Follow-Up: Labor Department Drops Audit of Immigration Firm for "Improper' Instructions to Clients
We commented in an earlier post on a Wall Street Journal Law Blog report that a law firm was being audited by the United States Labor Department for giving “improper” advice to its client.
Now, Law.com, in a post by Mark Hamblett reports that the audit has been quietly dropped (“Labor Department Drops Green Card Audit of Nation’s Largest Immigration Law Firm”).
It may come as a surprise that a government agency presumes to tell any law firm what advice it can give its client. As pointed out in the prior post, the immigration laws and regulations are complex and the Labor Department believed then that its interpretation of the regulation raised an appropriate issue. In any case, that interpretation has, for now, been dropped.
