Laurel Bellows, founding principal of The Bellows Law Group, P.C. is an internationally recognized business lawyer, whose law firm offers strategic business counseling and litigation services to entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes, including large corporations. She has extensive experience counseling senior executives and corporations in the United States and globally on employment matters, including employment and severance agreements, executive compensation, workplace disputes, and business conduct standards. Laurel counsel’s corporations relating to anti-trafficking, risk assessment, supply chain and recruiting policies, and cybersecurity. Her firm litigates zealously and efficiently on behalf of employers.

Laurel is the former President of the nearly 400,000-member American Bar Association and former President of the Chicago Bar Association. Laurel is Past President of the International Women’s Forum Chicago, and is a Global Board member of the International Women’s Forum. She served on Minister Gordon Brown’s Global Citizenship Commission to update the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

David Spaulding is the Compliance and Regulatory Practice Counsel at Green and Spiegel’s Philadelphia office. Prior to joining Green and Spiegel, David served twenty-three years as an immigration officer. Experience ranging from border, airport, and seaport inspections, through benefits examination and adjudication, and investigations gives him insights into immigration enforcement not common among private practice immigration attorneys. From 2006 through 2019, David was an investigator with the Office of Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) within USCIS and he supervised FDNS operations in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia from 2012 through 2019. As a USCIS supervisor and manager, he directly oversaw USCIS’ site visit programs and fraud investigations and has direct experience with USCIS policy and program management. David was the National Fraud Branch Chief during a long-term detail in 2014, during which he oversaw the crafting and initial implementation of the Site Visit Protocols on which the present Site Visit Program is grafted.

Green and Spiegel seeks to help companies navigate complex and dynamic compliance and regulatory environments and David is ideally positioned to help clients apply forward-thinking and honed investment in meeting those obligations. David’s approach is proactive, working with healthcare, manufacturing, hospitality, and information technology companies to assess compliance, improve system integrity, and set up the kinds of policies and procedures that make government inspections simple, affordable, and minimally intrusive.