I used to always hear that making changes to Medicare or Social Security benefits for retirees was the third rail of politics. That certainly does not seem to be the case anymore (at least for the last 8 – 10 years). In recent years, immigration policy has become...
Lord only knows what the elections will bring in November. For sure, a new president. What about the House? The Senate? I have no idea. What I do know, however, is that not much is happening in Congress right now, and in the world of immigration, the not-so-new...
Many years ago, I was appointed by then-Chief Judge Judith Kaye to sit on the Commission to Examine Solo and Small Firm Practice. My specific role on the Commission was to examine the availability and affordability of professional malpractice insurance for solo and...
I try to balance my use of this space. I try to educate, but I certainly do not shy away from offering my opinion (something I learned from my old friend and colleague, Mike Friedman, Esq.) This piece will be a mix of the former and the latter. U.S. Citizenship and...
I’ve spent a lot of time in this space hemming and hawing about the world that I practice law in. One thing I’ve written about ad nauseum is the stupidity of having to sometimes advise some corporate clients that the only way they can hire a foreign specialty...
My annual missive about the tragicomedy that is the H-1B filing season is once again upon us. I would normally dive into this with some commentary about the H-1B program, how ridiculous it is that our clients have to endure a lottery process to see if they can hire...
I saw an article recently in our local weekly newspaper, Saratoga Today, reporting that the Northern Border Regional Commission (“NBRC”), a federal-state partnership for economic and community development within the most distressed counties of Maine, New Hampshire,...
Crimmigration, the sometimes-scary intersection between federal and state criminal laws, and U.S. immigration law. More specifically, it is a body of law that has evolved in the immigration law (e.g., statutes, regulations and court decisions) that deals with criminal...
The president of the Albany County Bar Association recently wrote an excellent article about remote work, offering his thoughts about whether it’s good or bad, and asking for others’ thoughts on the issue. Here are mine (and to make them relevant, I’m sprinkling in...
In a totally different context, someone recently told my wife that life is complicated. It is, to say the least. In an era marked by globalization and the pursuit of better opportunities, for better or worse, migration has become a significant feature of modern...