The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) immigration attorneys’ expertise focuses on family-based immigration, humanitarian relief, naturalization and citizenship, immigration enforcement, and removal defense.
Since 1979 we have helped expand the immigration expertise of attorneys, nonprofit staff, criminal defenders, and others assisting immigrant clients.
In addition to authoring the ILRC’s practice manuals, our expert attorneys have been published by Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB), American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), ILW.com, Huffington Post, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Center for Law and Social Policy, The Hill, LexisNexis Emerging Issues, and Fox News Latino.
We have also provided training to National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), American Bar Association Commission on Immigration, Federal Bar Association, The State Bar of California, Legal Aid Association of California, Judicial Council of California and more.
<p>Presented by the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild & the Law Offices of Norton Tooby<br /><br />Make your travel arrangements early and come to San Diego one day before the AILA Conference to join us for a day-long seminar on defending non-citizens for immigration and criminal attorneys.<br /><br />Register Online or download the Registration form and mail/fax it to The Law Offices of Norton Tooby.<br /> Premium Members sign in to receive a 15% discount off your registration fee. <br /><br /><b>Registration Fee:</b> Private Attorney: $295; Student/501(c)(3)/Legal Worker: $150</p><div style="text-align: center;">TO REGISTER: <b>criminalandimmigrationlaw.com</b></div><p><b>QUESTIONS:</b> Contact Jazmin Lopez, Law Offices of Norton Tooby, at 510-601-1300</p><p>Download a complimentary 230-page PDF of Tooby’s Guide to Criminal Immigration Law (2008) from www.NortonTooby.com</p><p><b>Seminar Topics:</b><br />I. Padilla Claims of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel: Overcoming Procedural Obstacles to Success in Vacating Convictions for Counsel’s Failure to Give Accurate Immigration Advice at Plea. Practical suggestions and legal arguments.<br />II. Mandatory Immigration Detention for Crimes: What convictions will trigger mandatory detention during removal proceedings, and how to obtain respondents’ release. <br />III. Working with Criminal Counsel to Obtain Client’s Release From Criminal and Immigration Custody: When criminal counsel should try to obtain client’s release from criminal custody, and how to help criminal counsel arrange a disposition that will allow the client to avoid mandatory immigration detention, so the client can be released from an immigration hold to serve a noncustodial criminal disposition.<br />IV. Case Winning Tips: Favorite criminal dispositions that should not trigger mandatory immigration detention or removal, including recent developments. <br /><br /><b>Top Faculty:</b><br />Dan Kesselbrenner, Director, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, author of Immigration Law and Crimes (2010)</p><p>Norton Tooby, author of Tooby’s Crimes of Moral Turpitude (2008), Tooby’s Guide to Criminal Immigration Law (2008), Criminal Defense of Immigrants (2007), Aggravated Felonies (2006), and Safe Havens: How to Identify and Construct Non-Deportable Convictions (2005).</p><p>Kathy Brady, Senior Staff Attorney, Immigrant Legal Resource Center. Author of Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit (2010).<br /> <br /><br /><br /> </p>
<p><em><strong>Registration for this seminar is now closed.</strong></em></p><p>Fee includes a CD-ROM of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center's <a href="/store/publications/the-u-visa">U Visa Manual</a> (a $150 value)<br /><br /><b>NOTE: </b>If you are an employee of a California IOLTA organization, please contact Sai Suzuki at ssuzuki@ilrc.org for special IOLTA pricing.<br /><br />Sponsored by Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC), ASISTA Immigration Assistance, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, National Lawyers Guild Chapter of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program, Inc. (SDVLP)</p><p>Registration limited to 75 participants on a first-come, first-served basis.