Lauren M. Hopwood

Lauren Hopwood leads the firm’s business immigration practice. Lauren focuses her practice on complex employment-based immigration matters, including National Interest Waiver petitions, J-1 Waivers, O-1 petitions and Extraordinary Ability (EB-1) petitions. She represents national and multinational companies and institutions in a broad array of industries, with a particular emphasis in the health care sector.

She regularly represents employers in connection with filing nonimmigrant visa petitions, including but not limited to H-1Bs, L-1s, TNs, E-2s and E-3s. She also regularly files immigrant visa petitions, labor certification applications, adjustment of status and citizenship applications and family-based petitions.

In addition, Lauren counsels clients on I-9 Compliance and the immigration consequences of mergers and acquisitions and other changes in corporate structure.

Lauren has spoken on employment-based immigration topics, by invitation, at many conferences and legal education courses.

Good to know

Job Types Attorney
Areas of Practice 1) Employment Counseling, 2) Training & Audits and 3) Immigration & Naturalization
Law School University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D.,2005)
Education University of Vermont (B.A.,1999)
Bar Member / Association Connecticut State Bar Association
Most recent firm LeClairRyan
LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-filiberto-hopwood-8347678
Barbara A. Fitzgerald
Barbara A. Fitzgerald

Ms. Fitzgerald represents employers in a wide range of industries, including the entertainment, financial services, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, and transportation industries.

Barbara J. Shander
Barbara J. Shander

Ms. Shander advises public and private company clients as well as private equity funds, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, and financing transactions.

Brian M. Jazaeri
Brian M. Jazaeri

Brian M. Jazaeri is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice. Mr. Jazaeri represents clients in complex commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on class action matters and financial services, healthcare and technology litigation.