Nikki Whetstone is a Managing Attorney at Grossman Young & Hammond, where she leads the firm’s high-performing business immigration legal teams, ensuring exceptional client service, efficient case management, and continuous process improvement. With a decade of professional experience, Nikki combines strategic firm leadership with hands-on counsel for complex, high-touch employment visas—including O-1, L-1, H-1B, TN, PERM, EB-1, NIW, J-1, P-3, E-2, and EB-5—as well as family-based immigration (I-130, AOS, consular processing) and employer compliance matters (I-9 audits). She is highly regarded for mentoring and guiding other legal professionals through intricate, fast-evolving immigration issues, including complex Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) and “age-out” strategies. She specializes in developing tailored case strategies and workforce planning for both corporate and individual clients.
Before joining the firm, Nikki served as a business immigration attorney at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP where she represented immigration portfolios for some of the world’s largest multinational corporations within the financial services and technology industries.
During law school, Nikki served as an editor of the International Law Society Digest and Program Coordinator of the Courtroom Advocates Project where she trained and supervised law students advocating for survivors of domestic violence in Family Court.
