David W. Gearhart

Lewis Rice’s Immigration Practice Group is committed to meeting each client’s dynamic and unique needs. We strive to achieve creative solutions for our clients while minimizing the inconvenience and delay that are often thought to be associated with immigration filings. We are not an immigration “shop” that churns our thousands of filings with no individualized thought or attention. Rather, we take the time to understand each client’s needs, which allows us to achieve optimal results. As a testament to the excellent level of service we provide, Global Law Experts named Lewis Rice “Immigration Law Firm of the Year” in Missouri for 2013.

We offer a wide range of legal services to businesses and individuals alike. Attorneys in this Practice Group work with each client’s specific needs, to prepare petitions and applications for a broad range of immigrant and non-immigrant statuses.

Our corporate clients include businesses of all sizes and from a range of industries, including multinational companies (with foreign affiliates), hospitals, medical practices, institutions of higher education, public school districts and private schools, manufacturing entities, engineering companies, startups, IT companies, staffing companies, religious organizations, and other non-profits, to name a few. Likewise, we have provided thoughtful, measured, and specialized advice to foreign nationals and their families as they explore and secure temporary or permanent status for eligible family members in the United States. Additionally, we regularly counsel permanent residents as they apply for citizenship.

With more than 150 lawyers practicing in all of the major legal practice areas, Lewis Rice is a leading regional law firm in the Midwest, serving clients coast-to-coast.

Founded in 1909, Lewis Rice is proud to have served its communities for more than a century. We enjoy a strong historical foundation and a reputation for excellence, as well as the size and resources to serve the demanding and dynamic legal needs of today’s business community.

Our fiscal success is not dependent upon any individual client or industry concentration. We serve as counsel to a broad range of local, regional, and national businesses as well as individuals. Our clients include financial institutions, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, real estate developers, insurance companies, health care providers, publishers and broadcasters, municipalities, and service and professional firms, among others. We maintain a complementary set of practice groups to serve the diverse needs of our clients.

Our attorneys come from diverse educational, social, economic, and cultural backgrounds. Our lawyers are graduates of more than 30 law schools and more than 70 colleges and universities. We believe that this diversity is one of our core strengths, bringing a broad variety of perspectives and approaches to our clients’ diverse and dynamic legal needs.