Senior Attorney and Chair of the Compliance Gorup
Amy Wildes is a Senior Attorney in the firm, as well as the Chair of the firm’s Compliance Group.
Amy concentrates her practice mostly in Employer Compliance and I-9 Audits. She has managed many large scale I-9 audits, including assisting employers in response to government subpoenas. She also oversees I-9 maintenance programs for many organizations, including monitoring I-9 retention and destruction. Amy also conducts extensive training programs for legal and HR staff to become familiar with their obligations with regards to verifying the employment eligibility of their employees.
Amy has also worked extensively on extraordinary ability petitions (temporary and permanent) for many of the world’s most renowned individuals including scientists, scholars, singers, dancers, models and athletes, and is well-versed in all aspects of immigration law, having been a member of the firm for more than 30 years.
Amy joined Wildes & Weinberg, P.C. in 1992 as an Associate Attorney. She has worked on all types of cases, including employment-based petitions, family-based applications, and more. Amy is married to Managing Partner Michael Wildes, whom she met in the Immigration Law Class in their law school, and together they have 4 children. She is licensed in the States of New York and New Jersey, and is fluent in Spanish.
JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
B.A. in Psychology from Brandeis University