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 | Grant SovernPartner
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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| Practice Areas | Immigration and Naturalization; China Law | | | Education | University of Michigan, J.D., 1996, Tufts University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1989 | | | Admitted | 1996, Massachusetts; 2005, Wisconsin | |
| Memberships | American Immigration Lawyers Association. | | | Languages | French and Zarma | | | Biography | Chair 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. | | | ISLN | 912041535 | |
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Department of Homeland Security Issues Revised Form I-9Eric 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 RulesEric 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, 2009Grant 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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