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Naomi Schorr
Special Counsel

Naomi Schorr is widely regarded throughout the United States for her scholarship and cutting edge strategies in dealing with employment-based immigration matters. She focuses on multinational corporations and accounting firms, research institutions, law firms and news organizations.

Ms. Schorr speaks frequently on business immigration matters at regional and national conferences, and she has taken a leading role in writing comments to proposed regulations issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the U.S. Department of Labor. Recognized nationally for articles and other contributions to the field, she is listed in Chambers USA – America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers Global, The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, and New York Super Lawyers . In 2007, Ms. Schorr received the Edith Lowenstein Award from the American Immigration Lawyers Association for Excellence in Advancing the Practice of Immigration Law.

Education
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 1983
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M.A., New York University, 1979
B.A., Queens College of the City University of New York, 1974

Bar Admissions
New York, 1984

Court Admissions
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

Other Activities
Recipient, AILA's Presidential Award, 2006
Recipient, AILA's Sam Williamson Mentor Award, 2005
Chair, AILA Issues Development Committee, 2004-06
Member, AILA Issues Development Committee, 2003-04
Member, AILA Business Immigration Committee, 2002-03 and 2006-07
Chair or Member, AILA Comment Committees on proposed government regulations
Editor-in-Chief, Handbook of the Fourth and Fifth Annual AILA New York Chapter Immigration Law Symposiums, 2001 and 2002, and Editor of Handbook of the Third AILA New York Chapter Immigration Law Symposium,1999
Associate Editor and Senior Editor, Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook, 1994-97; 2000-04
Editor, Introducing the 1996 Immigration Reform Act: AILA's New Law Handbook
Member, AILA Annual Conference Program Committee, 1997
Member, AILA Publications Committee, 1993

Professional Affiliations
Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association
Member,  Editorial Board, Bender’s Immigration Bulletin