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John Fay is an experienced corporate immigration attorney and I-9/E-Verify blogger with a unique background in designing and advising on case management technology. John serves as Vice President of Products and Services and General Counsel and is a regular author for the blogs at LawLogix.
Aimee Clark Todd
Of Counsel – Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, GA
Aimee Clark Todd’s practice concentrates on business immigration, including temporary working status and permanent residence for professionals, international transfers, investors, researchers, artists and athletes.
Alan Gordon
Founding and Managing Attorney, Alan Gordon Immigration Law, Charlotte, NC
Alan Gordon is the Founding and Managing Attorney at Alan Gordon Immigration Law, a comprehensive immigration law firm providing services to employers, foreign nationals and their families for over thirty years. The firm provides a range of corporate immigration services, including I-9 Audits and E-verify defense and assisting companies in developing an immigration compliance strategy to minimize liabilities arising out of government audits.
Allen Orr, Jr.
Attorney at Law – Orr Immigration Law Firm, P.C., Washington, DC
Allen Orr Jr. practices in U.S. Immigration representing employers in various business immigration matters, including I-9 compliance and Department of Labor audits.
Amanda Paquet
Attorney – Stone, Grzegorek & Gonzalez, Los Angeles, CA
Amanda Paquet’s practice emphasizes business and investment immigration. She has represented of a broad range of clients from academics to entrepreneurs, with a particular interest in worksite enforcement and immigration compliance issues.
Amy Peck
Of Counsel – Jackson Lewis LLP, Omaha, NE
Amy Peck practices defending employers against I-9 Notices of Inspections and conducts I-9 compliance audits for organizations across the country.
Angelo A. Paparelli
Partner – Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Irvine, CA
Angelo Paparelli is a partner in the Business Immigration Practice Group of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. As a Certified Immigration Law Specialist (CA), he is known among clients and peers for providing creative solutions to complex immigration law problems, especially those involving mergers and acquisitions.
Ann Cun
Immigration Attorney, San Francisco, CA
Ann Cun is an immigration attorney who has helped many U.S. companies obtain work visas for their foreign hires. She practices exclusively in U.S. immigration law on employment and investment visas. Ann previously served as a Principal Editor for LawLogix.
Anthony Weigel
Principal – Weigel Law Office, LLC, Grain Valley, MO
Anthony (“Tony”) Weigel is the Principal of Weigel Law Office, LLC and concentrates his practice in the areas of business-immigration law and employer compliance with immigration laws.
Bernard Wolfsdorf
Principal – Wolfsdorf Immigration Law Group, Santa Monica, CA
Bernard P. Wolfsdorf is a recent past President of AILA and Managing Partner of the top-rated Wolfsdorf Immigration Law Group with offices in Los Angeles and New York.
Bruce E. Buchanan
Attorney – Siskind Susser, Nashville, TN
Bruce E. Buchanan is an Attorney at the Nashville Office of Siskind Susser, P.C. He represents individuals and employers in all aspects of immigration law, with an emphasis on employer immigration compliance, as well as employers in employment/labor law matters.
Camille Mackler
Attorney – The Law Office of Camille Mackler, New York, NY
Camille Mackler provides exclusive immigration and naturalization services in French and English. Her office manages all kinds of immigration cases, with a particular emphasis on federal litigation, family-based immigration, and waiver applications. Ms. Mackler also frequently represents individuals seeking asylum or facing deportation from the United States.
Charles H. Kuck
Managing Partner – Kuck Immigration Partners LLC, Atlanta, GA
Charles Kuck is the Managing Partner of Kuck Immigration Partners LLC – The Immigration Law Firm, and oversees its nationwide immigration practice. Mr. Kuck assists employers and employees with business and professional visas, labor certifications, immigrant visas, consular representation, and citizenship matters and maintains an active Federal Court practice focusing on immigration issues.
Charles M. Miller
Principal – Miller Law Offices, Studio City, CA
Charles M. Miller formerly served as General Attorney for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. He later entered private practice and founded the Miller Law Offices in 1979. Mr. Miller is a California State Bar Certified Specialist in Immigration Law.
