Bonnie B. Edwards

Bonnie B. Edwards is the knowledge management (“KM”) attorney for Jackson Lewis P.C.’s Immigration practice group, and is based in the White Plains, New York, office of Jackson Lewis P.C.

Bonnie has represented clients in business immigration matters for more than 15 years advising corporate, university and individual clients on all aspects of employment-based immigrant and non-immigrant visa petitions, compliance and mergers, acquisitions and expansion, including outbound immigration matters. Prior to that, she was a labor and employment litigator often working with and advising higher education clients. Bonnie also has experience working in higher education including as the executive director of an independent research institute focused on the study of the history of science and technology. She relies on this experience to enhance her immigration advice practice.

During law school, Bonnie was executive editor of the Boston College Law Review and, after law school, she clerked for the Honorable Raymond J. Pettine in the U.S District Court for the District of Rhode Island.

Published Works

• “Sexual Harassment Investigations:  How Far Can You Go?”, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Publications (2002) [Co-Author]
• “The Lobbying Manual, A Compliance Guide for Lawyers and Lobbyists,” American Bar Association (1993) [Contributing Author]
• “Rehabilitation as the Essence of a BFOQ Defense: Torres v. Wisconsin Department of Health & Social Services,” Boston College Law Review (1989) [Author]