Boardman Clark Welcomes Nicole Schram

Boardman Clark is proud to announce that Nicole Schram has joined the firm.

Nikki will practice with the firm’s Immigration, Business and Real Estate practice groups. Her experience includes helping U.S. companies and their foreign national employees in U.S. immigration matters, including securing temporary work visas, permanent labor certification, and lawful permanent resident status for foreign-born workers and their families.

She is also a skilled advocate when representing individuals and companies of all sizes in real estate and business sale transactions, previously working as in-house counsel to a prominent real estate brokerage.

“Nikki brings extensive experience in representing employers in their immigrations needs and business transactions. Nikki has great substantive expertise matched with an easy-to-work-with style and we look forward to collaborating with her to enhance the value we bring to our clients,” says Attorney Jennifer Mirus, Co-Chair of Boardman Clark’s Labor & Employment Practice Group.

Boardman & Clark LLP is one of Madison’s largest and longest-standing law firms. The firm serves individuals, a wide range of business and corporate clients, school districts and local governments. Its areas of service include litigation, franchise and dealership law, business law, taxation, estate planning and probate, intellectual property, family law, municipal law, banking, labor and employment, land use, elder services, real estate, and school law.

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