Christine D. Mehfoud
Director – Spotts Fain PC, Richmond, VA
Ms. Mehfoud is a Director with Spotts Fain PC. Her practice focuses primarily on representing businesses responding to administrative, civil and criminal investigations. She has substantial experience advising employers regarding immigration compliance and defending enforcement actions, including conducting Form I-9 training and auditing, drafting immigration compliance policies and procedures, analyzing E-Verify participation and conducting E-Verify training and auditing, and defending employers facing Form I-9 Notices of Inspection and/or DOJ OSC discrimination investigations.
Daniel Brown
Partner – Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen and Loewy, LLP, Washington, DC
Daniel Brown is a Partner in the firm’s Washington, DC office, and is part of the firm’s Government Strategies and Compliance Group. His experience includes counseling corporate clients on business immigration, compliance and enforcement matters, with a focus on I-9 and E-Verify issues.
Dawn M. Lurie
Shareholder – Polsinelli PC, Washington, DC
Dawn M. Lurie is recognized in the legal community as a sophisticated and forward thinking immigration compliance authority and EB-5 investment strategist. She focuses on visa, workforce, and global mobility issues. Dawn’s Form I-9 and E-Verify experience is nationally recognized. By developing and managing corporate immigration compliance programs, including training and internal audit components, she minimizes exposure and liability, saving her clients millions of dollars.
Gary Endelman
Senior Counsel – Foster Quan, LLP, Houston, TX
Gary Endelman is Board Certified in Immigration and Nationality Law from Texas Board of Legal Specialization and practices exclusively in employment based immigration matters.
Giselle Carson
Shareholder – Marks Gray, P.A., Jacksonville, FL
Giselle Carson is a Shareholder at Marks Gray, P.A. and practices in the area of U.S. and global immigration, corporate and business law, and civil litigation.
Gus Shihab
Managing Attorney – The Law Firm of Shihab & Associates, Columbus, OH
Gus Shihab practices all aspects of U.S. immigration and nationality law for employers, individuals and families. The Law Firm of Shihab & Associates, Co., LPA enjoys a reputation of unparalleled innovative and vigorous advocacy in international and immigration law representation.
Ilana J. Drummond
Partner – Jackson & Hertogs LLP, San Francisco, CA
Ilana J. Drummond is a Managing Partner at Jackson & Hertogs, since 2004. Having focused her practice exclusively on immigration matters for her entire career, Ilana has developed an expertise in helping large and small corporations address their immigration needs.
Jared Leung
Of Counsel – Fennemore Craig, P.C., Phoenix, AZ
Jared Leung has extensive experience in business immigration matters, such as immigrant and non-immigrant petition processing at USCIS, visa applications at U.S. embassies and consulates, and PERM applications with the Department of Labor. Mr. Leung has also worked closely with individual clients, investors and those with family immigration needs.
Josie Gonzalez
Managing Partner – Stone Grzegorek & Gonzalez LLP, Los Angeles, CA
Josie Gonzalez is a partner of Stone Grzegorek & Gonzalez LLP, in Los Angeles, CA. She is recognized nationally as an expert in employment-based immigration, I-9 compliance and worksite enforcement. She previously served on AILA committee leadership positions in the areas of worksite enforcement. She has represented hundreds of employers in I-9 audits and represented a major employer who was criminally charged for I-9 worksite-related activities. Josie received the American Immigration Lawyers Association Founder’s Award for “the most substantial impact on the field of immigration law or policy.” She is the editor of AILA’s leading treatise, Guide to Worksite Enforcement & Corporate Compliance. She received her undergraduate, masters and law degrees from U.C. Berkeley
Kenneth A. Cohen
Partner – Kavinoky Cook LLP, Buffalo, NY
Kenneth A. Cohen is a Partner at Kavinoky Cook LLP. Mr. Cohen heads the U.S. immigration law practice at the firm providing services to U.S. employers, families and individuals.
