Profile: H Ronald Klasko

Corporate Immigration

Biography: Corporate Immigration

Mr Klasko is one of only two immigration lawyers ever honoured by the American Immigration Lawyers Association with its Founders Award, granted to the individual who has had the most positive impact on immigration laws. He was president and three term general counsel of AILA. In that capacity, Mr Klasko negotiated favourable interpretations of new laws and regulations with government lawyers. He has served on the board of governors of AILA for more than 25 years.

Mr Klasko was chosen to represent employers and their lawyers both at the Department of Labour national training symposium and before the US Commission on Immigration Reform. He has also participated in the training of US consular officers and administrative law judges. He has chaired AILA's Business Immigration Committee and its task force on H and L visas.

A former adjunct professor of immigration law, Mr Klasko is a frequent lecturer on immigration law subjects. He also co-authored the two-volume Employers' Immigration Compliance Guide.

Mr Klasko has been selected for Best Lawyers in America annually since 1991. Both he and his law firm have been chosen in the top tier by Chambers Global.

His firm represents many of the world's largest multinational companies in a wide variety of industries and has been chosen in a nationwide polling of clients and peers as the top US firm in the university research and medical sectors. With offices in Philadelphia and New York, the firm's practice is limited to immigration and nationality law matters.