*Webinars to be hosted in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
Thursday, March 20, 2025 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (EDT)
Thursday, March 27, 2025 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (EDT)
Description:
With the Trump administration's recent flurry of executive orders related to immigration action items of interest to employers and their increased scrutiny over the status of foreign workers in the U.S., the best time to prepare and protect your business from liability is now.
In this two-part webinar series, we are going to discuss the pressing topics of the day for contractors, including:
- Are we a target of ICE for an audit or raid?
- What’s the difference between a raid and an audit?
- How do you best respond to an audit/raid at your jobsite?
- Can we prepare for audit and/or raid?
- Why is it important to have your I-9 forms in order?
- How do you prepare an internal I-9 audit?
- How do you prepare and protect your legal/authorized workers from getting affected by a raid or rumor of an impending raid?
- Can you protect your legal workforce?
- How do you continue to access foreign workers legally in this environment?
- What visas/programs are available and what is their continued viability?
- Are you required to use E-Verify in states you operate in?
- Review of content from last month’s webinar.
Speakers:
Bruce Buchanan
Special Counsel
Littler Mendelson P.C.
Bruce E. Buchanan is Special Counsel at Littler Mendelson’s Nashville, Tennessee office. Bruce counsels employers on immigration compliance issues, conducts internal I-9 audits, represents employers in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) inspections/audits and Immigrant and Employee Rights investigations, and employment-based visas and green cards. Also, Bruce practices labor law where he represents employers before NLRB and DOL’s Wage & Hour Division and in collective bargaining.
Bruce is the co-author of The I-9 and E-Verify Handbook, 2017 and 2024 editions and an editor of Kurzban’s Immigration Law Sourcebook on employer sanctions. Bruce served on American Immigration Lawyers Association’s Verification & Documentation Liaison Committee for five years. He is a frequent speaker and author on immigration compliance and labor law before numerous organizations, including AILA, Associated General Contractors (AGC), Tennessee Bar Association (TBA), Tennessee Bankers Association, SHRM, and American Payroll Association. He also frequently writes on immigration compliance issues.
Bruce received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1982 and his B.S., magna cum laude, from Florida State University in 1979.
Deepti Orekondy
Associate Counsel
Littler Mendelson P.C.
Deepti Orekondy's practice primarily focuses on working with foreign individuals and multinational organizations in the area of business immigration law. She has a broad base of experience advising clients in pursuit of immigrant and nonimmigrant visas. Her experience includes representing individuals and multinational organizations in filings with the USCIS, Department of State, and Department of Labor.
Deepti previously worked as an immigration associate at a boutique law firm in Miami, where she practiced business and family-based immigration law. She also worked in Atlanta for an AmLaw 100 law firm.
Deepti received her J.D. from the University of Miami Law School, where she served as the senior writing editor of the University of Miami Business Law Review. While in law school, she interned with Immigration and Customs Enforcement with the Department of Homeland Security and subsequently worked as a student attorney with the University of Miami Immigration Clinic, where she represented clients before USCIS and the Immigration Court.
Continuing Education Offered:
The use of this official seal confirms that the Associated General Contractors of America meets the criteria for pre-approved recertification credit(s) for any of HR Certification Institute’s® (www.HRCI.org) eight credentials, including SPHR® and PHR®.
The Associated General Contractors of America is recognized by SHRM (www.SHRM.org) to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.
Participants can earn up to 2.0 HRCI CE Credits and 2.0 SHRM PDCs by attending the entire webinar series. Attendees will receive a separate email after the last webinar of the series with details to submit the webinar activity and claim credit toward their HRCI and SHRM recertification requirements.
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