Presidential Commendation for Outstanding Volunteer Service, AILA, 2021

Named as Atlanta 2021 Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers, 2021

Listed in Lawdragon’s 100 Leading Immigration Lawyers, 2023

Listed in Lawdragon's 500 Leading U.S. Corporate Employment Lawyers, 2020, 2024

Named to "Georgia Trailblazers", Daily Report, 2020

Listed in Best Lawyers in America, 2017 to 2025

Named to Chambers USA, 2020 to 2024

Named a Thought Leader: Corporate Immigration, Lexology Index, 2024

Named a Thought Leader: Corporate Immigration, Who’s Who Legal, 2019 to 2023

Named in Who’s Who: Corporate Immigration, 2014 to 2024

Named as one of the United States’ Top 40 “Up and Coming” Immigration and Employment Law Attorneys, Human Resource Executive and Lawdragon, 2016 to 2019

Past Elected Director, American Immigration Lawyers Association – Board of Governors

Vice Chair, American Immigration Lawyers Association – USCIS Headquarters (Benefits Policy) Committee

Past Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association – Sustainability Task Force

Past Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association – Technology and Innovation Committee

Past Chair, American Immigration Lawyers Association – DOL Liaison Committee

Past Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association – Governance Committee

Past Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association – Business Immigration Response Team

Past Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association – Spring Conference Planning Committee

Past Member, Board of Directors, Connected Content Society of the Technology Association of Georgia

Past Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association – H-1B Taskforce

Past Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association – USCIS Transformation Liaison Committee

Past Member and Past Vice Chair, American Immigration Lawyers Association – USCIS Texas Service Center Liaison Committee

Past Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association – USCIS Atlanta District Office Liaison Committee

Represented domestic and international business clients with a wide variety of immigration issues.

Provided various immigration services to business clients across multiple industries, including technology, manufacturing, health providers and financial services.

Experience in immigration compliance matters, including H-1B compliance, prevailing wage issues, and defense of government audits.

Quoted, “Immigration Service Issues New Policy For ‘Extraordinary’ Immigrants.” Forbes, 13 October 2024.

Speaker, “Navigating the PERM Process in 2023.” Fragomen, Webinar, 31 January 2023.

Quoted, “DOJ Legal Settlement Discourages Hiring High-Skilled Immigrants.” Forbes, 20 October 2021.

Speaker, “Labor Certification 101.” AILA National Virtual Annual Conference, June 11, 2021.

Speaker, “Immigration Policy Changes in the First 6 Months of the Biden Administration.” AILA Virtual Roundtable, June 2021.

Speaker, “Labor Certification and Virtual Work Locations.” Worldwide ERC Spring Virtual Conference, May 25, 2021.

Speaker, “Wage Determinations and SOC Updates.” AILA Upper Midwest Virtual Conference, May 14, 2021.

Speaker, “H-1B Cap Season Redux: Looking Back and Moving Forward.” AILA National Virtual Annual Conference, July 21, 2020.

Speaker, “Regulatory and Policy Changes at USCIS and DOS.” AILA National Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida, June 19, 2019.

Speaker, “PERM Updates.” Federal Bar Association 2019 Immigration Law Conference, Austin, Texas, May 17, 2019.

Speaker, “PERM Issues and Trends; Wage & Hour Policies; Latest Audit Trends; BALCA Trends.” AILA Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 11, 2019.

Speaker, “PERM: The One Thing Holding (Mainly) Steady.” AILA Georgia-Alabama Chapter Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, February 14, 2019.

Speaker, “Running to Stand Still: PERM Update.” AILA Midwinter Conference, Indian Wells, California, January 25, 2019.

Speaker, “BALCA: Using Current Decisions as a GPS For Best Practices.” AILA PERM Conference, Washington, DC, December 7, 2018.

Speaker, “Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals – Update.” AILA Webinar, October 23, 2018.

Co-author, “High Stakes for High-Skilled Immigrants: An Analysis of Changes Made to High-Skilled Immigration Policy in the First Year of the Trump Administration in Comparison to Changes Made During the First Year of Previous Presidential Administrations.” Mitchell Hamline Law Review, September 2018.

Speaker, “Immigration Session.” 9th Annual USA India Business Summit and 23rd Annual Georgia Tech Global Business Forum, Atlanta, Georgia, August 28, 2018.

Speaker, “PERM BALCA and FAQ Review.” AILA National Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, June 16, 2018.

Speaker, “PERM – What's in Store for 2018 and Beyond.” AILA Georgia-Alabama Chapter Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, February 22-24, 2018.

