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PERM law firm, #228 of 5,571 by cases

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC

Biggest client
IMC AMERICAS, INC. · 13% of its cases
Main job
Software Developers · 13% of its cases
Filed from
Tennessee · The address on its filings

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This rate is level with the field

Over 162 decided cases, this rate can't be told apart from the field in either direction.

Why

The 95% interval runs up to a 7.8% denial rate, which still covers the 3.20% the field as a whole records.

Cases

199

#228 of 5,571

Certified

156

6 denied

Approval

96.3%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$118,000

offered, per year

Median days

458

11 faster than the field

The practice

Who they file for, what the jobs are and where the work sits, from the employer, occupation and worksite on their own applications.

Who they file for

  1. IMC AMERICAS, INC. 25 filings
  2. Polar Operations LLC 19 filings
  3. Kenco Management Services LLC 15 filings
  4. Mican Technologies, Inc. 15 filings
  5. Great American Deli LLC 12 filings
  6. NISSAN NORTH AMERICA INC 8 filings
How this is counted

The employers named on the most applications from this firm. 94 of 199 filings, 47% of the total.

What the jobs are

Software Developers

SOC 15-1252.00 · 26 filings, 13% of everything they file

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 79 of 199 cases between them. The occupation on a PERM is the SOC code on the form, which is the job as DOL classifies it rather than the job title on the offer. DOL still accepts two SOC vintages, so one job can appear twice under two codes; the code is printed for exactly that reason.

Where the jobs are

  • Tennessee 73
  • Illinois 50
  • Delaware 15
  • Georgia 12
  • Texas 11
  • Alabama 9
How this is counted

The worksite state on the application, which is where the job is and not where the company is headquartered. Volume by state across everyone is on the state map. These 6 states cover 170 of 199 filings.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. Chicago Sun-Times

    37 cases

  2. Chattanooga Times Free Press

    24 cases

  3. The Tennessean

    19 cases

  4. The News Journal

    15 cases

  5. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

    10 cases

  6. Chicago Tribune

    8 cases
How this is counted

The newspaper or professional journal named for each case's two print ads, one count per paper per case, however the filer spelled it.

Additional steps it used

  1. Job search websites

    143 cases

  2. Local or ethnic newspapers

    116 cases

  3. Employee referral programs

    67 cases

  4. The employer's website

    61 cases

  5. Radio or TV ads

    37 cases

  6. Trade or professional organizations

    3 cases
How this is counted

The steps a professional job needs beyond the job order and the ads, by the number of cases that name each.

How long before filing it began

  1. Under 30 days

    0.0%

  2. 30 to 59 days

    0.6%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    36%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    19%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    22%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    22%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.0%
How this is counted

Days from the first recruitment step to the filing. 20 C.F.R. § 656.17(e) puts the job order and ads 30 to 180 days before filing.

Where every PERM employer recruits

Every program

Beyond PERM: its other work for clients

DOL names the law firm or agent on each H-1B labor condition application, prevailing wage request and H-2A, H-2B and CW-1 application it publishes. These are the ones that name Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, under 7 spellings of its name.

H-1B LCAs

1,298 LCAs filed for clients, 92% certified

Decided from October 2019 to June 2026.

The employers it filed the most for

  1. Nissan North America, Inc. 101
  2. Mican Technologies, Inc. 88
  3. GEODIS Logistics LLC 69
  4. Kenco Management Services, LLC 58
  5. IMC Americas, Inc. 53
  6. America's Collectibles Network, Inc. 43
  7. East Tennessee State University (ETSU) 28
  8. Wonder Porcelain Group, LLC 25

Prevailing wage requests

226 wage requests

Decided from October 2023 to June 2026.

The employers it filed the most for

  1. Kenco Management Services LLC 25
  2. East Tennessee State University 13
  3. Polar Operations LLC 11
  4. Wonder Porcelain Group, LLC 10
  5. Nissan North America, Inc. 10
  6. Schnellecke Logistics USA, LLC 7
  7. Reinhausen Manufacturing Inc. 7
  8. Wacker Chemical Corporation 6

H-2A, H-2B and CW-1

1 applications, 100% certified

Decided in September 2025.

