FordHarrison LLP, one of the country's largest management-side labor and employment law firms, is pleased to announce the addition of Loren C. Locke as Senior Associate in the Atlanta office and the firm's business immigration practice group.
"We are excited to have Loren join the firm," said John Monroe, Office Managing Partner of the firm's Atlanta office. "She is dedicated to her practice and committed to delivering the highest level of customer service."
"Loren's years of hands-on experience dealing with immigration issues will make her a valuable asset to our team," said Geetha Adinata, Partner and leader of the firm's business immigration practice group.
Loren focuses her practice on the representation of employers and employees in issues related to business immigration. She works directly with both individual foreign nationals and their employers to help them obtain a variety of nonimmigrant and immigrant visas and to achieve lawful permanent residence in the U.S.
Before joining this firm, Loren worked as a Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. State Department. She served for two years as a consular officer in the U.S. Consulate General in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. There, she adjudicated some 12,000 non-immigrant visas of all types, and adjudicated dozens of U.S. citizenship claims. While still a law student, Loren worked as a judicial clerk for Judge Raymond W. Gruender of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and as a legal intern for the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago.