Heat Standard and Heat Illness Prevention Laws: A Review of State and Federal Standards

Lisa Palumbo provides a presentation in an area of her legal expertise titled Heat Standard and Heat Illness Prevention Laws: A Review of State and Federal Standards as part of the Great Lakes Center for Farmworker Health and Wellbeing's August Monthly Research Seminar Series. Lisa Palumbo is currently the Director of the Immigration and Worker’s Rights Practice Group at Legal Aid Chicago where she has worked for over 25 year's. Lisa previously worked on the U.S./Mexico border representing Central American asylum seekers; the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Hong Kong with Vietnamese asylum seekers; and on the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo where the U.S. Government detained Haitian and Cuban asylum seekers. Lisa is an expert in complex immigration cases, including the immigration consequences of criminal convictions, human trafficking cases, and removal proceedings. She has argued cases in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and is fluent in Spanish and work-proficient in French. Lisa was the 2010 recipient of the Jerold Solovy Award and has received awards from the Lawyers Trust Fund and the American Immigration Lawyers’ Association. Lisa is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law and received her undergraduate degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.