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Education
Northeastern University School of Law, 1989
The Johns Hopkins University, 1984, B.A., International Studies
Laura J. Mazel has more than 18 years’ experience leading corporate and research institution clients through the immigration process. While she has represented a range of companies from start-ups to Fortune 500s, she works most often with high-tech, biotech, nonprofit, and academic and medical research institutions.
Ms. Mazel is proud to have represented members of the National Academy of Sciences. She assists principal investigators as well as younger research scientists and physicians. Ms. Mazel specializes in obtaining permanent visas, based on labor certification, outstanding researcher, national interest waiver, or extraordinary ability for highly credentialed research employees. On the nonimmigrant, or temporary work authorization side, Ms. Mazel’s expertise includes H-1B professional visas, L intracompany transfer visas, Conrad 30 physician H-1B visas and TN professional visas under NAFTA. She also assists with obtaining waivers of the two-year home residency requirement for J visa holders. On the counseling side, Ms. Mazel has a particular interest in helping corporate clients assess the immigration consequences and benefits related to mergers, acquisitions and other corporate restructurings. She has conducted numerous trainings for in-house and outsourced human resource representatives, and conducts internal audits on I-9 documentation, H-1B and LCA compliance to minimize employer liability. For more details on Laura J. Mazel's bar admissions, association memberships, presentations and community service, please click here.
Ms. Mazel has served as national attorney liaison to the U.S. Department of Labor regarding the final publication of rules for the Program Electronic Review Management System (“PERM”) labor certification program, and has conducted trainings on the PERM program for other attorneys. Ms. Mazel has been a frequent speaker at trade association meetings and regional and national law conferences on employment immigration issues.
A native New Englander, Ms. Mazel became intrigued with the international world while living with relatives who worked in the Foreign Service. As a university student, she was awarded a grant to study at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. After law school, Ms. Mazel began her legal career at a large regional law firm based in Portland, and early on focused on immigration issues. She soon practiced exclusively in the area of immigration. She and her husband, a hematologist, live in Piedmont, CA, with their three children, and vacation frequently in Netarts Bay, on the Oregon coast.
Ms. Mazel has served as national attorney liaison to the U.S. Department of Labor regarding the final publication of rules for the Program Electronic Review Management System (“PERM”) labor certification program, and has conducted trainings on the PERM program for other attorneys. Ms. Mazel has been a frequent speaker at trade association meetings and regional and national law conferences on employment immigration issues.
A native New Englander, Ms. Mazel became intrigued with the international world while living with relatives who worked in the Foreign Service. As a university student, she was awarded a grant to study at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. After law school, Ms. Mazel began her legal career at a large regional law firm based in Portland, and early on focused on immigration issues. She soon practiced exclusively in the area of immigration. She and her husband, a hematologist, live in Piedmont, CA, with their three children, and vacation frequently in Netarts Bay, on the Oregon coast.