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PERM law firm, #3 of 5,571 by cases

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.

Biggest client
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. · 18% of its cases
Main job
Software Developers · 35% of its cases
Filed from
Texas · The address on its filings

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Cases

10,007

#3 of 5,571

Certified

9,577

70 denied

Approval

99.3%

field 96.8%

Median wage

$138,736

offered, per year

Median days

471

2 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

  1. JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1,846 filings · 99.8% approved
  2. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 416 filings · 98.7% approved
  3. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 370 filings · 99.5% approved
  4. Atos Syntel Inc. 273 filings · 100.0% approved
  5. Caremark LLC 272 filings · 99.6% approved
  6. Charles Schwab and Company, Inc. 272 filings · 100.0% approved
How this is counted

The employers named on the most applications from this firm. 3,449 of 10,007 filings, 34% of the total.

What the jobs are

Software Developers

SOC 15-1252.00 · 3,529 filings, 35% of everything they file · 99.6% approved

How this is counted

These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 5,578 of 10,007 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

  • Texas 2,135
  • California 1,427
  • New York 974
  • North Carolina 592
  • New Jersey 519
  • Massachusetts 514
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 6,161 of 10,007 filings.

Newspapers it advertised in

  1. The New York Times

    870 cases

  2. The Dallas Morning News

    773 cases

  3. Austin American-Statesman

    549 cases

  4. The Mercury News

    481 cases

  5. San Francisco Chronicle

    391 cases

  6. The Star-Ledger

    364 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

    7,232 cases

  2. The employer's website

    6,603 cases

  3. Local or ethnic newspapers

    5,810 cases

  4. Trade or professional organizations

    1,791 cases

  5. Employee referral programs

    1,175 cases

  6. Radio or TV ads

    1,160 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

    under 0.1%

  3. 60 to 89 days

    15%

  4. 90 to 119 days

    23%

  5. 120 to 149 days

    20%

  6. 150 to 180 days

    41%

  7. Over 180 days

    0.2%
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 Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C., under 25 spellings of its name.

H-1B LCAs

112,687 LCAs filed for clients, 97% certified

Decided from October 2019 to June 2026.

The employers it filed the most for

  1. JPMorgan Chase& Co. 20,600
  2. Morgan Stanley services Group Inc. 4,425
  3. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 4,149
  4. Meta Platforms, Inc. 3,748
  5. Wells Fargo Bank. N.A. 3,210
  6. Facebook, Inc. 2,462
  7. Caremark, LLC 2,329
  8. CVS Pharmacy, Inc. 2,059

Prevailing wage requests

21,721 wage requests

Decided from October 2023 to June 2026.

The employers it filed the most for

  1. JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 4,403
  2. Meta Platforms, Inc. 1,412
  3. General Motors 809
  4. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 676
  5. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 635
  6. Morgan Stanley Services Group, Inc. 594
  7. Caremark LLC 510
  8. Cadence Design Systems, Inc. 495

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

19 applications, 84% certified

Decided from December 2024 to June 2026.

The employers it filed the most for

  1. Brush Creek LLC 6
  2. Troon Golf, LLC 5
  3. VDLA, LLC 3
  4. Aspen Skiing Company 2
  5. AIFOS - Ancira Hereford Ranch, LLC 2
  6. Key-Scape, 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

99.3%ahead of 65%

0% 100%

Median days to decision

471 daysahead of 44%

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 62 firms ranked nearest filed between 640 and 48,351 cases.

Their median wait
467 days
This one
471 days

This one sits 4 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 3 of 5,571 by volume: 2 filed at least as many cases, and 5,568 filed no more.

Just above
Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP 19,139 cases
Just below
Corporate Immigration Partners, P.C. 6,980 cases

Other Texas firms at this volume

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

Practices filing from Texas 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.

For the firm

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What the firm handles

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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. 5 other spellings of this name were folded into this page and their cases are counted here. The 8 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 #3 counts this page's cases only.

1,612 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, 3,529 of 10,007. 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 10,007 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 99.3%. 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 9,647 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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