Steve Clark's Story
Steve has authored over 50 publications on H & L visas, Labor Certification, and Employment-Based Immigration. Currently he writes the “Ask the Expert” column for Immigration Law Today published by AILA. He served as Senior Editor AILA's Annual Conference Handbook, Editor of the chapter on Labor Certification in the treatise Immigration Law and Practice (Times Mirror/Mathew Bender Co.). He has also been listed as one of The Best Lawyers in America under the immigration heading since its inception and is rated "AV," the highest rating conferred by Martindale-Hubbell, an authoritative, independent rating service. Steve is also a founding member of IMMLAW®, the national consortium of preeminent immigration firms with over two centuries of combined immigration law experience.

Listed as top U.S. Immigration lawyer in Chambers Global 2007

Practice Areas:

• Immigration

Education:

• Harvard University, J.D., 1969
• Yale University, B.A., cum laude, 1966

Admissions:

• Massachusetts, 1976
• Kentucky, 1971

Professional Activities:

• Past President, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
• Past Chair, Immigration Committee, Massachusetts Bar Association
• Founding Fellow, Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers (ABIL)
• Founding Member, IMMLAW

Recent Publications:

• "Labor Certifications," Immigration Law and Procedure (Mailman & Yale-Loehr, eds) (Matthew Bender & Co.), 1994-1997, 2005-Present, revisions to Chapter 44;
• “Anatomy of Form ETA 9089,” Annual Conference Handbook, AILA, June 2006, 10 Bender’s Immigratin Bulletin 847 (June 1, 2005); PERM Conference Handbook, New York State Bar Association, May 2005; Stanton Manual on Labor Certification, AILA 2005;
• “New Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) System: A Summary and Initial Analysis (with Jane P. Devlin), Special PERM Issue, Bender’s Immigration Bulletin, Feb. 15, 2005; PERM Guidebook for Foreign Labor Certification (lead article) (S Yale-Loehr, ed), LexisNexis 2005;
• “Obtaining an O-1 for a Physician,” (V. Lau, Co-Author) Immigration Options for Physicians, 2nd Edition (M. Catillaz, Ed.), AILA 2004;
• "H-1B Specialty Workers," 29th & 30th Annual Immigration and Naturalization Institute, Practicing Law Institute.