BUFFALO, NEW YORK – Lippes Mathias is pleased to announce that Andrew M. Wilson, partner, and member of the firm’s diversity committee, has joined the Empire State Legal Diversity Career Fair Planning Committee.

Andrew serves as a co-leader of Lippes Mathias’ immigration practice group and has been listed in Best Lawyers in America for immigration law, the International Who’s Who for corporate immigration law, the International Who’s Who of business lawyers and New York Super Lawyers—Upstate. He has been named Buffalo Immigration Law “Lawyer of the Year” by Best Lawyers in 2013, 2018 and 2021. He currently serves as an AILA Local CBP Liaison and has also been active in SHRM as a Panel Member on its Global Special Expertise Panel and Corporate Social Responsibility Special Expertise Panel. Rather than taking a transactional approach, Andrew focuses on building long-lasting relationships with clients as a trusted advisor. He represents companies, major league sports teams and individuals in all areas of immigration law.

About the Empire State Legal Diversity Career Fair

The Bar Association of Erie County, SUNY UB School of Law, and the Minority Bar Association of WNY are teaming up to launch Buffalo’s first legal diversity career fair on the UB Center for Tomorrow on August 12, 2022, from 8:00am-5:00pm to facilitate the diversification of our profession. This career fair is for law students, JDs, and licensed attorneys. It is open to all applicants, with the goal of increasing representation of people from diverse racial, religious, ability, gender, and sexual orientation backgrounds.

Lippes Mathias is a full-service law firm with more than 135 attorneys serving clients regionally, nationally, and internationally. With offices in Buffalo, Albany, Rochester, Long Island, and New York, N.Y.; Greater Toronto Area; Chicago, Ill.; Jacksonville, Fla.; San Antonio, T.X.; and Washington, D.C., the firm represents publicly and privately-owned companies, private equity and venture capital firms, real estate developers, financial institutions, municipalities, governmental entities, and individuals.