Are You Ready for ICE? What Every Staffing Firm Needs to Know in 2025

Who Should Attend

Staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions industry owners, principals, chief executive officers, presidents, branch managers, and recruiting professionals

Highlights

Immigration enforcement is making headlines daily. The administration is rolling back programs that previously provided work authorization to hundreds of thousands of employees, leading to widespread uncertainty and heightened enforcement efforts. Concerns about workplace raids, Form I-9 investigations, and the detention of individuals working unlawfully are escalating. At the same time, end clients are getting involved in the E-Verify and Form I-9 process for staffing firm workers.

As enforcement intensifies, staffing companies must have a comprehensive plan to ensure compliance and preparedness, including identifying pain points and taking proactive steps to protect their business. In this encore presentation of a session from the 2025 ASA Staffing Law & Compliance Conference, immigration law experts Helen L. Konrad of McCandlish Holton PC and Dawn M. Lurie of Seyfarth Shaw LLP will discuss these topics and provide updates.

During this webinar, attendees will learn

• How recent policy changes are affecting work authorization and employment eligibility for staffing firm workers.
• How risks of workplace raids, Form I-9 audits, and the detention of unauthorized workers have increased
• What role end clients play in E-Verify and Form I-9 processes, especially as they pertain to staffing agencies
• How to assess compliance vulnerabilities within an organization and implement measures to address them before enforcement actions occur
• Best practices to safeguard companies through training, documentation, and a coordinated response plan

Presenter(s)

Helen L. Konrad, Esq.
Director, McCandlish Holton PC

Konrad is director in the immigration practice group of the law firm McCandlish Holton PC, where she concentrates her practice on employment-based and professional immigration, with emphasis on work site enforcement, Form I-9 compliance, E-Verify, H-1B visas, green cards, national interest waivers, and other immigration issues. She provides comprehensive I-9 and E-Verify training to HR professionals and also publishes immigration updates for national trade organizations on I-9 compliance and E-Verify and provides critical expertise in this complex area. Konrad has been recognized as one of the best immigration lawyers in America since 2010 and she is consistently one of the highest-rated speakers at ASA events.

Dawn M. Lurie, Esq.
Senior Counsel, Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Lurie is a senior counsel in the Washington, DC, office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. She leads the firm’s immigration, compliance, and enforcement specialty team. Clients regularly turn to Lurie for assistance with immigration-related government I-9 audits, internal assessments, and electronic I-9 due-diligence reviews. She offers forward-thinking advice on I-9 hiring practices, tackling issues such as immigration-related discrimination and navigating the E-Verify process, alongside monitoring and compliance matters. Lurie also defends employers in civil and criminal workplace enforcement actions and conducts immigration-related internal investigations and analyses of I-9 issues in mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate transactions. Furthermore, she aids federal government contractors in adhering to the Federal Acquisition Rule’s E-Verify compliance mandates and the associated flow-down clause. Lurie also supports employers with state E-Verify inspections and acts as a third-party auditor for companies that must provide certifications of I-9 compliance. She takes particular pride in her policy-oriented endeavors—especially her work on the Alternatives to the Physical Document Inspection (Virtual) rule’s implementation and her collaboration with key stakeholders in updating I-9 guidance and policies.

This webinar qualifies for 1.0 hour of CE toward maintaining your ASA credential.