#489 30 Years of Referrals: Building a Law Firm with Jeff Goldman, Esq.

On this episode of the Immigration Lawyer's Toolbox Podcast, host John Khosravi sits down with Jeff Goldman, Esq., founder of Goldman & Partners Immigration and co-founder of Build Talent Labs, for a candid look at how a "serendipitous" career turn into immigration law became a 30+ year, 32-person firm built almost entirely on referrals from the client who talked him into immigration law after a real estate closing, to the EB-1A case for an MIT researcher that opened the door to a decade of extraordinary-ability petitions, to how he set (and steadily raised) his fees at Testa, Hurwitz & Israel and beyond. Jeff also breaks down his current work at Build Talent Labs, the cap-exempt H-1B, J-1, and O-1 agent sponsorship model he co-founded with his daughter Danielle, his eight years as immigration advisor to the Governor of Massachusetts, and what it's really like working with CBP at Logan Airport, including a firsthand story of getting a client released after 48 hours in secondary inspection.

Connect with Jeff Goldman, Esq.:

🔗 Goldman & Partners Immigration

🔗 Build Talent Labs

🔗 LinkedIn: Jeff Goldman

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Timestamps

00:00 – Opening

00:33 – Intro 03:42 – Welcome, Jeff Goldman

03:45 – Jeff's background: growing up near Boston

04:06 – Deciding to go to law school (the LSAT "dare")

05:20 – The client who talked Jeff into immigration law