ImmigrationTracker Replaces INSZoom® at Jackson Lewis LLP
Top-5 Employment Law Firm Selects ImmigrationTracker for Its Intuitive Functionality, Service, and Value
San Francisco, CA—June 13, 2007—ImmigrationTracker, the documented leader in fully-integrated immigration software, today announced that Jackson Lewis LLP, one of the nation's leading workplace law firms, has replaced INSZoom® with ImmigrationTracker.
ImmigrationTracker prides itself on having the most immigration-knowledgeable design and support teams in the industry, in part because it is the only company founded by immigration attorneys for their own use, and because it has two attorneys on staff who've won awards from both the US government and industry associations for their immigration expertise. Jackson Lewis professionals found that this knowledge carries over to all aspects of Tracker's work, including its deployment and training.
For over 45 years, Jackson Lewis has placed a high premium on preventive strategies and positive solutions in the practice of workplace law. They partner with employers to devise policies and procedures promoting constructive employee relations and limiting disputes. With offices in major cities throughout the U.S., Jackson Lewis combines a national perspective with an awareness of local business environments.
Jackson Lewis evaluated a number of potential replacements for its immigration management system. In addition to the more appealing features and interface, Jackson Lewis was surprised to also find that ImmigrationTracker’s product had a stronger price/performance ratio than other products available. A Jackson Lewis representative notes, "When all costs were considered, TrackerOffice had a significantly lower overall price tag than the two other vendors we considered."
About Jackson Lewis
For over 45 years, Jackson Lewis has placed a high premium on preventive strategies and positive solutions in the practice of workplace law. We partner with employers to devise policies and procedures promoting constructive employee relations and limiting disputes.
When complaints arise, we work with clients to take incisive action to effect solutions that minimize costs and maximize results. Whether we are counseling on legal compliance or litigating a complex case, we help our clients achieve their business goals and promote an issue-free work environment.
With offices in major cities throughout the U.S., Jackson Lewis combines a national perspective with an awareness of local business environments. Our clients represent a wide range of public and private businesses and non-profit institutions.
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Fowler White Boggs Banker switches to ImmigrationTracker
Fowler White Boggs Banker Replaces Web-Only Software with TrackerOffice, citing Better Client Features, Reliability, Speed and Integration with MS Outlook
San Francisco, CA—June 13, 2007—Fowler White Boggs Banker P.A., recipient of the highest rating in the most recent Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review, announced today that its immigration practice has deployed TrackerOffice, the case management system from ImmigrationTracker. For Fowler White Boggs Banker, the new system puts an end to poor Outlook® integration, incomplete workflows, and hapless technical support.
According to Fowler White Boggs Banker Attorney Jennifer Roeper, "With our last system, there was no way to pull up an Outlook® calendar or task list and see what matters we have coming due tomorrow, next week, or next month." Ms. Roeper continues, "It was impossible for us to access complete client information from a single screen. The process for clients to request new cases was manual, and they relied heavily on our staff to compile data. TrackerOffice helped us eliminate these chokepoints."
"With TrackerOffice, our users enjoy the convenience of seeing client information in Outlook calendars and tasks or in Tracker itself. We no longer perform global searches to find client correspondence. This saves us precious time," says Ms. Roeper.
"To get a client's current immigration status, expiration dates, open cases, and to-do lists, our old system forced us into lengthy navigations. TrackerOffice gives us one persistent screen to access everything about a particular client. It's easy to use and this cuts down on our case handling time," recounts Ms. Roeper.
Regarding technical support, Ms. Roeper mentions, "Our last vendor's support staff knew little about immigration. We had to open a trouble ticket for every issue, and this made the service more impersonal. The Tracker support team is not only technically savvy; they're conversant enough in immigration to understand the needs of our team and our clients. This individual attention makes our support calls faster and more pleasant."
