Sarah Lea Tobocman

Florida

Gunster
Brickell World Plaza
600 Brickell Ave., Suite 3500
Miami, FL 33131

Tel: (305) 376-6065

Email: stobocman@gunster.com
Web: www.gunster.com

Sarah Lea Tobocman is a shareholder and leads Gunster’s Immigration practice. She is a member of the firm’s Women’s Leadership Forum. She has been practicing business immigration law since 1983, and has led Gunster’s Immigration practice since 1999.

Sarah has over 30 years of experience working with corporate immigration clients. She is a former chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association South Florida Chapter, and a former co-chair of the Immigration Committee of the International Law Section of the Florida Bar.

Sarah maintains longstanding international, national and Florida based client relationships and represents public and private companies across a wide range of business sectors, including financial management and banking, health care, technology, hospitality, construction, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals. Sarah advises businesses in employment based nonimmigrant and immigrant visa petition planning, strategy, preparation and filing for executives, managers, investors, professionals, aliens of extraordinary ability and skilled workers.

With a consistent focus on compliance issues, she is actively involved in helping business clients maintain a legal workforce, including employment eligibility verification and H-1B Labor Condition Application compliance document preparation, file reviews, trainings, customized policies and counsel regarding best practice compliance programs. Immigration related merger and acquisition due diligence is also provided. In addition, Sarah facilitates global personnel transfers through active participation in highly regarded international networks of immigration counsel.

Sarah partners with clients to develop and implement unique, comprehensive immigration strategies for complex multi-faceted business situations. Her commitment to excellence spans industry, operations, corporate culture and specific client business objectives. She carefully analyzes and, in partnership with her clients, devises internal solutions that are successfully executed. Sarah is dedicated to client engagement, quality and responsiveness.

Having lived and studied in Latin America, she is fluent in Spanish and has a working knowledge of Portuguese.

Gunster’s International law team strives to deliver effective legal solutions that leverage firmwide competencies. Our goal is to continuously develop a comprehensive understanding of the international environment. Our attorneys have extensive experience in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia, and are fluent in more than 10 languages. Our international legal work is as diverse as the sectors of the Florida economy and the many businesses that come to Florida to take advantage of international markets.

Gunster is dedicated to developing important practices that serve our international business law clientele. This experience includes banking and financial services, distribution chains, technology, resort development, health care, immigration and business litigation, including government investigations, asset recovery and international arbitration.

Gunster continues to cultivate a worldwide network of relationships that are important to the execution of client strategies. Our firm’s objective is to expand relationships throughout the United States, extending to federal, state and municipal governments; other nations’ diplomats and consulates; trade commissions; economic development entities; and binational chambers of commerce. Outside the U.S., our attorneys are focused on interfacing with U.S. consular officers and diplomats and the governments of other nations, as well as seek to develop a network of international contacts and professionals.

Gunster, Florida’s law firm for business, provides full-service legal counsel to leading organizations and individuals from its 13 offices statewide. Established in 1925, the firm has expanded, diversified and evolved, but always with a singular focus: Florida and its clients’ stake in it.

A magnet for business-savvy attorneys who embrace collaboration for the greatest advantage of clients, Gunster’s growth has not been at the expense of personalized service but because of it. The firm serves clients from its offices in Boca Raton Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Palm Beach, Stuart, Tallahassee, Tampa, The Florida Keys, Vero Beach, Winter Park, and its headquarters in West Palm Beach.

With nearly 200 attorneys and 200 committed support staff, Gunster is ranked among the National Law Journal’s list of the 500 largest law firms and has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Diverse Law Firms by Law360.