Sarah C. Flannery

Practices

• Labor & Employment

Professional Experience

Sarah's practice focuses on advising employers on global talent management and cross border employment issues. Additionally, she counsels employers on immigration based regulatory compliance. Her immigration practice includes:

• Counseling employers on strategies for sponsoring employees for both immigrant and non-immigrant visas;
• Representing employers before the various agencies of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor;
• Advising companies through audits to determine compliance with DOL and USCIS laws governing employment of global talent;
• Counseling employers on I-9 compliance by developing I-9 policies and providing I-9 training;
• Performing I-9 audits;
• Analyzing relationships between employers and independent contractors who provide workforce services;
• Counseling employers on use of E-Verify;
• Developing immigration related policies, such as how sponsorship decisions will be made; and
• Conducting due diligence to determine immigration issues within corporate transactions.

Education

• Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, J.D., 2002, summa cum laude; graduated first in class, Cleveland State Law Review, Research Editor
• John Carroll University, B.S., 1999, cum laude

• Co-Authored "Managing H-1B Employees In A Down Economy", Employment Law360 website, December 3, 2009
• "All Eyes are on Immigration Enforcement" · Scrap magazine, September/October 2007
• "Telecommuting: Issues to Consider When Your Employees Take the Office Home" · workspan Magazine, April 2007
• "Extending Weingarten to the Nonunion Setting: A History of Oscillation" · Cleveland State Law Review; Vol. 49, No. 1, 2002

• "Legal Perspectives", Sino-American Business Summit presented by Miami University, West Chester, Ohio, September 30, 2008
• Panelist, Young Professional Leadership Summit, Union Club's Cleveland Business Leaders, July 2008
• "I-9 Compliance and National Origin Discrimination", Lorman Education Services; Akron, Ohio, June 2007
• "The Do's and Don'ts of Hiring: Selecting the Best Candidate While Avoiding Legal Pitfalls", Thompson Hine's Labor & Employment Law Update Seminar, June 8, 2006
• "Current Status of Immigration Reform and What It Means for Employers", Thompson Hine's Labor & Employment Law Update Seminar, June 8, 2006

• Selected as a Rising Star by Ohio Super Lawyers magazine 2010 and 2013
• YWCA Woman of Professional Excellence Award, 2009