David focuses his practice on employment-based immigration matters for corporate clients in various industries, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, media, information technology, real estate, construction, chemical and environmental engineering, market research and advertising. He has unique experience assisting financial services/asset management firms with their foreign national hiring/employment programs, particularly those firms using a quantitative investing strategy. Accordingly, his clients include some of the top rated “hedge fund” firms in the world.
He advises clients on strategies to obtain work visas and permanent residence status for their employees and potential employees. He prepares all forms of nonimmigrant and immigrant petitions including B-1/B-2, E-2, E-3, H-1B, H-3, J-1, L-1A/L-1B, O-1, P-1 (for athletes and entertainers), TN, EB-1, EB-2 (including exceptional ability), EB-3 and PERM applications. He also provides advice regarding I-9 employment compliance issues and other administrative types of employment immigration matters, such as LCA file preparation and maintenance.
David also handles matters for individual clients involving family-based immigration issues such as I¬130 based immigrant petitions, permanent residence interviews and U.S. naturalization applications.
David frequently works with clients seeking employees with knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, cybersecurity and data science. While he prepares cases for workers at all levels, he has a great deal of experience helping foreign nationals with expertise and extraordinary ability obtain “extraordinary ability” visas, such as the O-1 visa for temporary work and the EB-1A visa for permanent residency. He also prepares and files visa/green card petitions for foreigners with extraordinary ability in AI and related fields who want to come to the United States but do not yet have a job offer.
David has written and published commentary regarding the field of business immigration law and has served as a member of the American Immigration Lawyer Association’s Department of Labor Liaison Committee. Due to his record of outstanding achievement, he has been recognized by the “Best Lawyers” publication as a Best Lawyer in America for Immigration Law for 2025.