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Counseling Employers Through ICE Audits, IRS Summonses, and Worksite Raids

Equip your practice for the IRS-ICE enforcement era—audit I-9s, close compliance gaps before inspection, and steer employer clients through summonses and worksite raids with confidence.

2026-07-30 13:00:00

2 hours

Program Details

2026-07-30 13:00:00

2026-07-30 13:00:00

2h CLE Credits

2026-07-30 13:00:00

2 hours

Program Details

2026-07-30 13:00:00

Program Details

2026-07-30 13:00:00

Over 1,000+ webinars

2026-07-30 13:00:00

2 hours

Course Overview

The Firewall Between Payroll Data and ICE Is Gone

2026-07-30 13:00:00

The April 2025 IRS-ICE memorandum of understanding collapsed the long-assumed separation between an employer’s tax filings and immigration enforcement — payroll data the IRS once held in confidence now feeds ICE targeting directly.

The March 2026 reclassification compounds the exposure: I-9 errors once curable within a 10-day window are now immediately finable the moment a Notice of Inspection arrives, and the Virtue Memo supersession reshapes how counsel reads ICE’s authority at the worksite door. Employment and immigration attorneys advising construction, hospitality, and staffing clients are already exposed — those still running pre-2025 self-audit protocols risk creating constructive-knowledge liability while triggering parallel DOJ anti-discrimination claims.

This class delivers a pre-NOI counseling framework spanning I-9 self-audit design, E-Verify strategy, and payroll hygiene, plus a warrant taxonomy, the consent-trap training problem, and the California, New York, and Illinois obligations that conflict with federal cooperation demands. Attendees leave able to harden the workforce before inspection and direct a client’s response when the summons or raid lands.

Format

CLE Credit

2h CLE Credits

Level

Intermediate

Length

2

Key topics that will be covered

01
IRS-ICE MOU
The April 2025 data-sharing MOU creates a new enforcement pipeline.
02
I-9 reclassification
March 2026 reclassification eliminates the 10-day correction window for previously curable mistakes.
03
Self-audit
Design I-9 self-audits that remediate errors without creating constructive knowledge liability.
04
E-Verify
E-Verify strategy and what voluntary enrollment does for penalty mitigation.
05
Virtue memo
Working knowledge of the March 2026 Virtue Memo supersession.
06
Warrant taxonomy
Warrant taxonomy governing ICE’s authority to enter non-public areas.

Program schedule

clock 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

Compliance Hardening Before the NOI Arrives

Audit and harden a client’s workforce before the Notice of Inspection lands. This session builds a pre-NOI framework — I-9 self-audit design, payroll hygiene, and E-Verify strategy — that remediates errors without triggering constructive-knowledge or DOJ anti-discrimination liability.

John W. MazzeoJohn W. Mazzeo
Alexander J. MadrakAlexander J. Madrak
clock 2:10 pm - 3:10 pm EST

Responding When the NOI, the Summons, or the Raid Arrives

Advise clients through the three acute scenarios — the I-9 Notice of Inspection, the IRS summons, and the worksite raid. Master the Virtue Memo supersession, ICE’s warrant taxonomy, the consent trap, and conflicting California, New York, and Illinois obligations.

John W. MazzeoJohn W. Mazzeo
Alexander J. MadrakAlexander J. Madrak
John W. Mazzeo

John W. Mazzeo

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Alexander J. Madrak

Alexander J. Madrak

Seyfarth Shaw

John W. Mazzeo

John W. Mazzeo

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

John Mazzeo is Counsel in Seyfarth Shaw’s Immigration practice, admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, where he focuses on employment eligibility verification and immigration compliance drawn in part from his time as a former ICE trial attorney handling worksite enforcement matter.

Education & Credentials

Mazzeo earned his J.D. from Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline School of Law and his B.A. from Ursinus College. He is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and his practice is limited to immigration and nationality law.

Recognition & Leadership

John was appointed to Law360's 2025 Editorial Advisory Board, representing the immigration topic on the strength of his extensive knowledge of Form I-9 and employment eligibility verification law. In 2024, he was appointed Vice-Chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association's Verification and Documentation Liaison Committee after serving as a Member from 2023 to 2024 — one of only twenty attorneys appointed to the selective committee. During his committee tenure, he authored multiple thought leadership pieces relied on by thousands of attorneys advising companies on Form I-9 and E-Verify compliance and was instrumental in responding to proposed regulatory changes.

Professional Involvement

Mazzeo is Vice Chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association's Verification and Documentation Liaison Committee since 2024 and has held leadership roles at the Association of Corporate Counsel, chairing its Corporate and Securities Law Network from 2025 to 2026 after serving as Vice Chair from 2024 to 2025, and chairing the Greater Philadelphia chapter's International Law Section Practice Area Network from 2024 to 2025.

Experience

Before joining Seyfarth, Mazzeo served as an ICE trial attorney specializing in worksite enforcement and later advised one of the nation's largest providers of onboarding services and solutions. Since 2022, he has spoken regularly at AILA, SHRM, and ABA conferences on Form I-9 compliance, E-Verify, and worksite enforcement, and has authored or co-authored more than eight articles on immigration compliance topics since 2023.
Alexander J. Madrak

Alexander J. Madrak

Seyfarth Shaw

Alexander J. Madrak is Counsel in Seyfarth Shaw’s Immigration practice, where he advises employers across the full employment-authorization sphere—Form I-9 audits, immigration-related government discrimination investigations, internal controls testing and assessments, and day-to-day compliance counseling that balances legal risk against business needs. Drawing on both public- and private-sector experience, Alex brings a distinctive perspective shaped by his work on immigration-related discrimination investigations in the I-9 and E-Verify processes within the Department of Justice’s Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, and by managing work authorization risk and compliance for one of the world’s largest companies.

