Join us for About Workforce Legal Updates: 2026 in Review, where employment law partner Lisa Brauner and business immigration law partner Noah Klug break down some of the recent legal developments shaping your workforce. This webinar cuts through the complexity to highlight recent changes in the law or government policy that directly impact your HR and people strategy. Whether you're navigating new employment regulations or understanding shifts in immigration law, you'll gain the insights you need to keep your organization compliant and competitive. Designed specifically for HR leaders and people strategy professionals, this session delivers practical, high-level guidance on what's changed and why it matters to you.

About the Speakers

Lisa Brauner

Partner at Whiteford Law

Ms. Brauner focuses her practice on labor and employment law. She advises nonprofit organizations, for-profit businesses and social enterprises on all aspects of the employment relationship, including avoidance of litigation, wage/hour compliance, preventing unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, reductions-in-force, lawful hiring and terminations, reasonable accommodation issues, and compliance with federal, state and local laws and regulations. She has significant experience preparing employment, severance, confidentiality, non-compete and non-solicitation agreements, as well as employee handbooks and policies. Ms. Brauner has experience with counseling on employment law aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and on preparation of employment agreements for inbound executives.

Ms. Brauner also conducts human resources compliance audits on issues such as worker classification (exempt/nonexempt employees and independent contractors/employees). She assists employers in developing and implementing systems and procedures to ensure compliance with federal, state and local laws. In addition, she conducts manager and employee training on workplace issues such as preventing discrimination and harassment. She also conducts investigations of complaints of unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Ms. Brauner has extensive experience defending employers in court, including successfully first-chairing both jury and bench trials. In addition, she responds to charges of discrimination before the EEOC and other government agencies, and inquiries from the Department of Labor.

Noah Klug

Managing Shareholder, Klug Law Firm

Noah Klug is the Managing Shareholder of Klug Law Firm PLLC. Internationally recognized as one of the leading business immigration attorneys in the United States, Mr. Klug has nearly 20 years of legal experience, and he and his team provide unmatched representation and support to corporate clients throughout the United States and the globe who have business immigration law needs. He has been recognized as a Thought Leader in the area of corporate immigration law by Who’s Who Legal.

Over the course of his legal career, Mr. Klug has worked for U.S. government immigration agencies as well as with some of the most prominent business immigration law firms in the country. Through his practice, he has served as counsel to prominent multinational corporations around the world.

A leader in his field, Mr. Klug has published many articles on immigration law, and he has conducted lectures and seminars on a variety of immigration legal topics. He has also contributed to various immigration studies, served as editor for major law treatises, and drafted comments to significant U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services policy memoranda. Recognized for his outstanding legal knowledge, he has also appeared on a number of media outlets, where he has offered in-depth legal commentary on various subjects.

In honor of his exemplary professionalism and stellar client service, Mr. Klug has earned an AV Preeminent peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell as well as listings and consistent recognition from Who’s Who Legal, Best Lawyers®, and Super Lawyers®. He has also received Superb, 10 out of 10 client ratings on Avvo.com along with numerous testimonials and referrals from those clients he has served.

A 2001 honors graduate of New York University, Mr. Klug obtained his Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law in 2007, where he was a Dean’s List Scholar. He has served as Chair of the American Bar Association’s Immigration and Naturalization Committee as well as Chair of the Legal Research and Analysis Committee at a prominent corporate immigration law firm. Moreover, he helped establish and served as Chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s Asia Pacific Chapter and served on the organization’s National Business Immigration Committee.