Donati Law Attorney to Speak at National Conference in Chicago

Attorney Bryce W. Ashby is speaking on the topic of effectively representing immigrants in employment cases at the National Employment Lawyers Association’s spring seminar in Chicago, Illinois. The seminar, “The Cultural & Linguistic Dimensions of Litigating Cases on Behalf of Immigrant Workers,” focuses on the subtle and obvious cultural differences and language barriers in wage and hour litigation, including assessing a plaintiff’s case, taking and defending depositions and talking to the jury about a client’s claims. Ashby, along with panelists Karen Jo Koonan and J. Roberto Mendoza, will share their personal experience and tips for how cross the cultural and linguistic divide to effectively represent immigrant clients. For more information about NELA’s spring seminar, March 7-March 9, 2013, please visit ( www.nela.org).

The National Employment Lawyers Association Spring Seminar, “United We Stand: Effectively Representing Immigrants in Employment Cases,” will be held at the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza in Chicago, Illinois. The seminar highlights a variety of wage and hour litigation issues and has a variety of panels discussing representing immigrant workers, strategies as well as emerging issues in the area.

Bryce W. Ashby concentrates his practice on representing individual workers in employment law issues. Ashby, who speaks Spanish, focuses much of his practice on representing immigrant workers. He graduated from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 2007 and clerked for Judge Bernice B. Donald from 2008-2009 prior to her elevation to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals from the federal district court in the Western District of Tennessee. During law school, Mr. Ashby interned with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project. Prior to law school, he worked extensively in the Latino community in Memphis, Tennessee and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras.