Barbara Bavis is the Faculty Services Librarian at Duncan School of Law, Lincoln
Memorial University. She received a B.A. from Duke University and a J.D. from University
of North Carolina School of Law, where she served as a Comments Editor for the North
Carolina Law Review. Ms. Bavis began working in the areas of immigration and labor and
employment law as a part of her position with the Human Resources Policy Association
(“HRPA”), one of the nation’s leading employment law advocacy organizations. While
working at HRPA, Ms. Bavis focused much of her work on immigration issues, particularly
how immigration reform bills would affect both governmental agencies and corporate
entities. She then continued her work in these areas for several years as an attorney at
LeClairRyan, a National Law Journal Top 250 firm, where she represented clients in a
range of immigration, labor and employment, and other civil cases. Most recently, she
completed her work for the M.S.L.S. at the Catholic University of America, during which
she performed reference services for the Department of Justice Libraries system.
