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PERM law firm, #27 of 5,571 by cases
Dentons Cohen & Grigsby P.C.
- Biggest client
- Wipro Limited · 53% of its cases
- Main job
- Software Developers · 35% of its cases
- Filed from
- Pennsylvania · The address on its filings
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Cases
1,386
#27 of 5,571
Certified
1,080
178 denied
Approval
85.9%
field 96.8%
Median wage
$109,283
offered, per year
Median days
493
24 slower 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
- Wipro Limited 739 filings · 73.7% approved
- ANSYS, Inc. 80 filings · 100.0% approved
- Bayer U.S. LLC 51 filings · 100.0% approved
- The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. 40 filings · 100.0% approved
- University of Pittsburgh 27 filings
- Wipro VLSI Design Services, LLC 25 filings
How this is counted
The employers named on the most applications from this firm. 962 of 1,386 filings, 69% of the total.
What the jobs are
SOC 15-1252.00 · 481 filings, 35% of everything they file · 100.0% approved
- Lead Software Engineer Multiple Openings 15-1132126
- Computer Systems Analysts 15-1211.00115
- Project Management Specialists 13-1082.0069
- Computer Consultant Multiple Openings 15-112138
- Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 17-2072.0020
How this is counted
These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 849 of 1,386 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
- New Jersey 758
- Pennsylvania 316
- California 56
- Texas 31
- Missouri 30
- New York 22
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 1,213 of 1,386 filings.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 584 cases
The Star-Ledger
- 193 cases
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- 39 cases
San Francisco Chronicle
- 21 cases
The Oregonian
- 16 cases
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- 16 cases
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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
- 1,027 cases
Job search websites
- 988 cases
The employer's website
- 938 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers
- 55 cases
Campus placement offices
- 39 cases
Employee referral programs
- 39 cases
Radio or TV ads
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
- 0.0%
Under 30 days
- 0.0%
30 to 59 days
- 4.5%
60 to 89 days
- 10%
90 to 119 days
- 67%
120 to 149 days
- 18%
150 to 180 days
- 0.0%
Over 180 days
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.
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 Dentons Cohen & Grigsby P.C., under 16 spellings of its name.
H-1B LCAs
7,475 LCAs filed for clients, 96% certified
Decided from January 2020 to June 2026.
The employers it filed the most for
Prevailing wage requests
858 wage requests
Decided from October 2023 to June 2026.
The employers it filed the most for
Against other firms
Where it sits among 5,571 firms. The full ranking sorts every column.
Approval rate
85.9%ahead of 5%
Median days to decision
493 daysahead of 5%
Each bar counts firms at that value. More
Against the firms ranked nearest
The 86 firms ranked nearest filed between 507 and 48,351 cases.
- Their median wait
- 464 days
- This one
- 493 days
This one sits 29 days behind 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 27 of 5,571 by volume: 26 filed at least as many cases, and 5,544 filed no more.
- Just above
- Wolfsdorf Rosenthal LLP 1,456 cases
- Just below
- Greenberg Traurig, LLP 1,378 cases
Other Pennsylvania firms at this volume
Practices filing from Pennsylvania at a similar rate, taken from the ranks nearest this one. More
Practices filing from Pennsylvania 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.
- #24 · PA Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP 1,663 cases · 6 denied
- #78 · PA Landau, Hess, Simon, Choi & Doebley 552 cases · 8 denied
- #115 · PA Law Offices of Kendra S. Kembel, Esq. 368 cases · 3 denied
- #121 · PA Green and Spiegel, LLC 343 cases · 3 denied
- #122 · PA Rudnick Immigration Group P.C. 334 cases · 1 denied
- #258 · PA Kranyak Attorneys, P.C. 178 cases · 2 denied
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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. 2 other spellings of this name were folded into this page and their cases are counted here. The 4 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 #27 counts this page's cases only.
- Dentons Davis Brown PC 165 filings
- Dentons Durham Jones Pinegar P.C. 109 filings
- Dentons US LLP 59 filings
- Dentons Bingham Greenebaum LLP 6 filings
339 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, 481 of 1,386. 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 1,386 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 85.9%. 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 1,258 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.