Kevin Lashus
Managing Partner – Jackson Lewis LLP, Austin, TX
Kevin Lashus focuses his practice on corporate employment verification compliance and inbound business immigration including full-scale or localized IMAGE and E-Verify implementation protocols. He is Board Certified in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
Kimberly Best Robidoux
Senior Associate – Larrabee, Mehlman, Albi, Coker LLP, San Diego, CA
Kimberley Best Robidoux has practices exclusively in the field of immigration law. She joined Larrabee | Mehlman | Albi | Coker LLP in 2004 from another prestigious law firm.
L. Batya Schwartz Ehrens
Principal – Schwartz Ehrens Immigration Law, New York, NY
L. Batya Schwartz Ehrens is a Principal at Schwartz Ehrens Immigration Law. She has represented companies and individuals seeking to secure nonimmigrant visas and permanent residence and has taught business immigration law as an adjunct professor at the City University of New York (CUNY).
Marcine A. Seid
ounsel – Seid Law Group, San Jose, CA
Marcine A. Seid, Esq., practices exclusively in the area of Immigration and Naturalization Law as a member of the State Bar of California.
Mary E. Pivec
Partner, Washington, DC Office – Ford & Harrison LLP
Mary Pivec has more than 30 years’ experience as a management-side immigration and employment attorney. Mary’s immigration practice focuses on the growing intersection between immigration enforcement and immigration-related labor protections. She represents employers in civil and criminal worksite enforcement cases, I-9 compliance counseling and immigration-related discrimination investigations, administrative hearings claims and H1-B/LCA investigations and enforcement proceedings brought by the U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour division.
Matt Martinez
Director – Fennemore Craig, P.C., Phoenix, AZ
Matt Martinez is an experienced Phoenix immigration lawyer providing immigration-related counsel for multinational corporations, academic institutions, information technology providers and users, foreign investors, performers, professional athletes, manufacturers and individuals from numerous countries.
Nicole Kersey
Managing Director – Kersey Immigration Compliance, LLP, Crozet, VA
Nicole A. (“Nici”) Kersey is an attorney whose practice has been dedicated to employment-based immigration, with a focus on the Form I-9, E-Verify, and related immigration compliance issues.
Paul L. Zulkie
Managing Principal – Zulkie Partners LLC, Chicago, IL
Paul L. Zulkie is a 1977 graduate of the University of Illinois, College of Law. Paul concentrates in Business Immigration and Corporate Law and is licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois and before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Randall Caudle
Managing Attorney – Caudle Immigration, San Francisco, CA
Randall Caudle focuses his practice on U.S. family-based immigration matters, including Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Waivers, Spousal Petitions, as well as business-immigration matters for companies.
Sharon R. Mehlman
Partner – Larrabee, Mehlman, Albi, Coker LLP, San Diego, CA
Sharon Mehlman is an AV rated attorney, whose practice focuses on corporate immigration matters for the high-tech, biotech, computer gaming, multimedia and telecommunications industries including recruitment and retention of foreign nationals, implementation of strategies for the overall immigration process, and I-9 audits and training.
Tien-Li Loke Walsh
Attorney at Law – Loke Walsh Immigration Law, PC, Pacific Palisades, CA
Tien-Li (“TL”) Loke Walsh is the principal of Loke Walsh Immigration Law, PC and has practiced exclusively in the field of immigration law since her admission to the California State Bar in 1997.
Valentine A. Brown
Partner – Duane Morris LLP, Philadelphia, PA
Valentine A. Brown is a partner at Duane Morris LLP in the Employment, Labor, Benefits and Immigration Practice Group. She serves as global immigration law counsel to a diverse group of multi-national and domestic corporations and their employees, providing advice, compliance audits and representation to help navigate the intricacies of US and foreign immigration laws.
Wendy Padilla Madden
Counsel – Balch & Bingham LLP, Birmingham, AL
Wendy Padilla-Madden practices in the firm’s Labor & Employment group in the Birmingham office. She specializes in business immigration law. Her practice is divided into two main areas: immigration compliance and obtaining temporary employment authorization and permanent residence (immigration benefits) for foreign nationals.