About Gerald Goulder

Gerald P. Goulder Attorney & Counsellor at Law has over 25 years experience in business and commercial law including 13 years experience as CEO of a $21 million, 180 employee closely held corporation.

Gerald P. Goulder is an attorney who is also a businessman. He has experience practicing law and owning and managing a medium size corporation. He has experience on public and private corporation Boards of Directors.

Gerald P. Goulder has practiced law for 25 years. He has served as an Assistant Attorney General of the State of Ohio, a Special Prosecutor of the Ohio Attorney General and Special Counsel to the Ohio Attorney General. He was in private law practice in Columbus, Ohio for 3 years before moving to Greensboro, North Carolina in 1983 to open a retail business. He owned and operated the business for 13 years until it was sold in 1996.

Gerald P. Goulder graduated "With Honors" from The Ohio State University with a B. A. in economics and history. He attended Washington University School of Law, where he was an Associate Editor of the Urban Law Review, and graduated with a Juris Doctor degree. He has been a licensed attorney for over 25 years. He has served as a Special Counsel, Special Prosecutor and Assistant Attorney General of Ohio for several years. He is a certified District Court Arbitrator in N. C. and a Superior Court Certified Mediator. He was an organizer of the Equine Dispute Resolution Service that taught a mediation course for the horse industry sponsored by The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Bryan Business School and The North Carolina Business Court.

Mr. Goulder is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. The following are some of the types of immigration petitions, immigration and nonimmigration visas, with which the firm has experience:

• H-1B Specialty Occupation Work Visa (and dependents)
• Physicians Visas and National Interest Waivers
• Nurses and other Health Care Workers Visas and H-1C
• Labor Certifications on Work Visas
• Waivers
• Adjustment of Status to Permanent Resident
• Employment-Based Residency Petition (and dependents)
• Family And Marriage Based Residency Petition (and dependents)
• Preference Categories
• Citizenship - Naturalization
• Alien Fiancé(e) K-1 Visa
• Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
• Treaty Trader E-1 & Treaty Investor E-2 Visa
• J-1 Exchange Visitors (and dependents)
• Intra-Company Transfers L-1 Visa

Mr. Goulder has a varied background in business and law enabling him to bring keen insight to immigration matters. In 1983 he founded a start up retail business in Greensboro that grew to 180 employees and over $21 million in sales. The business was sold in 1996. Mr. Goulder has extensive business and corporate management experience, including retail management, advertising marketing, inventory management, purchasing, import-export and foreign sourcing. He also has extensive legal experience with advertising, antitrust and trade regulation, close corporation law, corporate governance, boards of directors, election law, constitutional law and voting rights, workmans compensation, employment law, commercial leases, family business law, franchise matters, litigation, and mediation.

Currently, he is editor and CEO of YouthLacrosseUSA.com, and LacrosseNews.cc on-line lacrosse news and content web sits with annual traffic in excess of 5 million hits.

Mr. Goulder is a member of the US Lacrosse, Lacrosse Industry Council, is an active lacrosse official and a member of the North Carolina Lacrosse Officials Association. He served as a Vice-President and Board member of the North Carolina Chapter of US Lacrosse (2002-2006) and President of the North Carolina Youth Lacrosse Association (2005-2006), and a director of ClubTriad (a Greensboro-based non-profit firm which is a developmental lacrosse team and program for select high school lacrosse players).

Mr. Goulder has served on the Board of Trustees and President of his synagogue in Greensboro, NC. He has also served on the Boards of public not-for-profit and private corporations, including The Eastern Music Festival, The UNCG Spartan Excellence Fund and The Wexner Heritage Village. A listing of his private corporation board experience is available on request.

He has been elected to the North Carolina Republican Party State Executive Committee, the North Carolina 6th Congressional District Organization Executive Committee, served two years as Executive Director of the Republican Party of Guilford County, provides some legal services to the local party. He has extensive political campaign experience.He serves on the Patrick Ballantine for Governor Statewide and Guilford County Steering Committees and served on the Elizabeth Dole for US Senate Guilford County Steering Committee. Mr. Goulder is a Fellow of the North Carolina Institute of Political Leadership.