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Russell Swapp
Work Department
Immigration
Position
Partner
Career
Russell Swapp is a Partner in Seyfarth Shaw LLP’s Boston office. He is the former Managing Partner of Seyfarth’ s Boston office and currently serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s global Business Immigration Group.
Russell has been on a Lean journey for the past three decades—well before it was in vogue to apply Lean principles and methodologies to law firm service delivery. Russell moved his team to Seyfarth in 2002 as he viewed Seyfarth as a firm that embraced attorneys who we looking for new ways to engage with their clients. Since the day he arrived at Seyfarth, Russell has evangelized the firm’s pioneering application of Lean Six Sigma in legal service delivery, and has been a leading voice in the development of Seyfarth’s award-winning client service model. Russell advises his clients—which range from small, venture-backed technology start-ups to many of the largest academic institutions, multinational corporations, and medical and financial institutions in the world —as they navigate the challenges of moving their talent around the globe.
Russell currently serves on the Immigration Subcommittee of the US Chamber of Commerce. He is the former chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Committee on Immigration, and the US Department of Labor Liaison Chair for the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He is also a member of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, and is a frequent lecturer at professional association conferences and colleges and universities throughout New England.
Memberships
Immigration Subcommittee of the US Chamber of Commerce
NAFSA: Association of International Educators
US Department of Labor Liaison Chair for the American Immigration Lawyers Association
Education
JD, University of New Hampshire, Franklin Pierce School of Law
BA, Bates College
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Labor and employment > Immigration
(Leading lawyers)Seyfarth Shaw LLP fields a fully integrated immigration team handling all business immigration matters at the intersection of employment law. Senior partners Russell Swapp and James King jointly manage the team out of Boston and Atlanta, respectively and are key contacts for high-volume, complex immigration legal issues for some of the largest companies in the US. As former director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division, Washington DC-based Leon Rodriguez is well-positioned to advise clients in immigration regulatory and policy development, and is a sought-after counsel to clients on strategic business decisions concerning immigration and global mobility. Gabriel Mozes is an experienced business immigration advisor with specialized expertise in PERM program counselling, H-1B third-party placement and right to control issues, as well as high-volume TN cross-border work. For foreign nationals’ immigration matters Sharon Cook is the key contact in Atlanta. With Dawn Lurie, also in DC, recommended for her extensive expertise in immigration compliance and EB-5 investment strategy, Michelle Gergerian assists in global mobility matters out of the Boston office. Jacob Cherry joined the New York office from Ogletree Deakins in April 2022. Angelo Paparelli left the firm in September 2023.