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E-Mail: lcole@dinse.com
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Areas of Practice Concentration:
Immigration for employers in Education, Healthcare and Business; Global Business Migration.
Description of Practice:
Ms. Cole, a director of the firm, advises institutional and business clients, including colleges and universities and hospitals, applying her broad ranging experience in immigration law and business migration matters.
Ms. Cole’s practice involves assisting education and healthcare institutions and businesses employing and educating internationals. Ms. Cole represents clients from Canada and Mexico entering the United States to do business or work under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). She advises clients regarding U.S. immigration laws and options available to international professionals, skilled workers and business owners to pursue opportunities in the U.S. market. She counsels clients seeking to employ non-U.S. citizens in the United States, and prepares visa petitions to authorize international professors, scholars, business owners and executives, managers, employees with specialized knowledge, professionals, health care workers, and other eligible workers for employment in the United States.
Prior Experience:
Ms. Cole joined the firm after practicing with Gravel and Shea in Burlington, Vermont from 1996 to 2000. Ms. Cole started her law practice in upstate New York with the law firm of O'Connell and Aronowitz in Albany and Plattsburgh, New York. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Cole was employed as a legislative analyst for small business economic development with the New York State Assembly and as a paralegal.
Education:
- Albany Law School of Union University (J.D. 1991)
- Editor-in-Chief, Albany Law Review, 1990 to 1991
- Cornell University (B.A. 1985), Government; Agricultural Trade Policy
- Philips Exeter Academy (1981)
Admissions:
- U.S. District Court, District of Vermont
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
- U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
- Vermont Supreme Court
- New York Appellate Division, Third Department
Professional Affiliations:
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Vermont Bar Association
- Member, New York Bar Association
- Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
- Member, National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA)
- Member, NAFSA: Association of International Educators
- Best Lawyers
Professional Activities:
- The Dinse Blog: Issues and Insight http://blog.dinse.com]
- Director, Wake Robin Corporation, August 2007 to present; member, Finance Committee
- President and Chair, Far Post Soccer Club, Inc.; director, 2003 to present
- Leadership Champlain, a division of the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, Director, August 2007 to present
- Creator and leader, Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR) Circle of discussion group on socially responsible business practices (January 2007 to December 2008)
- Member, AILA Committee on Health Care Professionals (Non-Physicians), 2007 - 2008
- Director, Lake Champlain Land Trust, 2001 to 2007 (term limit)
- Senior Editor, Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook published annually by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) (1999 to present)
- Founding Director, South Hero Land Trust, 1996 to 1998
- Leadership Champlain, Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, Class of 1998
Publications:
- Chapter 4, Immigration, Annual Review of Higher Education Law & Policy: Major Developments from 2008 (Council on Law in Higher Education) (March 2009), www.clhe.org