Rick Gump concentrates his practice in the human resource area of international law, with particular emphasis on immigration and authorized employment.  He has significant experience in strategic planning for business and personal visas for international personnel and immigration related compliance and risk assessment.  Client work includes non-immigrant and immigrant visas related to investors, professionals, and technical personnel, and immigration due diligence in mergers and acquisitions.  He was selected by fellow attorneys across the state as a Texas Super Lawyer in the area of immigration, as featured in Texas Monthly Magazine from 2003-2007 and is recognized in the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2008 and Chambers America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2006.  He has also been selected by his peers to be included in the 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Immigration Law.  Mr. Gump is also listed in the Texas Lawyer's 2007 Go- to Guide for top-notch lawyers.  

Mr. Gump, an active speaker and published writer, is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the International Bar Association, the International and Labor Employment Law Sections of the American Bar Association and State Bar of Texas, the Federal Bar Association, and the Dallas Bar Association.  Mr. Gump handled the first employer sanctions case filed in the Southwestern United States under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ("IRCA"), and was co-counsel in one of the largest civil/criminal settlements in worksite compliance history.

Mr. Gump, who has practiced law in Dallas since 1972, has served his profession as AILA Chair of the liaison committee for the Texas Service Center of Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, as Chairman of the Texas Chapter of AILA, and currently as a member of the AILA Worksite Enforcement Conference Committee.  He is also a member of the World Affairs Council, the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations and the John G. Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University.

Mr. Gump received his Bachelor of Arts in Government from the University of Texas in 1969 and his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1972, where he was a member of Phi Delta Phi.  He is admitted to practice before all Texas state courts, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Very active in Dallas community affairs, Mr. Gump has served as President of the Board of Directors of Catholic Charities, the Downtown Dallas YMCA, and the Dallas Texas Exes.  He was a recipient of the 2005 Dallas Texas Exes Outstanding Alumnus Award.  He has served on the Boards of All Saints Catholic Church, Northwood Club and the Serra Club.  He is currently on the Executive Committee of the Metropolitan Dallas YMCA and he is a member of the Salesmanship Club of Dallas.