Achievements | Oct 30, 2025Partner Carol Friend Receives Interlaw’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Honigman Partner, Carol Friend, has been honored with the Interlaw Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her outstanding service, leadership, and dedication within the organization. This award is one of the network's most prestigious honors, reserved annually for those who continually advance the organization's mission.

Carol concentrates her practice on employment-based immigration and represents national and international companies in complex business immigration matters. She has represented numerous international and U.S. affiliated companies in obtaining work authorization for employees to work in the U.S. She assists U.S. companies in evaluating Form I-9 and E-Verify compliance programs, including the evaluation and selection of electronic I-9 and E-Verify vendors, assists clients with Form I-9 internal and government audits, obtains O-1, alien of extraordinary ability status, for highly talented employees during H-1B cap droughts, manages the L-1 and permanent resident process for a significant number of high-level executives, and brings to clients a substantially high success rate in the filing of EB-1 Outstanding Researcher and International Executive/Manager immigrant petitions.

Read more about Carol's recent award here .