/scanning process.

  • Transition our fee agreements into templates and manage the process to send clients prior to engagement.

  • Oversee updating and creating client materials, including approval packages, process memos or guides, etc.

  • Review and billing process.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of experience in a senior level capacity at an immigration law firm

  • Expert knowledge of procedural requirements for various types of nonimmigrant and immigrant visas and client processes.

  • Knowledge of case management systems, preferably Edge/LawLogix.

  • Experience corresponding with clients directly on case processing and other procedural matters.

  • Ability to prioritize own work and team’s work and take on multiple projects.

  • Excellent attention to detail.

  • Excellent organizational skills

  • Strong facility with case management reporting analytics.

  • Exercises excellent independent judgment.

Please email résumé and cover letter to careers@iandoli.com with “Practice Manager” in the subject line. No phone calls please. Absolutely no recruiters. Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Work exclusively from home is not feasible for either of these positions.  We are in a hybrid model allowing up to 2 days work from home.