"Empowering Fowler White Boggs Banker to grow its case handling capacity through efficiency and superior service enables them to extend the value chain to their clients and attract new ones," says Javier Rey, VP of Sales for ImmigrationTracker. He continues, "ImmigrationTracker is dedicated to supporting the pace-setting immigration practice of Fowler White Boggs Banker."
About Fowler White Boggs Banker
Fowler White Boggs Banker is one of Florida’s oldest and largest law firms serving clients locally, statewide, nationally and internationally from nine offices throughout Florida in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Fort Myers, Tallahassee, Orlando, Naples, Bonita Springs, Jacksonville and Fort Lauderdale. For more information, visit www.fowlerwhite.com.
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ImmigrationTracker Pays for Itself in a Single Week
Immigration Software Company Pays for Itself in a Single Week by Turning a Challenge into a Boon for Its Customers: How ImmigrationTracker Responded to the June 2007 Visa Bulletin
San Francisco, CA—June 12, 2007—The US State Department's Visa Bulletin for June 2007 surprised everyone by jumping up to two years forward in the "priority dates" for employment-based immigration preference categories. Many foreign nationals who thought they wouldn't be able to file their "AOS" (Adjustment of Status, or final green card) cases suddenly had to be identified, notified and prepared for filing cases promptly, since there's never a guarantee that the priority dates won't slip backwards a month later.
In response, the software company ImmigrationTracker ("Tracker") refined its existing Priority Date Report into an "AOS-Ready Report" that lets all firms identify every client in the database whose priority date now makes them eligible to file for AOS or immigrant visas. The report uses smart algorithms and alternative data to capture even those clients whose priority dates or birth countries may not have been entered in the database. As such, the report catches eligible clients who might otherwise be overlooked. The typical law firm fees for an AOS case well exceed Tracker's annual cost per licensee. "Given our firm's strong history of employment-based clients, we couldn't afford to miss a beat. With just one case we wouldn't have known about or filed in time, Tracker just paid for itself," noted Tracker customer George Askt of the New York firm Askt & Askt.
Along with the report, Tracker actually emailed all customers several pages of donated attorney work product, including the draft email template law firms could send clients (by mail merge, using the emails, client names and dates already in the database) to notify them of the opportunity and to help them file their cases in time. The free package included memos on required vaccinations, document translations, photos, AOS checklist and the Tracker questionnaire that lets clients enter their AOS-related data securely online. Javier Rey, Tracker's VP of Sales and Business Development, explained, "While this may be above and beyond what customers expect from a technology provider, empowering our customers with these resources lets them turn a major challenge like this one into a great opportunity for their firms' growth and their clients' objectives."
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Gonzalez & Harris selects Tracker for Immigration practice management
Winner of multiple legal awards, Josie Gonzalez, picks award-winning software
San Francisco, CA—June 21, 2006—ImmigrationTracker ("Tracker"), the immigration management system most chosen by Fortune 1000 companies, announced today that Gonzalez & Harris, a Los Angeles-based firm has selected Tracker to provide its attorneys with an advanced immigration management system to collaboratively share cases and best practices. The firm has offered full-service immigration legal assistance since 1978.
Gonzalez & Harris represents a diverse clientele, including financial and mortgage lending companies, audio engineering firms, hospitals and biomedical research facilities, non-profit and religious organizations, universities, restaurant and hospitality providers, information technology companies, telecommunications developers, and high-tech manufacturers. The ImmigrationTracker platform will provide the firm with a centralized system from which lawyers can access and share internal documents, including emails and attachments, all stored in case-centric electronic files.
"After a thorough evaluation of the leading case management vendors in the legal market, we selected Tracker because of its reputation, strong track record and the proven capabilities of its case management software," said Josie Gonzalez, Founder & CEO, Gonzalez & Harris. "ImmigrationTracker Enterprise will provide our firm with a solid platform and its user-friendly capabilities will improve how our lawyers access, share, manage and track client information, so that they can work more effectively with our clients.
"Gonzalez & Harris is the employer's immigration advocate. Our legal team is always available to help our customers understand and comply with the myriad of agency regulations while satisfying the company's labor demands, it was important for us to partner with a company that understands and is devoted to the ever-changing immigration landscape, not just a technology vendor."
