Hats off to the legal wranglers of the capaciously complex beast that is immigration law. The practice area features land mines of law, rules, forms and filings. If anything demanded a techno-fix or two to help streamline processes, immigration practice was it.
Julie Pearl owns the quintessential URL—immigrationlaw.com—for her small but mighty 12-attorney, four-partner San Francisco-based Pearl Law Group. Not every firm website’s “About Us” page boasts a separate menu tab, “Technology” to brag about the firm’s own inventions. That’s your first clue geeky lawyers rule here.
When Pearl co-founded her law firm nearly 20 years ago with Alan Nelson, former head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, (now the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services), the office’s tech cred and mission began to take off.
