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Grant Sovern

Grant Sovern

Partner
 
Quarles & Brady LLP
33 East Main Street, Suite 900
Madison, Wisconsin  53703-3095
(Dane Co.)

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 2113, Madison, WI, 53701-2113

Telephone: (608) 283-2668
Fax: (608) 294-4973
http://www.quarles.com



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Experience & Credentials
 


Practice AreasImmigration and Naturalization; China Law
 
EducationUniversity of Michigan, J.D., 1996, Tufts University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1989
 
Admitted1996, Massachusetts; 2005, Wisconsin
 
MembershipsAmerican Immigration Lawyers Association.
 
LanguagesFrench and Zarma
 
BiographyChair of Quarles & Brady's national immigration practice. Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he teaches Immigration Law. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® (Immigration Law, 2008—). Selected to list of Massachusetts Lawyer Weekly's Massachusetts Best Lawyers Under 40 years old, 2005. Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1999. Mintz Levin Pro Bono Award, 1999. Chair of the AILA National Liaison Committee to the U.S. Social Security Administration. Quarles & Brady Diversity Committee representative. Member of AILA's Interagency Taskforce and E-Verify Legislative Taskforce. Member of the Board of Directors of Second Harvest of Southern Wisconsin. Served the U.S. Department of State and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as an International Elections Supervisor in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, West Africa, and pro bono attorney working with asylum-seekers in the U.S.
 
ISLN912041535
 

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Department of Homeland Security Issues Revised Form I-9
Eric D. Ledbetter, Grant Sovern, Lisa Dibbern Duran, Benjamin T. Kurten, Maria Frenn Kallmeyer, September 13, 2009
On August 27, 2009, the Department of Homeland Security's Citizenship and Immigration Services issued a minor revision to the Form I-9. The new version is fillable online and now bears an expiration date of 8/31/2012 in the upper right corner. No substantive changes were made, either to the form or...

Federal Government Expands Enforcement of Immigration, I-9 and E-Verify Rules
Eric D. Ledbetter, Benjamin T. Kurten, Maria Frenn Kallmeyer, Grant Sovern, Lisa Dibbern Duran, August 18, 2009
The federal government has recently announced several new initiatives to curb the employment of undocumented workers and promote good I-9 and E-Verify practices. Although the initiatives are aimed primarily at employers who knowingly employ undocumented workers, all employers are encouraged to take...

All Employers Required To Use New Form I-9 in Hiring Process Starting February 2, 2009
Grant Sovern, Lisa Dibbern Duran, Benjamin T. Kurten, Maria Frenn Kallmeyer, March 5, 2009
The Department of Homeland Security's Citizenship and Immigration Services issued a new regulation stating that, starting April 3, 2009, all U.S. employers must begin using a new version of Form I-9 for verifying the employment eligibility of all new hires.



 

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