Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Utah Attorney General is soliciting proposals from qualified attorneys or law firms to provide legal services relating to employment-based immigration petitions to the education institutions. A. The AG anticipates that the State will have the need for numerous employment-based immigration petitions to be filed over the course of the contract period. However, this is only an estimate. The AG and State do not guarantee the number, the dollar amount, nor the types of needs that may occur. B. The law firms selected will provide those legal services normally associated with services rendered by immigration lawyers to support employment of foreign nationals in the United States. These legal services will likely include: 1. Gathering, preparing, and filing documents and petitions necessary or appropriate to assist the State and particularly institutions of higher education with matters involving employment-based immigration petitions for employment in the United States; 2. Counseling on employment-based work authorization applications and obtaining employment-based green cards to facilitate employment in the United States; 3. Working with Human Resource Managers and in-house counsel for the institutions of higher education in matters involving employment-based immigration processes; 4. The types of employment-based immigration petitions, include, but are not limited to: H-1B; H1-B1; E-3; TN; O-1; EB-1 Outstanding Professor & Researcher; EB-2 and EB-3 Labor Certification processes; EB-2 National Interest Waiver processes; Waivers of the J-1 Two-Year Home Residency Requirement (such as waivers supported by interested government agencies, including Conrad 30, HHS, NSF and other federal agencies); 5. After the filing of an employment-based petition, services may include responding to Requests for Additional Evidence; Notices of Intent to Deny; Audits from Labor Certification processes; motions to reconsider; motions for redetermination or appeal of denied applications. 6. Services will also include evaluation of CVs of potential employees and/or positions for filing employment-based immigration petitions at no charge to the State/institution of higher education. For example, review of a CV to evaluate chance of success of O-1 petition for a researcher who has applied for a position at a university.