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Lisa LeGrand Gregory

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Lisa leverages 29 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.

Her thorough, in-the-grain understanding of her clients’ business is the natural complement to this vast knowledge of global immigration law. By immersing herself in her clients’ culture and operations, she can offer strategic advice about any business objective with an immigration component, no matter how many jurisdictions or workers are involved.

Lisa has a background in international trade law that has informed her practice as an immigration professional for her entire career. Lisa began her immigration career managing the global corporate immigration function of a Fortune 100 company, gaining a critical and direct understanding of her current corporate clients’ needs. At Fragomen alone, she’s worked as an attorney specializing in U.S. immigration and a global immigration program manager, designing and implementing immigration programs for numerous clients; co-developed and managed the firm’s Due Diligence and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act programs; established the firm’s Canadian office in Toronto; and served as Managing Partner of Fragomen’s Johannesburg and Nairobi offices. In this last capacity, she was responsible for leading the firm’s Sub-Saharan Africa practice.

Lisa has provided pro bono immigration services to the New York City Commission for the United Nations, Consular Corps and Protocol, Division for International Business. Lisa also participated as an immigration expert on a panel reviewing the visa regime for the Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of South Africa. The panel was convened by the Minister to provide recommendations to overhaul of South Africa’s visa mechanisms and propose innovative ways to improve its adjudication processes.

Her thorough, in-the-grain understanding of her clients’ business is the natural complement to this vast knowledge of global immigration law. By immersing herself in her clients’ culture and operations, she can offer strategic advice about any business objective with an immigration component, no matter how many jurisdictions or workers are involved.

Lisa has a background in international trade law that has informed her practice as an immigration professional for her entire career. Lisa began her immigration career managing the global corporate immigration function of a Fortune 100 company, gaining a critical and direct understanding of her current corporate clients’ needs. At Fragomen alone, she’s worked as an attorney specializing in U.S. immigration and a global immigration program manager, designing and implementing immigration programs for numerous clients; co-developed and managed the firm’s Due Diligence and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act programs; established the firm’s Canadian office in Toronto; and served as Managing Partner of Fragomen’s Johannesburg and Nairobi offices. In this last capacity, she was responsible for leading the firm’s Sub-Saharan Africa practice.

Lisa has provided pro bono immigration services to the New York City Commission for the United Nations, Consular Corps and Protocol, Division for International Business. Lisa also participated as an immigration expert on a panel reviewing the visa regime for the Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of South Africa. The panel was convened by the Minister to provide recommendations to overhaul of South Africa’s visa mechanisms and propose innovative ways to improve its adjudication processes.

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

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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 Section

Member, Arizona State Bar Association, Immigration Section

 

Member, Tennessee Relocation Council

Member, Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) – Tennessee

Mentor, GBTA WinIT, 2024-2025

Member, Catholic Business League (Tennessee)

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.

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August 4, 2016 | Work permits

Immigration: Transfer Skills from a Foreign Employee in South AfricaRead more

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Immigration: Transfer Skills from a Foreign Employee in South AfricaRead more

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Immigration: Transfer Skills from a Foreign Employee in South AfricaRead more

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