Senior Immigration Lawyer

The role

Fragomen is seeking a Senior Immigration Lawyer for their Toronto, Canada office. This role will focus on employment-based immigration matters and requires 2-3 years of PQE.

What you'll do

• Develop an expert-level understanding of your client base and the industries you support as well as the firm’s practice areas and services provided
• Develop case strategies, including researching, drafting, reviewing, counseling clients and triaging initiations
• Identify and solve escalations and areas of underperformance
• Regularly communicate with clients and foreign nationals regarding procedural, case processing issues, and case strategy
• Support clients in immigration program management and compliance
• Assess eligibility of corporate foreign national employees for non-immigrant and immigrant visa status
• Work with client global mobility personnel to prepare petitions and applications for submission to government agencies for non-immigrant and immigrant foreign national employees
• Draft and prepare letters and legal documents, typically based on established precedents
• Conduct research to support client requests and projects
• Proactively communicate with clients, within SLAs/team protocols and with a precise, efficient, thoughtful, and organized response
• Partner with colleagues to resolve client issues, share information, and support client projects
• Directly or indirectly supervise junior Associates and other staff, providing mentoring and coaching while proactively sharing immigration knowledge and expertise
• Regularly seek out and implement opportunities to improve quality, efficiency, and standardization with processes, products, or services
• Demonstrate a willingness to learn and effectively implement guidance and direction offered by supervisors and experienced colleagues
• Use firm technology accurately and in line with team and client protocols, ensuring accurate and complete data is entered
• Actively contribute to team meetings and firmwide activities
• Ensure self and team follow documented firm standards and policy to mitigate risk and ensure regulatory, operational and client compliance

What we're looking for

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