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Lisa LeGrand Gregory
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Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
7500 N Dreamy Draw Dr #230
Phoenix AZ 85020
United States
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
2755 Orchard Pkwy
San Jose CA 95134
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Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
555 Montgomery St, 4th Floor
San Francisco CA 94111
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Lisa leverages 27 years of corporate immigration experience to help some of the world’s most important companies evolve and enrich their businesses.
A Fragomen Global Partner, Lisa is the co-manager and co-visionary behind the firm’s Immigration Program Management Practice Group in the United States, which spearheads global strategic planning and management for approximately 1,000 multinational companies of every size and from every sector.
At first glance, Lisa’s practice involves the complex work of helping global clients move talent across the world—a mission that demands a capacious understanding of the regional immigration laws in countless jurisdictions. On a deeper level, she identifies the opportunities afforded to her clients by international immigration, opening up new perspectives on a variety of business issues including talent recruitment and retention, benchmarking, compliance, new technology, service and product rollouts, facilities planning and construction, workforce buildup and reduction, and M&A transactions.
Education
- University of Arizona College of Law, Master of Law, 1995
- University of Arizona, J.D., 1994
- University of Arizona, B.A., magna cum laude , 1991
More from Lisa
Admissions
Bar Admissions: Arizona
Court Admissions: U.S. District Court, District of Arizona
Practice Limited to Federal Immigration & Nationality Law
Professional accomplishments
Member, American Bar Association
Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
Member, Arizona State Bar Association, International Law and Immigration Sections
Former Member, AILA National Board of Governors
Former AILA Arizona Chapter Chair
Former AILA Arizona Chapter Treasurer/Secretary
Former Member, the Bar of the City of New York
Former Member, Arizona Women Lawyers Association
Experience
Managed the in-house immigration department for a Fortune 100 company with four offices around the United States, with responsibility for developing corporate immigration policies, managing immigration cases for employees through their immigration life cycle, training internal management/human resources on immigration and I-9 issues, and supporting immigration lobbying issues.
Provided counsel to a multinational organization seeking to implement a global immigration program across more than 100 jurisdictions.
Designed and implemented multi-jurisdictional immigration program management policies for major multinational companies.
Reviewed internal immigration policies for clients and recommended courses of action for process improvement.
Publications and lectures
Author, “Do high unemployment rates have an impact on business immigration in Sub-Saharan Africa?” Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber Infocom, 2016.
Author, “Is a visa free license to enter the Republic?” Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber Infocom, 2016.
Featured, Business Leader, Africa in Engineering News, 2016.
Author, “Is training a local worker fair trade for bringing on a foreign employee?” Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber Infocom, 2015.
Co-Author, “Downsizing and Layoffs: Business Immigration.” Mid-Year AILA Conference Published Materials, Washington DC: American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2003.
Co-Author, “Expedited Removal: The Basics” and “Abandonment of Permanent Residence Status.” In Coming to America: Entry Issues in the Current Immigration Landscape, edited by Michael Turansick, Kathleen Campbell Walker and Carol P. Hobson, Washington DC: American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2002.
Co-Author, Underground Storage Tanks, A Review of Mexican and American Environmental Laws in Relation to Underground Storage Tanks, Arizona: Arizona Supreme Court, Arizona/Sonora Judicial Relations Project, 1996.
Lisa’s insights
August 4, 2016 | Work permits