Education & Credentials

Alex earned his J.D. from Villanova University School of Law. His practice focuses on immigration compliance and enforcement, the area in which he has built his career across government, in-house, and law firm roles.

Recognition & Leadership

Alex is a frequent contributor to Seyfarth's immigration compliance commentary, co-authoring widely read client alerts and "Through The Immigration Lens" posts on fast-moving developments—including Temporary Protected Status terminations and related litigation, Form I-9 and E-Verify regulatory updates, and commercial driver's license compliance—that employers and fellow practitioners rely on to track enforcement trends.

Professional Involvement

Alex is an active member of the immigration bar and participates in American Immigration Lawyers Association programming. He is part of Seyfarth's Immigration Compliance & Enforcement specialty group, which counsels employers on Form I-9 and E-Verify compliance, ICE inspections and worksite enforcement, internal immigration assessments, and DOJ–IER anti-discrimination matters.

Experience

Before private practice, Alex worked within the Department of Justice's Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, focusing on immigration-related discrimination investigations in the I-9 and E-Verify processes, and later managed work authorization risk and compliance in-house for one of the world's largest companies. Earlier in his career, he researched and drafted immigration policy memoranda for the field offices of a major nonprofit organization and contributed to updates of the Board of Immigration Appeals Manual. He now advises employers as Counsel in Seyfarth's Immigration Compliance & Enforcement group.
John W. Mazzeo

John W. Mazzeo

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

John Mazzeo is Counsel in Seyfarth Shaw’s Immigration practice, admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, where he focuses on employment eligibility verification and immigration compliance drawn in part from his time as a former ICE trial attorney handling worksite enforcement matter.

Education & Credentials

Mazzeo earned his J.D. from Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline School of Law and his B.A. from Ursinus College. He is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and his practice is limited to immigration and nationality law.

Recognition & Leadership

John was appointed to Law360's 2025 Editorial Advisory Board, representing the immigration topic on the strength of his extensive knowledge of Form I-9 and employment eligibility verification law. In 2024, he was appointed Vice-Chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association's Verification and Documentation Liaison Committee after serving as a Member from 2023 to 2024 — one of only twenty attorneys appointed to the selective committee. During his committee tenure, he authored multiple thought leadership pieces relied on by thousands of attorneys advising companies on Form I-9 and E-Verify compliance and was instrumental in responding to proposed regulatory changes.

Professional Involvement

Mazzeo is Vice Chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association's Verification and Documentation Liaison Committee since 2024 and has held leadership roles at the Association of Corporate Counsel, chairing its Corporate and Securities Law Network from 2025 to 2026 after serving as Vice Chair from 2024 to 2025, and chairing the Greater Philadelphia chapter's International Law Section Practice Area Network from 2024 to 2025.

Experience

Before joining Seyfarth, Mazzeo served as an ICE trial attorney specializing in worksite enforcement and later advised one of the nation's largest providers of onboarding services and solutions. Since 2022, he has spoken regularly at AILA, SHRM, and ABA conferences on Form I-9 compliance, E-Verify, and worksite enforcement, and has authored or co-authored more than eight articles on immigration compliance topics since 2023.
Alexander J. Madrak

Alexander J. Madrak

Seyfarth Shaw

Alexander J. Madrak is Counsel in Seyfarth Shaw’s Immigration practice, where he advises employers across the full employment-authorization sphere—Form I-9 audits, immigration-related government discrimination investigations, internal controls testing and assessments, and day-to-day compliance counseling that balances legal risk against business needs. Drawing on both public- and private-sector experience, Alex brings a distinctive perspective shaped by his work on immigration-related discrimination investigations in the I-9 and E-Verify processes within the Department of Justice’s Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, and by managing work authorization risk and compliance for one of the world’s largest companies.

Education & Credentials

Alex earned his J.D. from Villanova University School of Law. His practice focuses on immigration compliance and enforcement, the area in which he has built his career across government, in-house, and law firm roles.

Recognition & Leadership

Alex is a frequent contributor to Seyfarth's immigration compliance commentary, co-authoring widely read client alerts and "Through The Immigration Lens" posts on fast-moving developments—including Temporary Protected Status terminations and related litigation, Form I-9 and E-Verify regulatory updates, and commercial driver's license compliance—that employers and fellow practitioners rely on to track enforcement trends.

Professional Involvement

Alex is an active member of the immigration bar and participates in American Immigration Lawyers Association programming. He is part of Seyfarth's Immigration Compliance & Enforcement specialty group, which counsels employers on Form I-9 and E-Verify compliance, ICE inspections and worksite enforcement, internal immigration assessments, and DOJ–IER anti-discrimination matters.

Experience

Before private practice, Alex worked within the Department of Justice's Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, focusing on immigration-related discrimination investigations in the I-9 and E-Verify processes, and later managed work authorization risk and compliance in-house for one of the world's largest companies. Earlier in his career, he researched and drafted immigration policy memoranda for the field offices of a major nonprofit organization and contributed to updates of the Board of Immigration Appeals Manual. He now advises employers as Counsel in Seyfarth's Immigration Compliance & Enforcement group.

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