ABA book helps private lawyers navigate the changing terrain of immigration compliance
Just published by the American Bar Association, “ABA Immigration Compliance and Best Practices” offers crucial expertise to private labor and employment attorneys, rivaling the resources available to government lawyers. Renowned immigration lawyers and authors Charles M. Miller, Marcine A. Seid and Daniel Brown bring their combined experience to this practitioners’ handbook.
As ICE enforcement increases in the workplace — with audits that can quickly turn from civil inspections to criminal investigations — knowing the ins and outs of immigration compliance can prove critical to employers. With hard-to-find knowledge and comprehensive detail rarely accessible to the private practice lawyer, “ABA Immigration Compliance and Best Practices” guides attorneys to the most effective solutions to federal regulations for past and future employees, as well as asylees and refugees.
Miller helped establish immigration law as a field of legal specialization in California, serving on the state bar’s Specialty Advisory Commission as chairman and a member. His ABA and Aspen books, coauthored with Seid, are indispensable immigration compliance resources. Miller is the founding partner of the Miller Law Offices in Studio City, Calif.
Seid is the principal attorney of the Seid Law Group of Palo Alto, Calif. Seid’s practice focuses on business immigration and the representation of employers in I-9 inspections and worksite investigations. She is the coauthor of “Immigration Law in the Workplace” (Aspen) and “Immigration Compliance Auditing for Lawyers” (ABA).
Brown is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP, and is part of the firm’s Government Strategies and Compliance Group. Prior to entering private practice, he was the ICE director of the Office of Policy and Planning and held other senior Department of Homeland Security positions.
ABA book helps personal trustees find the life insurance answers they need
Just published by the ABA, “Due Diligence of Trust-Owned Life Insurance” simplifies the often-confusing language of insurance into plain-spoken answers that will help consumers and advisers alike. Experts Lawrence Brody, Billie D. Resnick, John Resnick and Richard Weber collaborated to bring the best of law and life insurance to this volume while encouraging protection that is properly acquired and actively managed.
Selecting and maintaining long-term solutions to life insurance is a challenge for even the most well-versed attorney. In counseling clients, they face pitfalls with the failure of policy performance and projections to manage financial liquidity after death. The authors make insurance terminology more accessible for lawyers so that they can outline potential impacts on their clients. This volume clarifies necessary due diligence and helps lawyers determine what’s best for the beneficiaries. With quick answers to the most frequently asked questions, thumbnails on all major forms of life insurance and sample documentation and illustrations, “Due Diligence of Trust-Owned Life Insurance” provides attorneys with the best resource for decision-making criteria.
Brody is a partner of Bryan Cave LLP and an adjunct professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. He is the author or co-author of numerous articles and books on the use of life insurance in estate and employee benefit planning.
Billie Resnick is a co-founder with her husband of The Resnick Group in Naples, Fla., and Lemoyne, Penn. She has contributed to articles on life insurance and estate planning that have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Journal of Practical Estate Planning and Journal of Retirement Planning.
John Resnick’s commentaries have appeared in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, and he has conducted educational forums at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania since the 1990s. The Resnicks are creators of the syndicated radio program Legends of Success with John Resnick, which shares John’s interviews with America’s leading CEOs, entertainment icons and The Forbes 400.
Weber is president and primary consultant for The Ethical Edge, Inc., in Pleasant Hill, Calif., and holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley with a specialty in insurance and finance. He currently serves as senior adjunct professor of risk and insurance in California Lutheran University’s MBA program.
ABA book catalogs changes in administrative rulemaking, including the Obama and Trump eras
Just published by the American Bar Association, “A Guide to Federal Agency Rulemaking, Sixth Edition” keeps attorneys updated on the most consequential cases before the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), the government’s advising agency on procedural improvements for federal programs, as well as its recent recommendations.
This new edition, updated by ACUS special counsel and former research director Jeffrey Lubbers, continues to provide the most valuable developments in federal regulatory policies since the Administrative Procedure Act. Focusing on “informal” rather than “formal” proceedings, this guide aims to inform agency rule-makers, participants and others interested in the subject with a stage-by-stage view of the rulemaking process. Lubbers includes the newest procedures, substantive changes and stringent requirements from the second term of the Obama administration and the first 500 days of the Trump administration.
“A Guide to Federal Agency Rulemaking, Sixth Edition” is the must-have handbook for understanding federal policy requirements and staying up-to-date on the latest administrative rulemaking changes.
Lubbers is a professor of practice in administrative law at American University’s Washington College of Law, where he has served as a Fellow of Law and Government. He was a contributing author of the first edition of “A Guide to Federal Agency Rulemaking” and revived the publication with the third edition in 1998.
