Ithaca, NY – September 20, 2019 – Greenspoon Marder partner Patricia Gannon and senior counsel Marcela Bermudez will be featured speakers at the New York State Bar Association: Labor & Employment Law Section’s Fall Meeting on September 20th in Ithaca. They will speak on the “Medical and Recreational Marijuana in the Workplace or as a Business” seminar. This seminar will discuss what employers should know regarding employee policy and procedures and regulating its foreign national staff.
The NYSBA is the largest voluntary state bar organization in the nation. The NYSBA’s objectives are:
to cultivate the science of jurisprudence, promote reform in the law, facilitate the administration of justice, and elevate the standards of integrity, honor, professional skill and courtesy in the legal profession. As a link between the state and the individual lawyer, as a force for constructive change, and as a chief exponent of the rights and liberties of the public, the New York State Bar Association stands proud and capable, ready to serve.
Ms. Gannon is a partner in Greenspoon Marder’s Immigration and Naturalization practice group and serves on Management Committee at Greenspoon Marder. Ms. Gannon focuses her practice on business immigration. She advises multi-nationals on employment verification matters and develops various compliance strategies and programs. Ms. Gannon, as a member of the Foreign American Counsel, concentrates her international practice on global immigration and provides outbound assistance to foreign companies. She facilitates and organizes global human resources through the implementation of visa and management of global mobility staff.
Ms. is senior counsel in Greenspoon Marder’s Immigration and Naturalization practice group. Ms. Bermudez focuses her practice on business immigration. She represents multinational companies, as well as individual clients, in connection with a variety of employment-based immigration, non-immigrant matters, I-9 issues, and family-based benefits. Ms. Bermudez also represents foreign investors seeking visa status based on start-up companies and investments, as well as individuals seeking classification for extraordinary ability or national interest waiver.
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