Author, “One Year In, Trump’s ‘America First’ Immigration Approach Slows Access to Skilled Labor.” Global Atlanta, 5 December 2017.

Author, “High-Skilled Immigration in a Time of High Uncertainty?” American Immigration Lawyers Association Think Immigration Blog, 4 December 2017.

Presenter, “Business Immigration Hot Topics: Best Practices and Current Trends.” Association of Corporate Counsel Deep Dive Luncheon, Dunwoody, Georgia, November 17, 2017.

Speaker, “Hot Topics in Business Immigration.” 8th Annual USA India Business Summit and 23rd Annual Georgia Tech Global Business Forum, Atlanta, Georgia, September 20, 2017.

Co-author, Business Immigration Law & Practice. 2nd Edition, Washington, DC: American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2017.

Speaker, “PERM Hot Topics.” AILA National Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2016.

Speaker, “Department of Labor Open Forum.” AILA National Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2016.

Speaker, “PERM-Does a Decade Make a Difference?” AILA Upper Midwest Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2016.

Speaker, “Advanced PERM: Successful Reconsiderations and Appeals.” AILA Web Seminar, April 2016.

Speaker, “DOL Open Forum.” AILA National Spring Conference, Washington, DC, April 2016.

Speaker, “PERM Challenges in a New Age.” AILA Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 2016.

Co-Author, “An Immigration Year-End Review.” Global Atlanta, 6 January 2016.

Speaker, “Does the USCIS L-1B Memo Change Things?” AILA Web Seminar, November 2015.

Speaker, “BALCA Decisions, DOL FAQs, and PERM – What’s New?” AILA Web Seminar, September 2015.

Speaker, “PERM Recruitment – The Five W’s: Who, What, Where, When, and Why.” AILA National PERM Conference, Miami, Florida, August 2015.

Speaker, “Department of Labor Open Forum.” AILA National Annual Conference, Washington, DC, June 2015.

Speaker, “Advanced PERM Issues.” AILA Upper Midwest Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2015.

Speaker, “DOL Open Forum.” AILA National Spring Conference, Washington, DC, April 2015.

Speaker, “Recent Immigration Law Changes.” Indian American Cultural Association, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2015.

Speaker, “Executive Action Hot Topics.” Georgia-Alabama Regional Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, February 2015

Speaker, “PERM Audits – What’s Trending.” AILA Web Seminar, February 2015.

Author, “Will Businesses Benefit from the President’s Executive Action on Immigration?” Atlanta Business Chronicle, 19 December 2014.

Speaker, “Department of Labor Open Forum.” AILA National Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2014.

Speaker, “Perplexing PERM Issues – Secrets from Experienced Practitioners.” AILA Web Seminar, May 2014.

Speaker, “DOL Open Forum.” AILA National Spring Conference, Washington, DC, April 2014.

Speaker, “PERM Hot Topics.” AILA Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 2014.

Speaker, “Latest Developments in PERMs.” Georgia-Alabama Regional Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, February 2014.

Speaker, “Recent Trends and Trouble Spots with PERM.” AILA National PERM Conference, Chicago, Illinois, August 2013.

Speaker, “High Skilled Immigration Developments.” Kettering Executive Network, Roswell, Georgia, August 2013.

Speaker, “E-Verify and I-9s.” Cobb-Cherokee Employer Committee, Marietta, Georgia, July 2013.

Speaker, “Department of Labor Open Forum.” AILA National Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, June 2013.

Speaker, “Prevailing Wage Dilemmas.” AILA National Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, June 2013.

Author, “Truths and Myths About the Senate Immigration Bill.” Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, Vol. 21, No. 6, June 2013.

Speaker, “DOL Open Forum.” AILA National Spring Conference, Washington, DC, April 2013.

Speaker, “PERM – Surviving the Ordeal.” AILA New England Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, March 1, 2013.

Speaker, “Kellogg Language in PERM Cases.” AILA Audio Conference, November 1, 2012.

Speaker, “What Every Immigration Attorney Should Know About Export Controls Regulations and Licensing.” AILA National Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, June 2012.

Speaker, “Transformation Open Forum.” AILA National Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, June 2012.

Speaker, “PERM Labor Certification: The Long and Winding Road to Permanent Residency and How to Get There.” AILA National Annual Conference, San Diego, California, June 2011.

Speaker, “Legislative Update.” U.S. Business Immigration Law Issues, Sterling Education Services, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, November 19, 2008.

Speaker, “Immigration Developments.” 5th Annual Labor & Employment Law Conference, The Seminar Group, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2, 2008.