Practicing in the area of immigration law for ten years, Ellen focuses on biotech, pharma and academia. She assists clients in industries ranging from health care to manufacturing, on the full spectrum of immigration issues including:

• Advising corporate entities regarding the immigration impact of corporate reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, including drafting opinion letters regarding continuous employment eligibility of foreign national employees.
• Assisting start-up and foreign companies with the establishment of U.S. operations, corporate entity formation and recruitment of talent.
• Counseling human resources and legal departments on compliance issues pertaining to DHS, FDNS, DOL audits and ICE raids.
• Securing temporary work visas (H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-1, E-2, K-1, H-3, P-3 and P-1) and permanent residence for foreign workers.
• Developing corporate communication and immigration strategy during corporate downsizing and layoffs.
• Securing Blanket L status for numerous multinational corporations.
• Devising business immigration strategies for multinational, Fortune 500 and privately held companies.
• Assisting hospitals, medical research organizations and academia with visas, Section 212 (e) J-1 waivers and permanent residence for medical doctors, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, pharmacists and researchers.
  
• Working closely with medical residents to ensure compliance with the terms of residency programs, as well as negotiating contract terms and selecting the best professional offers upon completion of residency programs.
• Drafting independent contractor, service provider and physician service agreements.
  
• Providing in-house training for personnel, human resources, benefits and compensation managers, including the development of training programs.
• Conducting LCA and I-9 employment-eligibility verification audits.
• Counseling U.S. permanent residents throughout and during their temporary assignments abroad, international relocation, complex family issues and citizenship process.
• Counseling spouses of international transferees at the onset as well as throughout international assignment in and outside of the U.S., including immigration assistance for their domestic staff.
• Obtaining approvals on Waivers of Inadmissibility for both nonimmigrant and immigrant visa purposes through the USCIS, as well as U.S. Consulates.
• Pursuing temporary and permanent residence on behalf of tenure-track and research faculty members, researchers and support personnel.
• Counseling foreign student advisors on best practices of addressing immigration needs of foreign students and scholars.
• Assisting offices of international students and scholars with complex immigration law issues.
• Advising incoming and graduating foreign national students on all aspects of immigration law and assisting universities in placement of foreign students and scholars. 
  
• Preparing "outstanding researcher or professor," "extraordinary ability" and "national interest waiver" preference petitions.
  

Ellen regularly speaks to professional associations and companies on a variety of immigration issues, including corporate immigration changes, human resources, legal advocacy, foreign recruitment and employee retention. She has published numerous articles addressing a variety of business immigration topics.

While in law school, Ellen served as a teaching assistant for the Legal Analysis and Writing Program. She won the 1998 Niagara International Moot Court in Chicago. In 2008, she received a certificate of achievement from the American Immigration Lawyers Association for her dedication to public service in the field of immigration law and in honor of her pledge to provide pro bono legal assistance to immigrant communities.

While living in the former Soviet Union, Ellen assisted an international humanitarian organization with the distribution of aide and resettlement of civil war refugees, who were displaced during a conflict in Moldova in 1992. She is fluent in Russian and Ukrainian.