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SUMMARY:01 · Saintliness Required: DOL Hot Topics
LOCATION:Room A\, Renaissance New Orleans Arts Hotel\, 700 Tchoupitoulas St
 reet\, New Orleans\, LA 70130
DESCRIPTION:Vice v. Virtue: Immigration Law in a Complex World\nAILA MidSou
 th Chapter Conference 2026 · Session 01 · Room A\n\nPanelists:\n• Robi
 n O'Donoghue (O'Donoghue Law\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts)\n• Douglas Rus
 so (Rose Immigration Law Firm\, Brentwood\, Tennessee)\n• Magaly Cheng (
 Clark Lau\, Boston\, Massachusetts)\n• George Ernst (Hall Booth Smith\, 
 Little Rock\, Arkansas)\n\nThe Department of Labor is keeping even seasone
 d immigration practitioners on their toes\, with evolving policies\, shift
 ing standards\, long processing times\, and employer compliance scrutiny t
 hat can feel like a test of professional patience\, creativity\, and possi
 bly sainthood.\n\nIn this hot topics session\, panelists will unpack the l
 atest DOL developments\, spotlight the trouble spots causing headaches in 
 real-world practice\, and offer practical strategies for helping employers
  make it through the process with compliance\, credibility\, and maybe eve
 n a little grace intact.\n\nThe panel will discuss:\n• Current trends in
  prevailing wage determinations\, recruitment requirements\, audits\, and 
 supervised recruitment.\n• Practical approaches for responding to audits
 \, requests for information\, and other forms of DOL scrutiny.\n• Emergi
 ng DOL enforcement priorities and their potential impact on employment-bas
 ed immigration practice.\n• Best practices for counseling employers on n
 avigating evolving DOL requirements and processing time realities.
CATEGORIES:AILA MidSouth 2026,Room A
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
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