</p><p>This seminar will provide two morning tracks, one for relative beginners, one for those who have done U visas and VAWA cases. <br /><br /><strong>Beginning track (morning) will cover:</strong><br />Overview of remedies for survivors of violence<br />Intensive introduction to U visas<br /><br /><strong>Advanced track (morning) will cover:</strong><br />Choosing the best relief<br />U derivative and family member issues<br />Cases in proceedings (VAWA as well as Us)<br /><br /><strong>Afternoon session for all covers:</strong><br />Working with law enforcement (certifications)<br />Overcoming inadmissibility<br />Adjustment of status<br />Consular processing<br /><br /><b>Speakers:</b><br />Susan Bowyer (Immigration Center for Women and Children – San Francisco)<br />Alisa Daubenspeck (Central American Resource Center – Los Angeles)<br />Jessica Farb (Immigration Center for Women and Children – San Francisco)<br />Ellen Kemp (National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild)<br />Sally Kinoshita (Immigrant Legal Resource Center)<br />Sonia Parras (ASISTA Immigration Assistance)<br />Gail Pendleton (ASISTA Immigration Assistance)<br />Christine Popp (Immigrants' and Language Rights Center, Indiana Legal Services, Inc.)<br />Catherine Ward-Seitz (Bay Area Legal Aid)<br /><br /><b>Parking:</b><br />There is parking in the Padres Parkade, at the rate of $1 per hour (right across the street from the school).<br /><br /><b><i>I am not a member of the California State Bar. Will I receive CLE credit for participating in your seminars & webinars?</i></b><br />We will provide a Uniform Certificate of Attendance after the session, which you can submit to your state bar. Please contact your state bar for details on whether or not credit is acceptable.<br /><br /> </p>
<p>This seminar is a six-session course on Tuesdays: September 27, October 4, 11, 18, 25 and November 1. 2011.</p><p><strong>NOTE:</strong> This seminar is limited to attorneys and BIA Level 2 Accredited Representatives. Maximum capacity of 20 registrants on a first-come, first-served basis of when we receive your registration with full payment.</p><p>Designed for a lawyer who wants to boost his or her knowledge and confidence, this course covers the fundamental concepts and elements of immigration law and procedures. The program will cover all major themes of immigration law, including constitutional issues, grounds of inadmissibility and deportability and related procedures, waivers and relief from removal, the various immigration preference categories, nonimmigrant classes, refugees and asylum, adjustment of status, administrative appeals and judicial review, and the acquisition of American citizenship.<br /> </p><p><strong>Presenter:</strong> Don Ungar, Of Counsel to Simmons & Ungar and the ILRC<br />With more than 40 years of immigration law experience, Don has litigated numerous cases<br />before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the federal district courts, courts of appeal and the<br />United States Supreme Court. He was the recipient of the first Jack Wasserman Award for<br />excellence in litigation by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, as well as the<br />Phillip Burton Immigration and Civil Rights Award.</p>
<p><em><strong>THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED!</strong></em></p><p><strong>Dates: </strong>Thursdays & Fridays, March 1, 2, 8 & 9, 2012<br />March 1 & 8, 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm<br />March 2 & 9, 9:30 am – 1:30 pm</p><p>Designed for a lawyer who wants to boost his or her knowledge and confidence, this course covers the fundamental concepts and elements of immigration law and procedures. The program will cover all major themes of immigration law, including constitutional issues, grounds of inadmissibility and deportability and related procedures, waivers and relief from removal, the various immigration preference categories, nonimmigrant classes, refugees and asylum, adjustment of status, administrative appeals and judicial review, and the acquisition of American citizenship.</p><p><strong>NOTE:</strong> This seminar is limited to attorneys and BIA Level 2 Accredited Representatives. Maximum capacity of 20 registrants on a first-come, first-served basis of when we receive your registration with full payment.</p><p><strong>Presenter: Don Ungar</strong>, Of Counsel to Simmons & Ungar and the ILRC<br />With more than 40 years of immigration law experience, Don has litigated numerous cases before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the federal district courts, courts of appeal and the United States Supreme Court. He was the recipient of the first Jack Wasserman Award for excellence in litigation by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, as well as the<br />Phillip Burton Immigration and Civil Rights Award.</p>
