ANDREA GODFREAD-BROWN

ANDREA GODFREAD-BROWN has joined the Harris Beach office in Syracuse after more than 10 years in private practice and another seven years as an in-house immigration counsel at Syracuse University. She is joining an immigration law team that provides legal guidance to organizations around the state in hiring, transferring, and retaining non-U.S. talent. Godfread-Brown regularly handles J waivers, H-1Bs, O-1s and EB Permanent Resident petitions for many industries. She also handles employment-based Green Card work for health care, IT consulting, and engineering firm clients, and assists small and start-up tech and engineering companies in sponsoring employees for H-1B and EB-1/EB-2 Green Cards. In recent years, she has specialized in representing hospitals and medical practice groups when they hire foreign-trained nurses, physicians, physician assistants, and other allied-health professionals. Godfread-Brown earned her law degree from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.