With over a decade of practice in employment-based immigration, Meagan Dziura is a Shareholder in the Ogletree Deakins Raleigh office, where she advises employers on sophisticated, forward-looking immigration strategies to attract, retain, and deploy global talent.
Meagan is known for helping organizations build durable, compliant workforce programs that operate effectively amid rapid regulatory change and heightened enforcement risk. She regularly partners with multinational corporations and high-growth employers across industries, including automotive manufacturing, financial services, information technology, clinical research, and higher education. Meagan’s practice focuses on designing scalable immigration programs for high-volume workforces, with particular emphasis on process optimization, data-driven decision-making, and the responsible use of AI and automation to improve efficiency, predictability, and cost control.
As a trusted advisor during periods of disruption, Meagan has guided employers through major immigration inflection points, including administrative policy shifts, evolving executive actions, global travel bans, and public health–driven mobility constraints. She helps clients anticipate risk, adapt quickly to regulatory change, and maintain business continuity while moving critical talent across borders.
Before joining Ogletree Deakins, Meagan practiced at a boutique corporate immigration law firm in the Washington, D.C. area. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from George Mason University and her Juris Doctor from George Mason University School of Law, where she served as Publications Editor of the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy. Meagan is also a regular host and contributor to the Ogletree Deakins podcast series focusing on immigration issues.
