Raleigh, NC -- Poyner Spruill LLP announced today that Jennifer Parser has become "of counsel" in its Raleigh office. Parser will practice in the areas of immigration law, employment and international law.

Most recently with Ward & Smith, Parser’s practice assists clients with a variety of immigration and employment issues. She helps companies with employment-based nonimmigrant visas, employment and family-based immigrant visas, investor visas, naturalization, and all matters relating to temporary and permanent immigration.  Parser also assists corporate clients with I-9 compliance, E-Verify and Immigration and Customs Enforcement issues.  Additionally, Parser has successfully obtained political asylum status for qualifying individuals.

She is a multilingual attorney, fluent in French and conversant in German and Italian. Parser also holds a distinguished list of certificates in immigration law including: Certificate in Public International Law, International Courts of Justice, The Hague; Certificate on E.E.C. Law, London University; Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales, Certificate in Comparative Private International Law, Geneva, Switzerland. Parser received her law degree from Wake Forest University and her B.A. from Dartmouth College, where she graduated summa cum laude.

Parser is licensed in the state of New York, and is not licensed in North Carolina. Parser can be reached at jparser@poyners.com or (919) 783-2955.