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Australia to Send Us Its Lawyers

By Jeralyn, Section Law Related
Posted on Sun May 15, 2005 at 11:13:35 PM EST
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Our immigration-phobic Congress passed a law last week exempting Australian professionals from competition over H-1B visas. It created a new class of visa just for them, called an E-3 visa, and authorized 10,500 of them.

So, will we get their tired or their poor? How about their skilled laborers? Guess again.

We're getting their lawyers.

The new program, widely regarded as a reward for Australia's support of President Bush's policies, opens the door to a vast expansion of the number of Australians working in the United States, only 900 of whom received H-1B visas last year.

Law, banking and accounting are the top industries for Australians in the United States, she said. Indeed, even with the current limits, Australians are already frequent hires at major U.S. law firms like Shearman & Sterling; Weil, Gotshal & Manges; White & Case and others, who now overcome the short supply of top U.S. associates by hiring the cream of the crop overseas rather than settling for second-best at home. (emphasis supplied.)

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    • Australia to Send Us Its Lawyers | 8 comments (8 topical)
    Re: Australia to Send Us Its Lawyers (none / 0) (#1)
    by Wile ECoyote on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:05 PM EST
    I beleive you mean illegal immigration phobic congress.

    Re: Australia to Send Us Its Lawyers (none / 0) (#2)
    by roger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:05 PM EST
    Let the big firms hire their "top school" grads. I have litigated against these people several times, they tend to be idiots

    Re: Australia to Send Us Its Lawyers (none / 0) (#3)
    by DawesFred60 on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:05 PM EST
    its time for open war...can i get a lawyer may need one in prison, what a joke..help!

    Re: Australia to Send Us Its Lawyers (none / 0) (#5)
    by Quaker in a Basement on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:05 PM EST
    And we're sending what in return? Jackrabbits?

    Re: Australia to Send Us Its Lawyers (none / 0) (#4)
    by SeeEmDee on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:07 PM EST
    Lawyers. Lawyers? What do we need Australian lawyers for?

    Re: Australia to Send Us Its Lawyers (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:07 PM EST
    *singing* Send Lawyers, guns and money.... ..er... perhaps not the guns.

    Re: Australia to Send Us Its Lawyers (none / 0) (#8)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:08 PM EST
    The reasoning, as usual, is amazingly clever -- import lawyers, and then if they don't do what you want, you can threaten to deport them, or just deport them (cancel their exception). Next, they need to figure out how to import judges and how to export prisoners. Thought Fed pen was bad? Just wait when the foreign-represented defendant loses, and is incarcerated in the Outback. History draws a circle, and hangs itself in despair.

    Re: Australia to Send Us Its Lawyers (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:24 PM EST
    What now matey, never heard of a "kangroo court"? It will catch on over there like a Wallaby in heat. No need for juries and judges, just your mate AKA lawyer and wamo you begin serving your time, kind of cuts out all the middle blokes. And, all this Dingo crap about Due process, well "Dingo it". Mr. Orwell has our shuttle arrived yet? In seriousness, I quote a Dr. ML King think alike, me "justice founded on lies is no justice at all".

    Australia to Send Us Its Lawyers | 8 comments (8 topical)