Grant Sovern

• Wisconsin Law Journal “Immigration Law Powerlist" (2025)
• Chambers USA^® (2010-present: Labor & Employment: Immigration)
• Best Lawyers in America^® (2008-present: Immigration Law)
• Wisconsin Law Journal “Employment Attorney Power List" (2024)
• Best Lawyers in America^® "Lawyer of the Year" (2012, 2018, 2020, 2023: Immigration Law)
• Quarles Gonring Pro Bono Award Recipient (2022)
• Human Resource Executive/Lawdragon "Most Powerful Employment Attorney - Up and Comer" (2011-2019)
• Who's Who Legal (Corporate Immigration 2013-2018, 2020)
• Human Resources Executive Magazine "Most Powerful Employment Lawyers" (2012-2014)
• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, John and John Quincy Adams Pro Bono Publico Award for outstanding work in the area of asylum law for pro bono clients (2005)
• Massachusetts Lawyer Weekly "Massachusetts Best Lawyers Under 40 Years Old" (2005)
• Mintz Levin Pro Bono Award (1999)

• American Immigration Lawyers Association
  • Social Security Administration Taskforce, member
  • Interagency Taskforce, former member
  • E-Verify Legislative Taskforce, member
  • Employer Verification Liaison Committee, member
  • National Liaison Committee to the U.S. Social Security Administration, chair
• Second Harvest of Southern Wisconsin, former board chair
• Community Immigration Law Center, board of directors, chair
• Barrymore Theater, board of directors
• Quarles DEI Committee, representative
• Has served the U.S. Department of State and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as an international elections supervisor in Bosnia and Hercegovina, as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger and as a pro bono attorney working with asylum-seekers in the U.S.
• University of Wisconsin Law School, Immigration Law, adjunct professor

In this video, Grant shares insight about one of the many pro bono projects to which he has contributed his time and knowledge.