Stern Elkind Curray & Alterman LLP is a leading corporate immigration law firm with a practice emphasis on matters relating to the employment of foreign workers-we are not only the largest immigration law firm in Denver, Colorado, but the largest group of Colorado immigration lawyers focused on immigration law between Chicago and San Francisco. We assist human resources and corporate professionals in creating and implementing immigration programs and policies. We provide immigration services to individuals and a wide variety of organizations.

 

We have substantial expertise and wide-ranging experience in all aspects of immigration law, including: Employers who hire foreign workers in Colorado and the rest of the United States; Multinational managers and executives transferred to this country by their employer; companies being investigated for employer sanctions, or that need assistance with I-9 compliance; persons who wish to make investments in a Colorado business or one in any other state; and individuals and families hoping to obtain permanent residence in the United States.

 

At Stern Elkind Curray & Alterman, we are strategic business partners with our corporate clients and provide companies with a comprehensive approach to immigration issues. With an efficient and responsive immigration process, we enhance our clients' overall productivity through our firm's systems.

 

Immigration law is central to many employers' concerns and our attorneys understand the business decisions and compliance issues that companies face when employing foreign professionals. We help owners, human resource managers, business professionals and general counsel make the personnel decisions necessary to maintain their competitive advantage in an increasingly global economy. Immigration is an area that has become increasingly important in the past few years as specialists from foreign nations become an integral part of the United States role in the global economy. With a team of dedicated professionals devoted to business immigration, Stern Elkind Curray and Alterman is big enough to have the best resources available-the latest in technology and legal services-and small enough to be flexible and responsive.

 

 

Contact: Phil Alterman
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Phil.Alterman@secalaw.com
www.secalaw.com
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Denver, CO 80246  

 

 

Throughout her vast career in the United States and France, Edith Samouillet has specialized in employee development, career transitioning and talent development. Her international background - having worked all over Europe and in the United States - has contributed to her desire to help those around her to grow and succeed in our global economy. She has been working for the past 9 years for Right Management, an outplacement organization that spans 42 countries. Her recent move to Denver from France has been a pleasant one, and it seems the United States may have gained a new, permanent expatriate.

 

HC: What is your favorite part of your work?
ES: What I love to do is coaching of course, because it is a long term engagement and you have time to work with people in depth and to help them develop the specific skills. I also like to do long term work with organizations. One of the companies I work with has grown from a very small company to a large company and I've worked with them over the years and I've been able to see people grow. What a reward it is!

 

HC: What is the biggest factor for a leader of a team to keep in mind in order to be an effective leader?
ES: The balance between results and people. We see many people with very high experience [who] aren't very comfortable in leading people and we know organizations are successful because of people. That's why we do this: because management is critical to the success of an organization. For example, we had a man who we worked with, who was a top performer in his technical area but he was very pushy and dominant and [overall] didn't know how to deal with people. Through coaching exercises, we helped him to learn that to get results from his people, he didn't need to push them down, but to look to their strengths.

 

HC: What can people do in this uncertain economy to stabilize their situation?
ES: It really depends on which area you are in. Many of the companies I work for are pharmaceutical companies that are not doing too badly right now. [In fact], one of them is developing a new product that doesn't exist anywhere else and so they are leaders in their market. [If you can] find your niche and develop it well, you've taken the first essential step.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The French-based cable car company Pomagalski, or Poma, is taking cable car transportation to new heights. Originally developed in the 1930s as a chair lift and cable car service for winter sports resorts in the French Alps, Poma has extended its services to tourism and transportation on a global scale.

 

In Beijing, Poma has begun work on capsules for the "big wheel," which will be the world's largest Ferris wheel, set to open in 2010. The wheel is composed of 48 air-conditioned capsules which will each hold up to 40 people. Not your average Ferris wheel ride, the capsules will also be used as reception rooms for business meetings, cocktail parties, weddings, and other events. Similar projects have included capsules for the London Eye Ferris wheel in London and sight-seeing cable cars in Jordan, Australia, Vietnam, and Educador, among others. In Rio de Janeiro, Poma has installed mechanical cable lifts to act as an alternative to underground transportation systems. Similar transportation systems have been built to serve Medellin in Colombia, Taipei, and Taiwan.

 

As Poma continues to reach out to markets worldwide, one of its newest endeavors is equipment renewal. Company president Jean Gauthier explains, "We don't rebuild them exactly as they were. Renewal involves fewer cars with greater capacity, needing fewer pylons, which reduces the visual impact and allows us to make our contribution to safeguarding the environment." One of Poma's latest projects is the rebuilding of the Roosevelt Island Tramway in New York. Poma hopes to improve the current tramway system while still maintaining the original structure. New features include creating a gap between cable cars to increase stability in windy conditions, and creating a new, innovative safety system. Poma's current success in the U.S. is the fruit borne from an already longexisting relationship. The detachable chair lifts found throughout winter sports resorts are so widespread that they are referred to as "Poma lifts."

 

 

In 2008, Rick Spear, president of Leitner-Poma, a Pomagalski subsidary in Grand Junction, CO, was recognized by the French-American Chamber of Commerce for his Outstanding Contribution to French-American Business.