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Sam S. Rosen leads the Corporate, Business, Intellectual Property, Internet Law and Litigation Practices at RLG.   Mr. Rosen has an all-encompassing legal and business experience as an attorney in New York City law firms, private practice, and as General Counsel to multi-million dollar Internet corporations, preceded by a senior accounting and auditing positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers.  Mr. Rosen has published numerous legal articles about corporations, LLCs, and Internet issues, and is a Winner of the 1999 ASCAP Award in Copyright Law. 

Mr. Rosen practices various business matters, including:

¨ Negotiating business transactions and drafting related contracts and legal documentation

¨ Forming and overseeing Corporations and LLCs:

· Purchase and Sale of Corporate Stock and Membership Interests

· Operating Agreements

· Employment and Consultancy Agreements

· Technology and Licensing Agreements

· NDAs and Corporate Due Diligence 

· Corporate compliance

¨ Representing Music, Film, and Theater companies, artists, and professionals

¨ Internet, websites, and domain name issues:

· Terms and Conditions

· Privacy Policies

· Protecting online presence and interests (ICAAN; cybersquatting; etc.)

¨ Analyzing international tax situations

¨ Registering and litigating trademarks and copyrights

¨ Commercial litigation, arbitration, and mediation


Bar admissions:
  New York; New Jersey; U.S. District Court for the Southern District of NY; U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey; Supreme Court of the United States. 


Education:
  JD cum laude, New York Law School (Journal of International and Comparative Law); BBA Cum Laude in Accounting, Hofstra University. 


Membership:
New York State Bar Association.  American Bar Association Advisory Panel.  Lifetime Member, Beta Gamma Sigma, the National Honor Society in Business and Commerce; inducted 1992. 

Email Sam at
Sam@RosenLawGroup.com

Melissa Werger Rosen leads the Immigration and Citizenship practice at RLG.  Ms. Werger Rosen practices exclusively in the field of immigration and nationality law.

Ms. Werger Rosen specializes in all areas of immigration and represents clients in a diverse array of immigration matters, including:

¨ Family-based ‘green card’ petitions

¨ Employment-based non-immigrant visas, including:

· H-1B professional workers

· L-1 intracompany transferees

· O-1 individuals of extraordinary ability in science, the arts and education

· E-1/E-2 Treaty Traders and Investors

· J-1 trainees/interns 

¨ Employment-based permanent residence via PERM labor certification

¨ Permanent Residence for Individuals of Extraordinary Ability  (EB1)

¨ Permanent Residence for Multinational Managers and Executives

¨ Permanent Residence for Outstanding Researchers and Professors

¨ National Interest Waivers

¨ International Adoption

¨ Citizenship

¨ VAWA and Battered Spouse Waivers

¨ Diversity Visa Lottery winners

Ms. Werger Rosen began her career in the field of immigration in 1987, working with Central American asylum seekers and at Harvard Law School on a study of the political asylum system in the U.S.   Following law school graduation in 1992, Ms. Werger Rosen clerked for Justice Denise Johnson of the Vermont Supreme Court.  In 1995, Ms. Werger Rosen became one of two immigration staff attorneys at a nonprofit Legal Services Fund which served the 85,000+ members of a large maintenance workers union in downtown Manhattan.  In 1998 she was made Supervising Attorney of the Fund’s nascent Immigration Unit, and as such she grew the department to a staff of 13, and was personally responsible for supervision of all 2,500+ immigration cases open in the Unit at any given time.  In June of 2006, Ms. Werger Rosen left the Fund to go into private practice.

Ms. Werger Rosen also worked in the field of Latin American human rights both before and during law school.  In 1990 she worked with the Chief Prosecutor for the Federal Appeals Court of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the prosecution of an ex-general who had been the military commander of Buenos Aires province during Argentina’s ‘dirty war’.  In 1991 she was awarded a fellowship from the Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos in San Jose, Costa Rica, to participate in its Ninth Interdisciplinary Seminar on Human Rights.  Ms. Werger Rosen is fluent in Spanish. 

Bar admissions:  New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts.

Education:  JD cum laude, Boston College Law School; Recipient White Inker & Aronson Award for Community and Public Service.  B.A. cum laude, Tufts University. 

Membership: American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).

Email Melissa at
Melissa@RosenLawGroup.com

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(914) 747-6776

Sam S. Rosen, Esq. Managing Partner
Sam@RosenLawGroup.com
(212) 605-0303

Melissa Werger Rosen Esq.
Partner
Melissa@RosenLawGroup.com
(914) 747-6776