Attorney Spotlight

Barbara V. Melendez

Ms. Melendez is a member of Kirton & McConkie's Employment Law, Immigration and Social Serviced Sections. Her practice focuses primarily on immigration and employer/immigration compliance matters. She represents multi-national corporations, educational institutions, and local employers on compliance issues, inter-company transfers, temporary and permanent work visas, and investment visas. Ms. Melendez also represents individuals and their families before the Department of Homeland Security's Citizenship and Immigration Services, Immigration Customs and Enforcement as well as the Department of Labor, Board of Immigration Appeals, and in federal court. She is a former adjunct Professor of Immigration Law at Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School and is a frequent lecturer on immigration issues. As noted in Utah Business Magazine, she has been recognized by her peers as being one of Utah's Legal Elite and as one of the top Hispanic leaders in the State of Utah.