How-Not-to-Hire-U.S.-Workers Law Firm Fires Back

theodp writes "Congress is now calling for a Dept. of Labor investigation into a Pittsburgh law firm after a video showing its attorneys advising employers how to game the immigration system was posted on YouTube. Cohen & Grigsby, the firm in question, issued a statement insisting their statements were commandeered and misused, but would not allow CBS to view the original video in its entirety. Cohen & Grigsby has also been advising employers since 2002 that they have nothing to fear if they keep employees in the dark about the existence of DOL-required H-1B Public Access Files."

I think their punishment should be

[antifoidulus]

they should be forced to give their jobs to low paid H1B workers.

Re:Moot

[flyingfsck]

Yup, pretty soon Americans will be sneaking across the border into Mexico to find work...

Re:USians feel they're entined to everything

[Anonymous Coward]

Tell me USians, how are you more entitled to a job than the rest of the world?

I can't tell if you are just being sarcastic or actually the dumbest person alive.

Paris

[Elsapotk421]

Is this the equivalent of a sex tape for a law firm?

With apologies to Shakespeare

[Hognoxious]

First, let's outsource all the lawyers.

Darn, too many immigration stories lately...

[Tatisimo]

First fruit picking robots, then this. I suggest companies start developing robots to take over the lawyer's jobs. Then the robot lawyers could start telling employees how to cheat the system into somehow unethically profiting off their robotic workers (pirated software on them, maybe?). Then, seeing how corrupt employees are, replace them with robots, leaving us humans to enjoy life.

Re:Nothing new here, sadly

[hoyhoy]

You know what what be cool on slashdot? The ability to edit comments you just posted! The last one should have read. Isn't the purpose of government to placate its constituents through elaborate theater in order to maintain the status quo?

Not going to happen in America

[symbolset]

Forcing lawyers to do honest work is prohibited by the clause in the Constitution that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.

Re:their website

[Crizp]

Sitting atedesco reading email all the time, he never gets a spare moment.

Re:Chickens. Home. Roost.

[jd]

Lawyers have wrists?

Re:USians feel they're entined to everything

[Mr. Bad Example]

> The free market uses the most valuable labour. Now USians are probably
> too stupid to notice this, but the most skilled labour with the least
> costs most certainly isn't coming from USians.
>
> If for no other reason than the MASSIVE health care costs the, uh,
> "oversized" average USian places on the system.

"[...] what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things
I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were
you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought.
Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award
you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

Re:their website

[link15672]

Hey, I know where Stanwix Street is... there are 2 strip clubs within a block of their office... I mean... what? Who said that! I've never been there before!

Pectoral fin slapping!

[HornWumpus]

Bad land shark, no cocaine for you!

Re:Moot

[Sj0]

You laugh, but the US dollar really is in trouble. It's a short 4-5 cents before the Canadian dollar is above the US dollar, for the first time in 30 years. At the rate we're going(In 1992 the canadian dollar was 30 cents lower than the US dollar), our companies really will be hiring illegal American immigrants.

Actually, I love that thought. I want to hire one of you to be my maid.

"Mr. Smith, if you want to live in a country, you'd better learn how to write in our language. If I see ONE MORE "color", or "honor", or even a "gray" in my paperwork, I'm sending you back to your home country, where you can die in poverty. Do I make myself clear?"

Re:USians feel they're entined to everything

[ColdWetDog]

Go for the sarcastic. This isn't digg.

Re:their website

[jammo]

Also from their website: "Cohen & Grigsby is an Equal Opportunity Employer." I'd hate to find a company that claimed to be a highly unequal opportunities employer.