David Nachman:
CLASS OF 1985
Georgetown+UniversityClass of 1985
Washington, DC
Case Western Reserve UniversityClass of 1988
Cleveland, OH
Teaneck High SchoolClass of 1981
Teaneck, NJ
Benjamin Franklin Junior High SchoolClass of 1979
Teaneck, NJ
Whittier Elementary SchoolClass of 1976
Teaneck, NJ
David's Story
Lawyer Turned International-Restaurant Owner David Nachman
Coming from a background in business that he began building during his college years, Nachman has thriven in law for more than 15 years and has successfully started two companies-a restaurant and a bar¿along the way. Now, as he prepares to launch his third venture, a food tour in France, Nachman looks forward to discovering what opportunities his business career will bring to his national law practice.
After completing his undergraduate degree at Georgetown University, having always been intrigued by law as well as business, Nachman attended Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, earning his J.D. and his master's in business. "I always tied business to what I was doing in law. Law, when it really boils down, is a business," he said.
While he was in school, Nachman helped start a t-shirt business, which ultimately helped him pay his way through school. One evening, at the campus pub, Nachman and one of his classmates came up with the idea to design "law suits"¿or, rather, track suits for lawyers to wear called law suits. The team marketed the law suits to different law schools, including Case Western Reserve, the University of Chicago, and New York University. They later designed "legal briefs"¿underwear for lawyers. Their legal briefs actually made it into department stores for a time, as well.
Toward the end of his schooling, Nachman was a resident director for the university and began working for the Dean of Student Affairs while continuing to run his business. After finishing his Master's Degree in Business Administration, Nachman went on to work as an Associate at a large firm in New Jersey. After moving on to another firm specializing in securities law, Nachman still felt a bit unsettled.
"Being at a large firm is an environment that you really have to be used to. If you have a lot of diverse interests, it's a very hard place to be. There's not a whole lot of thinking out of the box," he said.
While at his first two firms, Nachman had begun encouraging the partners to open branches in business immigration law, a newfound interest and passion of his. Unfortunately, he was never able to convince them.
David Nachman's sushi bar/art gallery/bar Lounge ZEN in Teaneck, NJ
In 1993, Nachman was finally able to achieve his goal by open...Expand for more
ing his own firm specializing in business immigration law in New Jersey. Nachman built his private practice from the ground up until 1999, when he merged with large labor and employment firm Grotta, Glassman & Hoffman; however, their combined firm was short-lived because it eventually merged with another firm, Fox Rothschild.
When Nachman first merged his firm with Grotta, Glassman & Hoffman, he met another immigration attorney, David Sindell, who had offices in Tokyo, New York, and California. The two had a lot in common professionally and became friends. In 2001, Nachman resigned from Grotta, Glassman & Hoffman to work as a sole practitioner. Shortly after, he received a call from Sindell, who said that there was a restaurant he thought the two of them should buy in New Jersey.
With his love for business intact and no clients on his roster, Nachman found this to be the perfect time to explore opening a restaurant. In 2004, after approximately one year of business, the team decided to revamp the Japanese restaurant they owned in New Jersey by importing a French-trained team of Japanese cooks that had worked for Sindell at a chateau in Southern France, which he was in the process of selling.
They revitalized the restaurant, making it a hip Japanese-French fusion restaurant called Bistro EN. Six months later, Nachman and Sindell opened a sushi bar/art gallery/bar next door called Lounge ZEN.
Now, David Nachman is the Managing Partner of a Firm called Nachman & Associates, P.C. that has offices in New York, New Jersey and Canada. His staff of five (5) lawyers harken from all over the world. The Firm provides Global Immigration Law Services to businesses throughout the U.S. and from all over the world. The Nachman & Associates, P.C. staff practice as the "VISASERVE" team and they provide temporary visas such as H-1B and L-1 and O-1 and permanent green cards through the PERM labor certification process to highly skilled foreign national workers coming to the U.S.
Mr. Nachman says "when I go to work each day I feel that I am competing against foreign countries who are opening their doors to welcome highly skilled talent to those foreign countries . . . it is the U.S. competing to take advantage of the worldwide brain drain."
*** Credit for much of this article goes to Ms. Mary Waldron at LawCrossing.com.
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