Mr. Lebowitz focuses on business immigration and specifically represents both public and private employers in securing temporary and permanent visas for foreign national employees and performing artists.  Listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Philadelphia Magazine’s Pennsylvania Super Lawyers for Immigration Law, Mr. Lebowitz is also a prolific author and speaker, and has been extensively quoted in professional journals, newspapers and magazine articles both regionally and nationally.  Mr. Lebowitz is Cohen & Grigsby’s Vice President of Marketing.

Larry’s areas of focus include:

• Immigration
• Nonimmigrant (temporary ) business visas (in particular E, H and L visas)
• Labor certification
• Permanent resident status 

Bar Admissions

• Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, 1987

Education

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

Noteworthy

• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Immigration Law, 1997-2006
• Listed in Philadelphia Magazine’s "Pennsylvania Super Lawyers"
• Listed in Who’s Who in Law Education

Memberships

• Member, Young Leadership Group of the United Way
• Board of Directors, British American Business Council
• Board of Directors, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
• Member, Leadership Pittsburgh, XX
• Mentor, Career Literacy for African American Youth (CLAAY) Program

Professional Activities

• Adjunct Professor of Immigration Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law

Seminars & Speeches

• SEVIS Roundtable: Basics and Beyond, Pennsylvania Council for International Education (September 29-30, 2006)
• Strategies for Pursuing Permanent Residence for Foreign National Physicians and Nurses, American Health Lawyers Association Teleconference (May 24, 2005)
• Staying on Top of Ever-Changing Immigration Laws, Pittsburgh Technology Council (May 22, 2003)
• The Placement & Retention of Foreign Physicians Within U.S. Medical Facilities, American Health Lawyers Association Teleconference (October 15, 2002)
• 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 (October 16, 2001)

Publications

• Author, Outward Bound – An American in Paris… or Munich or Tokyo, Mid-Atlantic Executive Legal Adviser (Spring 2006)

• Co-author, An Overview of the New PERM Labor Certification Process, Labor & Employment, American Health Lawyers Association (Spring 2005)

• Quoted, Pitt Business School Helps Place International MBA Students by Assisting with Visa Costs, Complications, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (May 11, 2005)
• Quoted, Time to Get Back:  NHL Players Must Travel From Far and Wide to Reunite, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (February 19, 2005)
• Quoted, Staying Put for the Holidays, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (December 24, 2004)
• Co-author, International Medical Graduates: Obtaining a Waiver of the Two-Year Foreign Residency Requirement, Allegheny County Medical Society Bulletin (July 2004)
• Author, Immigration Update:  What Has/Has Not Changed for Canadians Since 9/11, Florida Journal (Fall/Winter 2003)
• Author, Immigration Strategies for Hiring Staff, Nursing Homes Magazine (May 2003)
• Co-author, For the Nonimmigrant Visa Holder: How to Obtain a Social Security Number, Cohen & Grigsby Review (Spring 2003)
• Co-author, A Summary of the Changes in Immigration Policies and Practices After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001:  The USA Patriot Act and Other Measures, University of Pittsburgh Law Review (Summer 2002, Volume 63, Issue 4)
• Author, Hiring Foreign Nurses, Assisted Living Success (November 2001)
• Author, Lobbying for H-1B Visas, Cohen & Grigsby Review (Summer 2000)
• Author, Visa Lottery 2000, Cohen & Grigsby Review (Summer 1998)
• Author, The H-1B Visa:  Myths v. Reality, Cohen & Grigsby Review (Spring 1998)
• Quoted, High-Tech Execs Rally for Help:  Cap on Foreign Professionals Causing Shortage of Workers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 1, 1998)