Audry Thompson is a staff attorney with the Penn State Center for Agricultural and Shale Law (CASL) where she serves as the program director of the Understanding Agricultural Law educational series, supervises law students in the Rural Economic Development Clinic, and authors the Agricultural Law Weekly Review. Her research explores all aspects of agricultural labor issues, and she currently serves as the lead CASL attorney for AgWorks, an agricultural labor-focused educational and consulting grant project between CASL, Penn State Extension, and the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry.
Attorney Thompson holds a Juris Doctor from Penn State Dickinson Law and is a licensed attorney in Pennsylvania. She is also a Ph.D. doctoral candidate at Penn State’s College of Education, and her forthcoming dissertation will examine clinical legal education.
- Confidently advise agricultural employers on the H-2A petition and certification process
- Develop strategies to minimize compliance risk and avoid common wage-and-hour and documentation mistakes
- Better understand how AEWR requirements affect labor costs and workforce planning decisions
- Evaluate whether H-2A is the right solution for a client facing seasonal labor shortages
- Stay current on legal developments affecting agricultural employers and temporary foreign workers
- Labor and employment law attorneys
- Agricultural law attorneys
- Solo and small firm attorneys
- General practitioners
- Attorneys in rural Wisconsin
Wisconsin agriculture is changing, and the law is working to keep up. This series examines the legal landscape across three pressing issues: large-scale solar facility siting, the future of hemp regulation, and the legal framework governing temporary farm labor. Attend one, two, or all three programs to grow your knowledge in this fertile area of legal practice.