As Chair of the Immigration Group at Cohen & Grigsby, Larry represents public and private employers in securing temporary and permanent visas for foreign national employees.  He also helps individual clients pursue family-based permanent residence as well as U.S. citizenship.  Larry also helped to establish and oversees the outbound/global immigration practice which secures work-authorized visas for people in countries throughout the world.

Experience

Larry is a Director of the firm and a member of the International Business Group.  He previously served as vice president of marketing for Cohen & Grigsby from 2000 to 2007.

Additional Roles

Larry is an adjunct professor of immigration law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the Duquesne University School of Law.

His professional and community involvement includes serving as a member of the Board of Directors for the Mt. Lebanon Foundation for Education and as a coach for youth baseball and soccer teams.  He is also a member of the Young Leadership Group of the United Way, the Board of Directors for the British American Business Council and the Pittsburgh Regional Immigration Assistance Center.

He is a former member of Leadership Pittsburgh XX and the Board of Directors of both the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Temple Emanuel of the South Hills, as well as a former mentor for the Career Literacy for African American Youth Program.

Honors and Achievements

For more than a decade, he has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for immigration law.  He is also listed in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and Who's Who in Law Education.

Larry frequently gives seminar presentations and writes articles related to immigration law for numerous publications.  He was a speaker at the 2008 Immigration/National Security Conference in Virginia.

Additional seminar topics he has presented include "SEVIS Roundtable: Basics and Beyond" for the Pennsylvania Council for International Education; "Strategies for Pursuing Permanent Residence for Foreign National Physicians and Nurses" at the American Health Lawyers Association Teleconference; "Staying on Top of Ever-Changing Immigration Laws," Pittsburgh Technology Council; "The Placement and Retention of Foreign Physicians Within U.S. Medical Facilities," American Health Lawyers Association Teleconference; and "Recruiting and Employing Foreign Nationals: It is Not as Difficult as You May Think in Filling Your Health Care Professional Vacancies," American Health Lawyers Association Teleconference.

He has been quoted in several publications, including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

He wrote "Immigration Update: What Has/Has Not Changed for Canadians Since 9/11" for the Florida Journal; "Immigration Strategies for Hiring Staff" for Nursing Home Magazine; "Hiring Foreign Nurses" for Assisted Living Success; "Outward Bound- An American in Paris or Munich or Tokyo" for the Mid-Atlantic Executive Legal Adviser; and "Lobbying for H-1B Visas" for the Cohen & Grigsby Review.

Larry has also co-authored articles that have been published in the University of Pittsburgh Law Review, the Cohen & Grigsby Review and the Allegheny County Medical Society Bulletin.

Education

• J.D., cum laude, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 1987
• Order of the Coif
• B.A., magna cum laude, University of Pennsylvania, 1984

Bar/Court Admissions

• Pennsylvania