"ImmigrationTracker provides the most flexible platform for law firms with complex case management requirements," said Javier Rey, Director of Sales for ImmigrationTracker. "Our focus is on reliability and performance, modeling technology after the way our law firm partners actually work, so we can continually bring solution innovations to market."
About Gonzalez & Harris
Gonzalez & Harris is a Los Angeles-based firm has offered full-service immigration legal assistance since 1978. The firm works seamlessly with Human Resources in order to take the worry and hassle out of coping with the newly reorganized Department of Homeland Security's complex and confusing regulations and procedures. The firm's management reports, I-9 compliance training, and prompt and efficient preparation of immigration applications facilitate the timely and lawful hiring of essential foreign national personnel.
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Banta Immigration Law Switches Back to ImmigrationTracker
Leading Atlanta business immigration group selects Tracker for its superior technology and customer support
San Francisco, CA—June 14, 2006—ImmigrationTracker ("Tracker"), the immigration management system most chosen by Fortune 1000 companies, announced today that Atlanta-based Banta Immigration Law has replaced INSZoom® with ImmigrationTracker. The firm initially used Tracker, but switched to INSZoom in September 2004, expecting more flexibility in adapting the software. However, most legal staff are not trained to develop or use build-it-yourself software, and the staff preferred using Tracker, which is pre-configured by legal experts, yet easy to customize. The user-friendly nature of Tracker, along with the training and support offered by the company, has spurred widespread use.
"We concluded that ImmigrationTracker is the best fit for a firm like ours, which deals primarily with large worldwide clients," said Robert Banta, President of Banta Immigration Law. "My team has found ImmigrationTracker to be the most intuitive and readily usable, clearly designed by people who understand both our legal field and cutting-edge technology."
Tracker's time-tested data import functions were critical to Banta's firm, which could then quickly become operational without the cost of IT support. "The import and report building functions of Tracker are particularly impressive. Now, we can import data and build reports ourselves," said Banta.
"Banta Immigration Law is a forward-thinking firm that serves a prestigious, global client base. As such, the firm appreciates the value of Tracker's focus on our customers' needs, from accurate detail to uncompromising customer care. We are thrilled with the opportunity to once again provide our services to their firm," said Javier Rey, head of sales for ImmigrationTracker. "The more people learn about other options, the more positive feedback we get." As another INSZoom® convert Rita Kushner of Bernie Wolfsdorf & Associates observed: "We tried the rest. Tracker's the best."
About Banta Immigration Law
As Atlanta's largest law firm devoted exclusively to the practice of immigration and nationality law, Banta Immigration Law represents business and corporate clients in all matters of employment-based immigration. The firm serves as trusted advisors in all practice areas of immigration law. By focusing all of its resources on immigration, Banta Immigration Law anticipates the needs of corporate clients, and seamlessly adapts services and support to the client's evolving business. Adhering to the fundamental yet critical business philosophy of total customer satisfaction, Banta Immigration Law maintains long-term relationships with many of the Fortune 500, as well as small to mid-size businesses.
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Flynn & Clark, P.C. selects Tracker for Immigration practice management
Past AILA President, Fellow of the Academy of Business Immigration Lawyers and Founding member of IMMLAW chooses Tracker
San Francisco, CA—March 1, 2006—Software maker ImmigrationTracker announced today that it has been chosen by another Past President of the AILA (American Immigration Lawyers Association), bringing the total to 12 Past Presidents—11 more than any competing software program. Steve Clark is Managing Partner of Flynn & Clark, P.C., Cambridge, MA. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Business Immigration Lawyers (ABIL) and a founding member of IMMLAW. His firm has now completed deployment of ImmigrationTracker's Enterprise solution.
