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Fort Wayne-based law firm Barrett McNagny LLP is adding an immigration practice to its firm, offering services to clients in every phase of the immigration process.
The practice is kickstarted by attorney Aimee Korolev, who joins the firm after serving immigrant families in Texas.
The immigration practice has been several years in the making, Barrett McNagny managing partner H. Joseph Cohen told The Indiana Lawyer. With the need for immigration services growing in Fort Wayne and surrounding areas, the firm knew it needed someone who could take on client matters full time.
“[Korolev] will be able to provide our clients and other entities and individuals in the community assistance, whether that is on a personal basis with their personal immigration needs, from a business standpoint, whether employees of businesses that are here and have immigration needs, which we were running into quite a bit,” Barrett McNagny managing partner H. Joseph Cohen told The Indiana Lawyer. “But I think just as importantly, Amy is a very incredible person, not just professionally, but personally, and I think she will increase the culture that we have here at Barrett and the ability to service our clients in an exceptional manner.”
In her role, Korolev will support both businesses and individuals through the immigration process. Korolev is proficient in Spanish, and her practice includes naturalization and citizenship matters, asylum applications, humanitarian-based immigration relief, family-based petitions and removal defense proceedings.
On the business side of the immigration process, Korolev will guide employers through recruiting, hiring and retaining employees. Her practice includes nonimmigrant visa petitions, employment-based permanent residence processes, labor certification applications and immigration compliance matters such as work authorization requirements and record-keeping obligations.
Korolev brings 15 years of immigration law experience to Barrett McNagny. Prior to joining the firm, she served as deputy director of a nonprofit organization in Texas, offering legal education, representation and services to immigrant adults and children.
Korolev frequently speaks on immigration topics, and participated in the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration and the Federal Bar Association’s Immigration Law Conference. She is also a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
“I’m really excited to step into such an established firm in northeastern Indiana, and in the region, that has thus far been extremely supportive of a new practice area and really integrated in the community and so dedicated to the community and community service, which I think is such an important factor when considering work in the field of immigration,” Korolev told The Indiana Lawyer. “You are often dealing with vulnerable populations, people that don’t understand the laws potentially, and could be taken advantage of, and so having that infrastructure here to walk in on and to help set up a system that is easy for clients to use, I think is really important, and that’s what we’ve seen so far here.”
Barrett McNagny is one of the state’s oldest law partnerships, founded in 1876 in Fort Wayne. The firm is comprised of 46 lawyers with expertise in a range of practice areas, including business and commercial litigation, intellectual property and real estate law.
The firm serves clients in northern Indiana, southern Michigan and western Ohio.
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