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Russell C. Ford is an attorney in the Education Practice Group of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo in Boston, Massachusetts. He represents colleges and universities in a wide variety of immigration matters including the employment of foreign national professors, scholars, researchers, and other professional staff. Russell has extensive experience in all nonimmigrant classifications including B-1/B-2, E-1/E-2, F-1, H-1B, H-3, J-1, K, L-1A/L-1B, O, P, Q, R, and TN, as well as with immigrant classifications including Extraordinary Ability, Outstanding Researcher and Professor, Multinational Managers and Executives, National Interest Waivers, Exceptional Ability, Special Handling Labor Certification for Colleges and Universities, Labor Certification (traditional, RIR, and under the new PERM Regulations). Russell also assists colleges and universities with formulating immigration policies and strategies, and with affectively dealing with I-9 compliance and training. Russell has also assisted colleges and universities in employment-related disputes involving a variety of discrimination issues under Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act; student affairs issues including FERPA compliance; regulatory compliance; faculty grievances; Title IX issues; and privacy-related issues including background checks on faculty, staff, and students. Russell serves on the editorial board of the Journal of College and University Law and is a frequent lecturer on issues of immigration and higher education. He was recently named a Georgia SuperLawyers 2005 Rising Star in the fields of Immigration and Schools & Education.
 
Steve Milam For over 30 years Steve Milam served as an Assistant Attorney General for several Washington State public institutions of higher education, the last 23 years of which were at the University of Washington. At the time of his retirement from the Attorney General’s Office he was a Senior Counsel and Assistant Attorney General serving as counsel for the University of Washington Health Sciences and Medical Centers. His clients included the University of Washington Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Community Medicine and Social Work as well as Harborview Medical Center and University of Washington Medical Center. Currently, Mr. Milam is an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical History and Medical Ethics in the University of Washington School of Medicine and is in private practice as an attorney and consultant on issues related to higher education and health law. He is a graduate of Washington State University and obtained his legal education at the University of Oregon. Mr. Milam is a past President of the Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys, and is a past member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Mr. Milam is also an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical History and Ethics of the University of Washington School of Medicine. Mr. Milam has made presentations throughout the country on a variety of medical, legal, and education topics during his career. His articles on legal issues related to the evaluation of student clinical performance and academic dismissal have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Academic Medicine, Journal of College and University Law, Journal of Law and Ethics in Dentistry, and Perspective on Physician Assistant Education – the Official Journal of the Association of Physician Assistant Programs.

Heidi Zimmerman (moderator) has been with the Office of the General Counsel at the Tennessee Board of Regents since 1989 where she is an Associate General Counsel. Her practice, in which she primarily works with 17 of the System’s 46 institutions, involves the many and varied aspects of employment and student matters. She received her J.D. from the University of Tennessee.