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Session I - From Kitchen to Compliance: Immigration Essentials for Restaurant Owners

Legal Boot Camp: A Four Part Webinar Series for Restaurant Owners

Tuesday, October 28, 2025
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM (EDT)

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Event Details

Running a successful restaurant today means more than great food and service—it requires a solid understanding of employment and immigration compliance. This practical session will walk you through what every restaurant owner needs to know about hiring and retaining a lawful workforce. Topics include:

  • Form I-9 compliance
  • Common visa options for restaurant employees
  • How to prepare for and respond to ICE audits or investigations
  • Proactive strategies to reduce immigration-related risks

Learn how to stay compliant while building a dependable, diverse, and legally authorized team.

Guest Speaker: Isabelle Bibet-Kalinyak, Attorney | Pullman & Comley

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Connecticut Restaurant Association Logo 100 Great Meadow Road, Suite 100
Wethersfield, CT 06109
United States
860.278.8008

Pullman & Comley is a Prime Partner of the Connecticut Restaurant Association. Their attorneys represent many of the region’s most recognized and established restaurants, hotels and tourism-related businesses on a multitude of matters including a full range of labor and employment issues, complex regulatory proceedings, the acquisition or sale of liquor licenses, as well as litigation.

Attorney Ryan O'Donnell of Pullman & Comley focuses his legal practice on the representation of management in labor and employment matters. Ryan specializes in issues unique to the restaurant and hospitality industries and routinely works with restaurants to ensure they remain compliant with an array of legal challenges distinct to the restaurant industry, including wage and hour issues and discrimination/Title VII claims. Ryan serves as chair of the Pullman & Comley's Hospitality practice group and as a member of the CRA Board of Directors.

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