Cynthia Lange leads the firm’s high-tech practice in the heart of Silicon Valley at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy. As the managing partner of the firm’s northern California practice, she directs the strategic representation of companies ranging from large Fortune 500 companies to small start-up companies in the firm’s e-group. She has worked with numerous companies to set up and manage worldwide immigration compliance programmes. Cynthia is a long-time adjunct professor at Southwestern University School of Law where she has taught since 1988. She also frequently lectures on corporate immigration and, as a thought leader in the industry, she has written numerous articles on business immigration law matters.
Cynthia is also the managing partner in charge of the firm’s I-9 service centre, which offers state-of-the-art electronic I-9 tools and advisory services for proper I-9 and E-Verify completion. She specialises in government investigations, audits and establishing compliance programmes for companies.
Cynthia joined Fragomen over 20 years ago, after beginning her career at the US Department of Justice as an INS trial attorney. She is a member of the American Bar Association; the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA); the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA); the Association of International Educators (NAFSA); the California Minority Counsel Program (CMCP); the Northern California Human Resources Association; the Santa Clara Bar Association and the San Francisco Bar Association. She has also been a member of the Faculty, Southwestern School of Law, since 1988.
Her publications and lectures include co-chairing, with Austin Fragomen, the Annual Practising Law Institute (PLI) Immigration Symposium. She is also a frequent speaker on business immigration topics before bar associations, international trade organisations and human resource groups, including: the PLI; the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM); AILA; Immigration Lawyers on the Web (ILW); and the American Council for International Personnel (ACIP).
Cynthia has won recognition from the following publications and affiliations: Martindale Hubbard AV Rated; Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers (2006–2013); Who’s Who Legal: Corporate Immigration (2006–2013); Best Lawyers In America (2006–2013); and Super Lawyers (2006–2014). She has also won the J Reuben Clark Law Society Pro Bono Award (2011) and the Silicon Valley Immigration Lawyer of the Year Award (2013); she has also been named among the Northern California Top Women Attorneys 2014. Her pro bono work includes serving as a member of the community service and pro bono committee for the J Reuben Clark Law Society; acting as former chair, committee member and member of the international board; board member and executive committee member, National Immigration Law Center (NILC); co-chair of the pro bono committee for the Santa Clara Valley chapter of AILA; and board member of TechAmerica Silicon Valley.
Cynthia is admitted to practise in California, the District of Columbia and New York. Court admissions include the US Supreme Court, the US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, and the US District Court, Southern District of California. She was educated at Southwestern University School of Law (JD, 1985) and Brigham Young University (BA, 1981; Phi Kapa Phi Honor Society).