TROY, Mich., Sept. 24, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Dickinson
Wright PLLC is pleased to announce that Attorney Elissa Noujaim Pinto has joined the firm's
Troy office as Of Counsel.
Over the last seventeen years, Ms. Pinto has focused her
immigration practice on business immigration, and she has gained
extensive experience representing local, national and international
companies in obtaining authorization for foreign national employees
to work temporarily and permanently in the United States, through various
work-authorized visa classifications and employment-based permanent
residence processes.
Ms. Pinto regularly provides comprehensive guidance to business
clients with respect to their foreign national workforce, including
short and long-term strategy and planning, immigration compliance
as well as immigration-related issues that arise on a daily basis.
She has assisted clients with internal audits and provides useful
and practical training on how to conduct self-audits to ensure
compliance with ever-evolving and complex immigration laws and
policies. Ms. Pinto has also advised on the drafting and
establishment of immigration policies and practices for companies,
in conjunction with human resources personnel and management input.
She regularly provides training that is tailored to company
workforce and foreign employment policies and practices, including
strategy and best-practice reviews to streamline the immigration
process for human resources staff, management, and their foreign
national employees.
This year, Ms. Pinto has given several presentations in
Portuguese in various cities in Brazil, including a seminar hosted by the
Brazilian American Chamber (AmCham Brasil) on the U.S. business
immigration process, and a series of seminars in collaboration with
Baker Tilly on the EB-5 Investor Greencard process. This fall she
is collaborating with Baker Tilly on another series of seminars on
the EB-5 program, to be presented in Portuguese in Sao Paulo and Rio de
Janeiro. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers
Association, the American Bar Association's International Law
Section, and the State Bar of Michigan's International Law Section. She is
recognized as a leader in her field by Best Lawyers in America,
Michigan Super Lawyers "Rising Stars", and was featured in the
"2018 Powered by Women" section in DBusiness.
Ms. Pinto received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from
Wayne State University Law School. She
is fluent in Portuguese (Brazilian) and proficient in Spanish and
French.
About Dickinson Wright PLLC
Dickinson Wright PLLC is a general practice business law firm with
more than 475 attorneys among more than 40 practice areas and 16
industry groups. Headquartered in Detroit and founded in 1878, the firm has 19
offices, including six in Michigan
(Detroit, Troy, Ann
Arbor, Lansing,
Grand Rapids, and Saginaw) and 12 other domestic offices in
Austin and El Paso, Texas; Columbus, Ohio; Ft.
Lauderdale, Fla.; Lexington,
Ky.; Nashville and Music
Row, Tenn.; Las Vegas and
Reno, Nev.; Phoenix, Ariz.; Silicon Valley, Calif.; and
Washington, D.C. The firm's
Canadian office is located in Toronto.
Dickinson Wright offers our clients a distinctive combination of
superb client service, exceptional quality, value for fees,
industry expertise and business acumen. As one of the few law firms
with ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification, Dickinson Wright has built
state-of-the-art, independently-verified risk management controls
and security processes for our commercial transactions. Dickinson
Wright lawyers are known for delivering commercially-oriented
advice on sophisticated transactions and have a remarkable record
of wins in high-stakes litigation. Dickinson Wright lawyers are
regularly cited for their expertise and experience by Chambers,
Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, and other leading independent law firm
evaluating organizations.
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