"Our criteria for choosing a solution were simple: I wanted the data to reside in my office and my staff wanted an integrated system that was powerful but simple. The fact that many of my most respected colleagues use Tracker made the decision a no-brainer" said Managing Attorney, Steve Clark. Listed under the immigration heading as one of "The Best Lawyers in America" since its inception, Mr. Clark has authored over 50 publications on H & L visas, Labor Certification, and Employment Based Immigration.
The investment is part of an overall firm strategy to improve operational efficiency, focusing on case management and working practices. Using ImmigrationTracker Enterprise, all case data as well as correspondence is now stored in a central repository, making it easier and more cost-effective for lawyers to search, retrieve, and access cases, as well as related documents and correspondence.
"By adopting ImmigrationTracker, we will further empower our lawyers to provide more rapid and high-quality service to our clients and maintain effective control over the rising volume of content-particularly e-mail-that their work involves." Said Steve Clark. "We also think it will be welcomed by clients. The Tracker user interface will make it easier and simpler for clients to give the attorneys the information they need, all in a flexible, convenient and secure way."
Regarding ImmigrationTracker's quick deployment, Mr. Clark said: "We are very pleased with the speed and ease of implementation and the positive feedback from our legal staff. We are already reaping the benefits of ImmigrationTracker Enterprise. We have been very impressed with the quality of the ImmigrationTracker staff. Their support and training professionals are top-notch."
"In today's economy, law firms have high expectations for their IT investments. As a result, more and more firms are migrating from their older systems to the ImmigrationTracker Enterprise solution. This offers much more than case management," said Javier Rey, vice president of sales, ImmigrationTracker, Inc. "Flynn & Clark joins the long list of immigration law firms that are choosing to work with ImmigrationTracker, an innovative, profitable and reliable vendor that will continue to be in business for many years and will ensure that the customer's investments in ImmigrationTracker solutions are protected and maximized over a long and extended life."
About Flynn & Clark, P.C.
Flynn & Clark, P.C. has provided premium service to clients throughout New England and the United States for thirty years and has a national reputation in business immigration law. They counsel companies and professionals on obtaining temporary and permanent immigration status in a variety of categories. The firm also offers advice to companies during the due diligence phase of acquiring other businesses, in order to evaluate the immigration impact of the acquisition on key employees. In addition, the firm offers general practice of law services for foreign nationals and others .
Illustrious as Flynn & Clark may be in business immigration, the founding partners are also renowned for their early work in a very different sphere. As young lawyers, both men dedicated their early years of practice to helping others. They worked on behalf of coal miners in Appalachian Kentucky, where they spearheaded the movement for Black Lung compensation. (The story of Steve Clark's elbow appearing in Oscar-winning "Harlan County, USA" may not be apocryphal.) Representing miners against the coal industry and its top guns, they were remarkably successful. Their practice has evolved, but their devotion to advocacy has never wavered and still benefits their clients throughout the United States.
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Barst & Mukamal LLP selects Tracker for Immigration practice management
Global practice requires special expertise and communication tools
San Francisco, CA—December 5, 2005—ImmigrationTracker, the leading provider of integrated practice management solutions, announced today that one of the oldest and largest immigration law firms, Barst & Mukamal LLP, New York, NY, has completed deployment of ImmigrationTracker's Enterprise solution.
With the ImmigrationTracker Enterprise implementation, Barst & Mukamal is providing the entire firm with a secure and centralized practice management solution that will enable them to leverage the firm's intellectual assets and collective expertise, enhance efficiencies, and improve client relationships.
"ImmigrationTracker has the strength and depth to be able to satisfy our stringent and diverse requirements for a state-of-the-art practice management platform," said Philip Kleiner, Senior Partner, Barst & Mukamal. "We are very pleased with the implementation and the positive feedback from legal staff that are already reaping the benefits of ImmigrationTracker Enterprise."
Barst & Mukamal LLP selected Tracker after determining that it offered the best global tools, secure data management, and easy to use system. "If it is a challenge to use technology, then our employees will not be as productive. I think what the end-users like the most about ImmigrationTracker is the ease of use and just the fact that through a single interface they're able to control all of the facets and all of the steps along the way of preparing and managing our cases." said Martin Rothstein, Senior Partner in the New York office. "We selected Tracker based on our overall assessment that it is a 'best in business' immigration software solution for global case management."
