Jeffrey S. Moeller

Jeffery Moeller, Lawyer at Seeley, Savidge, Ebert & Gourash

Jeffrey S. Moeller

Partner
jmoeller@sseg-law.com
Phone: 216-566-8200

Jeffrey Moeller is both a complex civil litigator as well as a business and family immigration attorney. On the litigation side, Jeff has successfully represented clients in thousands of matters over his nearly 30-year career, in numerous state and Federal courts across the United States. He has extensive experience in products liability matters, employment litigation, construction defect suits, real estate cases, commercial disputes (including complex Uniform Commercial Code disputes) and municipal defense. Mr. Moeller regularly represents clients before a variety of appellate bodies and has dozens of reported appellate decisions.

Attorney Jeffrey Moeller also has over 20 years of immigration law experience at the highest levels, and has trained numerous lawyers in the field of immigration law. He maintains a corporate general counsel and employment/human resources practice, representing manufacturing companies, software companies and non-profit institutions, among others. Jeff understands both the technical aspects of engineering and manufacturing employees’ skill sets, and works with human resources managers every day, not just when immigration counsel is needed.

Selected Publications and Presentations by Jeffery Moeller:

Invited speaker and writer on immigration and employment topics at both national and regional bar conferences. Authored an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on a matter of national first impression at the invitation of a national immigration bar association
Authored employment law related articles for the Ohio State Bar Association
Interviewed on immigration topics by NPR, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Anchorage Daily News, and local radio
Advantages of Mediation, faculty, Akron Bar Association CLE (June 2011)
Labor/Employment CLE, faculty, topics included strategies for the dismissal of difficult employees and verification of employment eligibility (January 2008)
“Arbitration of Claims Arising out of Employment,” faculty, NBI CLE Seminar on Advanced Issues in Ohio Employment Law, Cleveland, Ohio (2004)
Transnational Movement of People in a Post-9/1 1 World, author, World Trade Center (Cleveland) Quarterly Newsletter, Cleveland, Ohio (2002)
“2001-02 Changes to Immigration Policies and their Effect on the Flow of International Trade,” speaker, Ohio Foreign Commerce Association, Cleveland, Ohio (2002)
“Alternative Routes to Employment-Based Permanent Residency; Are the Service Centers Adjudicating Petitions According to the Same Philosophy?” speaker, Northeast Ohio Federal Bar Association Immigration Conference, Cleveland, Ohio (2001)
“Update on Federal Litigation,” panel member, Northeast Ohio Federal Bar Association Immigration Conference, Cleveland, Ohio (2001)
“Habeas Corpus and Other Remedies in Federal Court,” panel member, American Immigration Lawyers’ Association National Conference, Chicago, Illinois, (2000)

Jeff has extensive experience in counseling and advising clients across the U.S. and internationally on the following sorts of immigration matters, among others:

PERM labor certifications, green card applications (I-140 and I-485), employment authorizations (I-765), advance parole applications (I-131), and H-1B applications for universities, non-profit entities, hospitals, international manufacturers, and businesses of all sizes — small, medium and large
L-1A, L-1B, and O-1 temporary work visas
EB-1, EB-2, and multinational executive or manager green cards
Foreign Medical Graduate J-1 waivers of foreign residency requirements
J-1 visa waivers of foreign residency requirements, based on persecution, hardship, no objection, and interested government agency requests
Extensive experience with I-130, I-751, N-600, N-600K, fiancé visas, and other family-based petitions, including consular post representation
Naturalization/citizenship applications (N-400), including interview preparation
H-4 dependent applications (I-539) and employment authorizations (I-765)
Corporate formation and subsidiary formation with a view toward qualifying business owners or key technical personnel for appropriate visa categories
Start-to-finish E-visa business plans for large and small business owners and investors, including entity selection, formation, business plan drafting and support, and visa applications
Extensive experience in all types of employer-side immigration matters, including I-9, hiring practices investigations and troubleshooting visa difficulties for critical foreign employees
Successful and creative problem solving with respect to the immigration issues affecting scientific researchers, university faculty, engineers, software developers and programmers, physicians, nurses, highly skilled but non-degreed technical personnel, entrepreneurs, religious workers, athletes and musical groups
Testimony as expert witness as to standard of care in immigration legal malpractice cases
Drafting employment agreements, personnel policies and procedures to comply with immigration laws and regulations respecting the hiring, retention and termination of employees
Representation in difficult naturalization cases, including administrative appeals and federal court challenges to citizenship denials or revocations
Analysis of potential immigration consequences of criminal proceedings, in conjunction with criminal defense counsel
Assisting with mergers and acquisitions, and related due diligence inquiries, when acquiring businesses with temporary foreign workers