A former junior associate at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy has been suspended from practice for six months after not filing numerous H-1B visa applications and lying within Fragomen about it, in a disciplinary matter in which the court cited her youth and inexperience as a key mitigating factor.
“While [the former associate’s] lack of diligence and deception involving the H-1B visa applications is troubling, her misconduct was relatively short lived (one month); as a junior associate, she inherited the responsibility of the 30 filings once a senior associate left the firm; she took full responsibility for her misconduct, expressed remorse, and her compelling character evidence describes her misconduct as aberrational,” wrote the Appellate Division, First Department court in suspending attorney Sara Alpert.
