Richard Herman is an immigration lawyer and founder of Richard T. Herman & Associates, LLC, a Cleveland-based immigration law firm that serves global talent & world-class companies in over 10 languages.   

For each of the last seven years, Richard has been recognized as a “Super Lawyer” by Ohio Super Lawyer magazine, a distinction reserved to the top five percent of attorneys in the State of Ohio who attained high peer recognition and professional achievement.

Along with Robert L. Smith of the Plain Dealer, Richard has authored Immigrant, Inc. --- Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Driving the New Economy (and how they will save the American worker) (John Wiley & Sons, November, 2009).  www.ImmigrantInc.com

Richard is the co-author of the High Skill Immigration Policy which has been adopted by 30 chambers of commerce in the Midwest from Chicago to Pittsburgh.  He is the co-founder of TiE-Ohio, a chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs Association based in Silicon Valley.

Richard has appeared on FOX  News (The O’Reilly Factor),  ABC’s 20/20, National Public Radio, affiliates of NBC, CBS, and ABC, and has been interviewed by numerous television and radio stations around the U.S.  He has appeared in USA Today, Forbes, BusinessWeek, Crain’s, InformationWeek, PC World, Computerworld, CIO, Journal of Corporate Recruiting, National Lawyers Weekly, Richard Florida and the Creative Class Exchange, Site Selection, Super Lawyers, and many newspapers and magazines around the U.S.

As an advisor to nationwide think tanks, chambers of commerce, governments and foundations, Richard conducts research, implements advocacy and outreach initiative to promote greater understanding of the importance that internationals play in local economic development, and the need for communities to be welcoming destination for immigrant entrepreneurs, international technology talent, and foreign direct investment. 

American-born, formerly residing in Moscow, Russia, Richard is married to Dr. Kimberly Chen, an immigrant from Taiwan, and they are raising their children to be citizens of the world. 

To learn more about Immigrant, Inc. visit this video highlighting the book's key points  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9APKoGSmok

 

Additional articles can be found at the following links:
"Throw Open the Doors,"  Editorial Board, Akron Beacon Journal, January 3, 2009

http://www.ohio.com/editorial/opinions/80525327.html

 

"Book Explores Immigrants' Role in U.S. Economy (Cleveland authors write that highly skilled foreign-born entrepreneurs bring vitality but Northeast Ohio isn't doing  enough to welcome them)" by Paula Schleis, Akron Beacon
Journal, December 28, 2009
http://www.ohio.com/business/80189722.html

 

"Skilled Immigrants:  The Stimulus We Need?"  by Neal Peirce, The Washington Post Writers Group, Chair of CitiStates, December 27, 2009
http://www.postwritersgroup.com/archives/peir091227.htm

 

Crain's Cleveland

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20100111/SUB1/301119985/1074/TOC&Profile=1074

 

 

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