Staci M. Jenkins

Practices

• Labor & Employment

Professional Experience

Staci is an associate in the firm's Labor & Employment practice group. She focuses her practice on employment-based immigration, affirmative action plans and general labor and employment issues. Her immigration practice includes:

• Counseling employers on strategies for sponsoring employees for both immigrant and non-immigrant visas;
• Counseling employers on I-9 compliance by developing I-9 policies, providing I-9 training and conducting on-site or remote 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 setting employer/employee financial obligations for various stages of immigrant and non-immigrant sponsorship; and
• Conducting due diligence to determine immigration issues within corporate transactions.

Staci is licensed to practice in Ohio.

Education

• University of Cincinnati College of Law, J.D., 2005, University of Cincinnati Law Review
• Hanover College, B.A., 2002

• Co-Authored "Managing H-1B Employees In A Down Economy", Employment Law360 website, December 3, 2009
• "Though Well-Intentioned, GINA Needs To Be Clarified" · Employment Law360, May 19, 2008
• Co-Author, "Is Your Client Using Illegal Immigrant Workers?" · Inside, A Publication of the Corporate Counsel Section of the New York State Bar Association, Summer 2007

• "ICE is Knocking on Doors - Are You Prepared for an I-9 Audit?", Lorman Education Services, March 17, 2011
• Co-Presented with Stephen Richey, "Seven Deadly Wage and Hour Mistakes", Labor & Employment Seminar, May 20, 2008
• "I-9 Compliance Training", Client HR Summit; Yearly 2007 - Present
• "Hiring Foreign Nationals: Recruitment through the First Day of Employment", Labor & Employment Seminar, May 24, 2007
• "Immigration Reform Update: Impact on Employers", Labor & Employment Seminar, May 24, 2007
• "Navigating the OFCCP Audit", Industry Liaison Group, November 15, 2005