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Next Week: Two Free Sessions. Two Topics You Can’t Afford to Wing.
HR professionals are known for their abundant free time and total absence of compliance anxiety, so naturally next week brings two more things to add to the list. AI hiring liability and immigration updates — back to back, Tuesday and Wednesday. Could be worse. Could be a conference.
Two colleagues of mine are tackling exactly these problems, and you should show up to both.
Tuesday, June 23 — “Is Your AI Hiring Tool a Lawsuit Waiting to Happen?” 1:00 PM ET | LinkedIn Live | 25 minutes
Matthew Korn is a partner here at Pierson Ferdinand, and he’s not asking that question rhetorically.
Eighty-three percent of companies now use AI to screen applicants before a human ever reads a résumé. That sounds like efficiency. Here’s the problem: the overall numbers can look perfectly fine while the tool is quietly discriminating against protected groups for specific roles. Stanford researchers found exactly that pattern across four million applications.
If you need a real-world example of where this goes, look at Workday. A federal judge signaled this week that Workday will likely face California discrimination claims in what is reportedly the first class action to broadly target AI hiring software. The original plaintiff says he was passed over for more than 100 jobs — all at companies using Workday — because he’s Black, over 40, and has anxiety and depression. The case has since expanded.
Before you reach for your vendor contract: their compliance assurances don’t transfer liability. If your hiring process discriminates, that’s on you.
This is built for HR leaders, in-house counsel, and C-suite folks — anyone who greenlit an AI hiring tool or is about to. Twenty-five minutes, no fluff.
Wednesday, June 24 — Business Immigration Update 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET | Microsoft Teams
Sanford Posner is a founding partner at Pierson Ferdinand and one of the sharpest business immigration attorneys I know. If you have foreign national employees — or you’re trying to keep them — the next 90 minutes of your Wednesday are spoken for.
Sanford’s covering nonimmigrant and immigrant visas, compliance, green card petitions, and what the rest of 2026 actually looks like from where he’s sitting. Given everything happening in immigration enforcement right now, “what to expect” is doing a lot of work in that agenda description. Worth the hour and a half.
📅 Join link: https://lnkd.in/gGJqAfVa Meeting ID: 293 388 844 221 017 Passcode: f5qY6Dx3
Two events. Two days. Both free. If either topic is sitting in your inbox unresolved, you know what to do.