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PERM law firm, #239 of 5,571 by cases
WILLIAM B. BENNETT & ASSOCIATES LTD
- Biggest client
- ACTIVISION PUBLISHING INC. · 40% of its cases
- Main job
- Special Effects Artists and Animators · 20% of its cases
- Filed from
- California · The address on its filings
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Cases
193
#239 of 5,571
Certified
181
0 denied
Approval
100.0%
field 96.8%
Median wage
$118,477
offered, per year
Median days
406
63 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
- ACTIVISION PUBLISHING INC. 78 filings · 100.0% approved
- Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. 69 filings · 100.0% approved
- ALTERYX, INC. 7 filings
- KING.COM INC. 7 filings
- ACTIVISION BLIZZARD MEDIA LLC 6 filings
- Robin Home Inc. 4 filings
How this is counted
The employers named on the most applications from this firm. 171 of 193 filings, 89% of the total.
What the jobs are
Special Effects Artists and Animators
SOC 27-1014.00 · 38 filings, 20% of everything they file · 100.0% approved
- Software Developers 15-1252.0027
- Multimedia Artists and Animators 27-101412
- Software Developers, Applications 15-113211
- Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 15-1253.009
- Data Scientists 15-2051.007
How this is counted
These are the 6 occupations with the most filings, 104 of 193 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
- California 155
- Texas 23
- Wisconsin 8
- New York 4
- Arizona 1
- Colorado 1
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 192 of 193 filings.
Newspapers it advertised in
- 81 cases
Los Angeles Times
- 18 cases
Austin American-Statesman
- 14 cases
San Francisco Chronicle
- 6 cases
Wisconsin State Journal
- 3 cases
New York Post
- 3 cases
The Orange County Register
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
- 127 cases
Job search websites
- 127 cases
Local or ethnic newspapers
- 127 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
- 0.0%
60 to 89 days
- 24%
90 to 119 days
- 31%
120 to 149 days
- 45%
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 WILLIAM B. BENNETT & ASSOCIATES LTD.
H-1B LCAs
985 LCAs filed for clients, 98% certified
Decided from February 2020 to June 2026.
The employers it filed the most for
Prevailing wage requests
2,585 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
100.0%ahead of 71%, level with 327 more
Median days to decision
406 daysahead of 94%
Each bar counts firms at that value. More
Against the firms ranked nearest
The 120 firms ranked nearest filed between 151 and 239 cases.
- Their median wait
- 466 days
- This one
- 406 days
This one sits 60 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 239 of 5,571 by volume: 238 filed at least as many cases, and 5,332 filed no more.
- Just above
- Harter Secrest & Emery LLP 193 cases
- Just below
- Kerr Russell & Weber, PLC 192 cases
Other California firms at this volume
Practices filing from California at a similar rate, taken from the ranks nearest this one. More
Practices filing from California 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.
- #242 · CA Jiunn-Liang Sheu, Esq. 188 cases · 1 denied
- #235 · CA ENG & NISHIMURA 194 cases · 3 denied
- #256 · CA LAW OFFICES OF JAMES S. HONG 179 cases · 3 denied
- #218 · CA Nadia Yakoob & Associates 204 cases · none denied
- #260 · CA Taki Law Offices, A Professional Corporation 176 cases · none denied
- #261 · CA Naya Law Group PC (dba Finnan, Fleischut & Assoc.) 176 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. The 6 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 #239 counts this page's cases only.
- William Velie, Attorney at Law PLLC 589 filings
- WILLIAM Y. SIM, P. C. 90 filings
- William Newell Siebert, PC 78 filings
- William J. Sanchez, P.A 10 filings
- William K. Chang, Attorney at Law 1 filing
- William K. Chang, Esq. 1 filing
769 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 Special Effects Artists and Animators, 38 of 193. 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 193 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 100.0%. 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 181 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.