"We are privileged to be in a position to provide Barst & Mukamal LLP with a robust practice management solution," said Fred Colman, President of ImmigrationTracker. "More firms are migrating from their existing systems to the ImmigrationTracker Enterprise solution, which offers much more than case management. Barst & Mukamal joins the long list of large law firms that are choosing to work with ImmigrationTracker, an innovative, profitable and reliable vendor that will continue to be in business for many years and will ensure that the customer's investments in ImmigrationTracker solutions are protected and maximized over a long and extended life."
About Barst & Mukamal LLP
Founded in 1930, Barst & Mukamal LLP is the oldest and one of the largest law firms in the United States specializing in immigration, nationality, and consular matters. Barst & Mukamal concentrates on securing nonimmigrant working visas and status, U.S. permanent residency, corporate compliance programs, citizenship, naturalization, and expatriation matters for their clients. As specialists in federal immigration law Barst & Mukamal accepts cases from any location in the United States. They also provide representation at U.S. Embassies and Consulates throughout the world. Barst & Mukamal's partners each have, on average, more than 20 years of specialized experience in immigration and related legal areas. Many of their partners and attorneys have held government office and are or have been National and Chapter officers in the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Barst & Mukamal LLP offers all their clients personal, individualized attention including personal contact with partners and attorneys.
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ImmigrationTracker Named Among Top-20 Fastest Growing Companies
Legal software company celebrates over 200% growth in past three years
San Francisco, CA—October 18, 2005—ImmigrationTracker has been named to the prestigious 2005 San Francisco Business Times List of 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies. Ranked 17th, ImmigrationTracker (PC Legal Tools, LLC) recorded 240.3% revenue increase for the period 2002 to 2004. The list, published for the past 14 years, requires a rigorous verification process and review by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Providing immigration practice management software to hundreds of law firms, corporations, health care facilities, and educational institutions, ImmigrationTracker became the leader in the category by providing comprehensive products. In addition it has been aided in development by San Francisco-based Pearl Law Group and other practice area leaders.
With the launch of TrackerGlobal slated for early 2006, ImmigrationTracker will take its practice management software to the next level. Enabling legal practioners and immigration specialists to manage both U.S. and international immigration matters, TrackerGlobal developed with the assistance of Baker & McKenzie and Ernst & Young will include Practice Guides, Directories, and Processes for immigration applications in more than 40 countries.
"We've worked hard to achieve this high level of growth," said Fred Colman, President of ImmigrationTracker. "The products we plan to launch early next year will continue to fuel our growth in the coming years."
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ImmigrationTracker acquires Aria®
Two industry pioneers unite
San Francisco, CA—October 3, 2005—ImmigrationTracker announced today that it has purchased the company that produces Aria, which was the first immigration case management software marketed. By joining forces, the first two companies to deliver immigration practice management software expect to offer continually unmatched technology solutions for law firms and companies.
Aria's creator Greg Walther joins ImmigrationTracker as Director of Product Management. As an immigration attorney, Walther began designing software in the early 1990s to serve the immigration caseloads of large companies. Both Aria and ImmigrationTracker's software are used in firms ranging from boutique immigration practices to AmLaw 100 firms, as well as Fortune 500 companies. "Joining forces with ImmigrationTracker, with whom we share the mutual vision of providing the best products and customer service, is a tremendous advantage for our customers," said Mr. Walther. "The technology assets of the newly combined company will benefit our customers immediately."
With the acquisition of Aria, ImmigrationTracker is now the only company offering both server-based and web-based immigration practice management software. "Bringing Aria into the ImmigrationTracker family solidifies our lead in providing immigration management products for law firms, corporations, educational institutions, and medical facilities," said Fred Colman, President of ImmigrationTracker. "The merger enables us to leverage our development efforts and industry knowledge well into the future."