The employers it filed the most for

  1. ParCou LLC 1

Against other firms

Where it sits among 5,571 firms. The full ranking sorts every column.

Position in the field 1,124 firms with 30+ decided

Approval rate

96.3%ahead of 27%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

458 daysahead of 68%

361d 1059d
Each bar counts firms at that value. More
Each bar counts firms at that value. Firms with fewer than 30 decided cases are left out of the population rather than plotted, because a rate over a handful of cases lands wherever the handful landed. The line marks this one. Approval rates pile up against 100%, so read the ties in the label rather than the position of the line.
DOL PERM disclosure files

Against the firms ranked nearest

The 120 firms ranked nearest filed between 155 and 254 cases.

Their median wait
466 days
This one
458 days

This one sits 8 days ahead of them.

Why no approval rate

A band is a slice of the volume ranking rather than a population picked for having enough decided cases, so a band rate would be solid at the top of the list and noise at the bottom, under one heading.

Where this sits in the ranking

Ranked 228 of 5,571 by volume: 227 filed at least as many cases, and 5,343 filed no more.

Just above
Law Offices of Yong Men, P.C. 199 cases
Just below
Immilink Holdings, Inc. 198 cases

Other Tennessee firms at this volume

Practices filing from Tennessee at a similar rate, taken from the ranks nearest this one. More

Practices filing from Tennessee at a similar rate, taken from the ranks nearest this one. State is the address on the filing, so a national firm appears under whichever office signed the form.

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Notes on these numbers

What this rank counts, and what it doesn't

DOL prints the name that went on the form, so one firm can appear under several. 1 other spelling of this name was folded into this page and its cases are counted here. The 5 entries below start the same way and were not merged, because the difference between them is more than a mistyped letter. Some may be the same firm; some are a different one. Rank #228 counts this page's cases only.

375 filings sit on those pages rather than this one. The methodology has the rule that decides which spellings merge.

What these numbers don't say

5 notes
The wage is the job, not the payer
Their filings are led by Software Developers, 26 of 199. The median offered wage moves almost entirely with what roles their clients file. A software developer and a poultry cutter are different numbers wherever they are filed, so this figure is not plotted against the field and no percentile is given for it: that comparison would rank occupation mix and call it pay. Wages by occupation are on the wages page.
Nothing here is waiting
All 199 of the cases on this page carry a decision date, because every row in DOL's disclosure files does, so a case still in the queue is in none of these counts. The live tracker that does see pending cases records the employer on each one and not the firm, so a firm's current queue cannot be broken out at all. Where the queue stands overall is on the processing times page.
The approval rate barely separates firms
This firm is at 96.3%. Across every firm with enough decided cases to carry a rate the median is above 99%, and hundreds have no denials at all. Placing near the top of that axis mostly means being level with the rest of it.
None of this measures the advice
It measures filings that DOL approved or denied. Whether the case was worth filing, what it cost, and how the firm handled an audit aren’t in these files.
A median over 162 decided cases
DOL works one national queue, oldest first, whoever filed the case, so this says when the firm's cases were filed at least as much as anything about the firm. Where the queue stands today is on the processing times page.

The window these figures cover: DOL's PERM disclosure files for fiscal years 2024 to 2026, through the third quarter of 2026, 373,939 decided cases. Nothing pending is counted here. How each figure is built

Filings newer than DOL's last published file can't be attributed to this firm until DOL publishes them. The live list on the case search page carries them by employer.

Case data: DOL quarterly disclosure files (flag.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly

Employers and firms: Derived from DOL's disclosure files · data through Jun 30, 2026 · rebuilt with each quarterly load

LCA disclosures: DOL quarterly LCA disclosure files (www.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly

Wage determinations: DOL quarterly PW disclosure files (www.dol.gov) · data through Jun 30, 2026 · quarterly

What each source includes

Case data: Decided PERM cases only. A case still waiting isn't in here, so counts and durations describe finished cases.

Employers and firms: Employers, law firms and occupations ranked from decided cases only.

LCA disclosures: Certified and denied H-1B labor condition applications only, with the wage offered.

Wage determinations: Decided prevailing wage requests only, with the wage DOL determined. Pending requests are absent.

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