Attorney I at The Planet Group

Job Title: Attorney 1
Contract Duration: Tentative start date: Nov 4, 2024 through Jun 30, 2025 (Assignment extensions occur quarterly. The selected candidate has the potential to stay in the role for up to 18 months.)
Pay: $44.50-$48.50
Onsite/Remote/Hybrid (if onsite/hybrid please give city/town name): On Site; In Office 5 days a week; Redmond, WA
Must Haves: The role requires 1+ overall years of experience in the field.
Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience
1. 1+ Year of Immigration experience (some sort) – Business would be great, but they need to have something even if its family based.
2. JD degree
Preferred: The ideal resume would contain a high-volume experience.
Job Description:
The main function of an Attorney is to research legal precedent, investigating facts, or preparing legal documents. A typical Attorney is responsible for conducting research to support a legal proceeding, formulate a defense or to initiate legal action.

Review of non-immigrant and immigrant visa filings. Require a Law Degree from a credible university and admission to the bar. 1 plus year of immigration experience, preferably in employment-based immigration, but will also accept family-based immigration experience. Normal rhythm of business with petition review. Coming into a busy time of the year based on volume increase.

Typical Day in the Role:
• Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is to work on employment-based immigration.
• Key projects: This role will contribute to supporting high volume U.S. business immigration operations including petition review, I-9, e-mail response support, and ensuring legal compliance with daily filings.
• Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of -
• Use U.S. immigration legal knowledge to ensure daily workflow targets are completed and maintain integrity of the onsite case preparation program.
• Train admins on USCIS filings, USCIS document processing, and PERM job postings, assist with daily admin questions, and review work product to ensure legal accuracy and quality.
• Assist with root cause analysis and resolution for legal and operational issues.
• Identify and propose legal process improvement ideas to increase legal quality, improve employee experience, streamline workflow, and build operational resiliency.
• Complete remote and onsite legal review of filings.
• Address legal questions that arise related to I-9 completion and E-Verify.
• Support complex E-Verify issue resolution.
• Train and monitor admins who support I-9 reverification.
• Assist managers with understanding PERM requirements and obligations during applicant review
• Respond to emails from visa dependent employees on topics including visa and green card eligibility, travel, and maintenance of status.

Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition:
• What makes this role interesting? - This role provides the opportunity to have broader business immigration experience.
• Unique Selling Points: The team is cutting edge on their operations piece of immigration. Will gain experience in how to manage to that high-volume and how to structure.