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Baker & McKenzie LLP selects Tracker for Immigration practice management
Global practice requires special expertise and communication tools
San Francisco, CA—September 15, 2005—ImmigrationTracker announced today that the Global Migration & Executive Transfers group in the Baker & McKenzie, LLP, Washington D.C. office has chosen Tracker practice management software to meet the case management needs of their global immigration practice. The firm chose Tracker in part because it offered the best IT tools for handling immigration issues for their large multinational clients.
Baker & McKenzie, the world's largest law firm, with a global network of more than 3,200 attorneys in 38 countries selected Tracker after determining that it offered the best global tools and secure data management. Our clients have employees in virtually every country in the world," said Elizabeth Stern, Partner in the Washington , D.C. office. "We selected Tracker based on our assessment that it is a "best in business" immigration software solution for global case management. As such, Tracker allows us to leverage an excellent IT tool to streamline our global mobility services for clients."
"We are pleased that Baker & McKenzie selected Tracker to manage its Immigration practice," said Fred Colman, President of ImmigrationTracker. "Their choice of Tracker to manage the thousands of cases and challenges of their worldwide client base is further evidence of the quality systems we've developed for immigration practices and corporate HR needs."
About Baker & McKenzie LLP
Since 1949, Baker & McKenzie has provided sophisticated advice and legal services to many of the world's most dynamic and successful organizations. Baker & McKenzie has a network of over 3,200 locally qualified, internationally experienced lawyers and 5,500 other professionals and staff in 69 offices in 38 countries. Baker & McKenzie is renowned as a firm with the knowledge, experience, and resources to deliver the broad scope of quality legal services clients require to respond to both international and local needs. The firm's North American Compensation & Employment Law Practice Group, which includes the Global Migration & Executive Transfers practice area, consists of more than 400 attorneys handling labor, employment, equity compensation and benefits, and business immigration matters around the world.
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Two top Immigration firms select Tracker for practice management
Quality, increased productivity and market leadership cited as the critical decision elements
San Francisco, CA—June 15, 2005—Immigration Tracker announced today that two premier Immigration boutique practices have chosen to update their firm-wide practice management systems to help meet client demands, increase staff productivity and improve their profitability. Maggio & Kattar, P.C. (Washington, D.C.) and Siskind Susser (Memphis, TN) both chose Tracker because it offered the best overall value for their firm, fast return on investment and quality system performance.
"After a painstaking review and assessment of immigration practice management software, we were relieved to choose ImmigrationTracker," said Michael Maggio, Partner. "The software meets all of our requirements and the company offers the high level of customer service we offer our clients."
Siskind Susser, Tennessee's largest immigration firm, is well known in practice circles as a technology leader. "We constantly strive to improve the quality and efficiency of our client service," said Greg Siskind, Partner. "We evaluated every product in the market and chose Tracker because it offers superior quality and technology options. It is the true leader in the space."
"We are thrilled to welcome these two outstanding firms to the ImmigrationTracker family," said Fred Colman, President of ImmigrationTracker. "These nationally recognized firms join the thousands of Tracker users at law firms and Fortune 500 companies worldwide."
About Maggio & Kattar, PC
Maggio & Kattar, PC is a Washington, D.C.-based, full-service immigration law firm recognized internationally for its service to the global business community and its ability to solve the most difficult immigration problems. Since 1978, the firm's attorneys have been known for zealous and creative advocacy in solving complex immigration problems, including those involving highly skilled foreign workers, immigration implications of criminal convictions, waivers of inadmissibility, waivers of the two-year foreign residence requirement, and deportation defense.
About Siskind Susser
Siskind Susser is one of the largest immigration law firms in North America and its attorneys have experience handling all aspects of American, Canadian and Mexican immigration and nationality law. From our offices in the US , Canada and Mexico , we regularly represent clients throughout the world. Our lawyers provide consultations to corporations and individuals on immigration law issues and handle cases before the American, Canadian and Mexican governments.
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