Lauren Twist serves as Counsel for Grossman, Young and Hammond, where she assists clients in a variety of industries with nonimmigrant visa matters and permanent residency. Lauren partners with clients to provide strategic and proactive counsel on a range of nonimmigrant visas, including H-1B specialty occupation professionals, L-1 intracompany transferees, B-1, E-3, F-1, O-1, P and TN visas. In addition, she provides expertise on permanent residency matters, such as EB-1s, National Interest Waivers, and the PERM Labor Certification process. Lauren has over fourteen years of experience in immigration representing employers and foreign nationals in small, mid-size, and large multinational corporations in sectors such as cloud computing, consumer electronics, semiconductors, electronic design automation, social media, E-commerce, energy, IT consulting, athletics performance, and social science research.
Lauren has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, listed in the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America in 2023 and 2024. She is also the recipient of the Pro Bono Publico Award in 2018 by Casa Cornelia Law Center for outstanding contributions to pro bono immigration work. She received the Wiley M. Manuel Award for Pro Bono Legal Services in 2015 and 2016.
Prior to joining GYH, Lauren worked at the world’s largest business immigration provider in the firm’s Philadelphia, New York, San Diego, and San Francisco offices. She previously worked with a nonprofit organization though Temple University’s Immigration Clinic, where she represented immigrants applying for Convention Against Torture relief, asylum, withholding of removal, adjustment of status, consular processing and waivers for criminal convictions. She also served as a Summer Law Clerk with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Human Rights Law Division at their headquarters in Washington, DC.
Lauren has extensive experience providing pro bono immigration services. She has represented clients through Casa Cornelia, a nonprofit organization in San Diego, California, that provides legal services to indigent women and children who have been the victims of human and civil rights violations and who qualify for immigration benefits to remain in the U.S. Lauren also co-founded and co-chaired a U visa clinic in Philadelphia to help local nonprofit immigration firms prepare U visa nonimmigrant applications. Lauren’s pro bono work has also included: conducting screenings for unaccompanied minors from Central America; handling cases for asylum; serving as a French interpreter for immigrants in USCIS and asylum interviews; and participating in Citizenship Day activities to assist immigrants in applying for naturalization.
Lauren speaks English and French.