Seyfarth Expands Immigration Practice, Welcomes Sharon Poorak in Atlanta

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Brian Kiefer, Director of Public Relations
(312) 460-6401, bkiefer@seyfarth.com

Ivette Delgado, Senior Public Relations Associate
(212) 218-5273, idelgado@seyfarth.com

ATLANTA (November 19, 2012) — Leading law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today that Sharon Cook Poorak has joined as senior counsel in the firm's Immigration Practice in Atlanta. Poorak was previously a partner at law firm Frazier, Soloway, Poorak & Kennedy.

Poorak focuses her practice on business immigration law, bringing more than 25 years of business immigration experience to Seyfarth. During her legal career, she has also held a number of high-profile positions in the immigration law community, serving as Director of Education for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, practicing business immigration law at Alston & Bird, and  serving as Director of the Detention Project for Catholic Social Services.

“Sharon is a veteran attorney and very well-known figure in the business immigration community -- we are delighted to welcome her to the team,” said James King, co-chair of Seyfarth’s Business Immigration Practice. “Looking ahead, we plan to continue expanding our practice in the near term to meet the growing needs of our clients, many of whom are aggressively adopting our SeyfarthLean^® tools and practices to help manage their immigration matters.”

Poorak graduated from Georgia State University with a J.D. and B.S. in Criminal Justice, and has practiced exclusively in the field of immigration law. As Director of Education for the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington, D.C., she developed the educational programs for the association's 10,000 members based upon the latest immigration law developments from Congress and federal agencies, and she represented indigent individuals in immigration custody as Director of the Detention Project for Catholic Social Services. She has been a frequent speaker at various immigration conferences nationwide, a guest lecturer on business immigration law, and most recently, a panel member representing practitioners debating the impact of the new Georgia immigration laws with various law makers, law school professors and law enforcement officials.

Seyfarth Shaw has over 800 attorneys located in 10 offices throughout the United States, including: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Sacramento, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., as well as internationally in London. Seyfarth Shaw provides a broad range of legal services in the areas of labor and employment, employee benefits, litigation, corporate and real estate. The firm’s clients include over 300 of the Fortune 500 companies, and our practice reflects virtually every industry and segment of the economy. For more information, please visit www.seyfarth.com.