<p>Are you a lawyer who wants to learn more about representing clients in removal proceedings? Do you want to represent your clients with the confidence that comes from a better understanding of the IMMIGRATION COURT practices and procedures? This seminar will teach you the nuts and bolts of representing persons in removal proceedings and provide you with the skills to present a successful case before the Immigration Court.</p><p><br />Topics covered include:<br />● Chronology of removal proceedings: Master calendar and individual hearings<br />● How to respond to a Notice to Appear (NTA), including challenges to proper service<br />● Things you need to know if the person is detained, including bond pre-NTA and post-NTA filing<br />● Documents necessary for different kinds of cases<br />● Voluntary Departure, why and when you should ask for it<br />● Automatic withdrawal of voluntary departure on appeal & necessary advisals<br />● How to prepare your client for an Individual Hearing<br />● Other relevant issues including fingerprinting, local operating rules and how to find them, how to read court files and<br />documents, and filing applications with the Service Centers in the context of removal proceedings</p><p><strong>Presenters:</strong></p><p><strong>Angie Junck</strong>, ILRC Staff Attorney</p><p>Angie works on the relationship between immigration and criminal law and is a co-author of ILRC's publication, <a href="http://www.ilrc.org/publications/defending-immigrants-in-the-ninth-circ… Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit: The Impact of Crimes under California and Other State Laws</em></a>. Her efforts to mitigate the difficult immigration consequences for criminal convictions of immigrants is at the core of the ILRC's Defending Immigrants Project to assist public defenders and the Immigrant Justice Network, a project to build a movement to shift public perception of immigrants in the criminal justice system. Angie is a co-chair of the Detention Watch Network's Public Awareness Committee and is on the Advisory Board of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners.</p><p><strong>Raha Jorjani</strong> is a Staff Attorney and Lecturer in the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic. Raha has defended immigrants from detention and deportation before the Immigration Courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and Federal Courts including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Raha focuses primarily on the intersection between Immigration and Criminal Law. In addition to representing immigrants detained primarily on the basis of criminal convictions, she regularly advises and trains public defenders on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. Raha also provides technical assistance and training to members of the immigration bar on topics related to detention and deportation. Prior to joining the UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic in Fall 2007, she was a Staff Attorney with the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project in Arizona. Since October 2009, she has served as In-House Immigration Counsel to the Alameda County Public Defender Office, a cutting-edge defender model that is one of the few of its kind being implemented in California.</p><p><strong>Sue Griffin</strong>, Catholic Charities Esperanza Project</p><p><strong>Erin Quinn</strong>, ILRC Staff Attorney</p><p> </p>
<p>Are you a lawyer who wants to learn more about representing clients in removal proceedings? Do you want to represent your clients with the confidence that comes from a better understanding of the IMMIGRATION COURT practices and procedures? This seminar will teach you the nuts and bolts of representing persons in removal proceedings and provide you with the skills to present a successful case before the Immigration Court.</p><p><br />Topics covered include:<br />● Chronology of removal proceedings: Master calendar and individual hearings<br />● How to respond to a Notice to Appear (NTA), including challenges to proper service<br />● Things you need to know if the person is detained, including bond pre-NTA and post-NTA filing<br />● Documents necessary for different kinds of cases<br />● Voluntary Departure, why and when you should ask for it<br />● Automatic withdrawal of voluntary departure on appeal & necessary advisals<br />● How to prepare your client for an Individual Hearing<br />● Other relevant issues including fingerprinting, local operating rules and how to find them, how to read court files and<br />documents, and filing applications with the Service Centers in the context of removal proceedings</p><p><strong>Presenters:</strong></p><p><strong>Erin Quinn</strong>, ILRC Staff Attorney</p><p>Other Presenter TBD.</p>
<p>Recently, the Ninth Circuit, the BIA, and the Supreme Court have published decisions that make it easier for an immigrant to qualify for relief from removal, despite criminal convictions. This interactive training will cover how to prove that your client is statutorily eligible to apply for relief. We will focus on three applications: LPR cancellation, § 212(h) relief, and the former § 212(c) relief. In each case, we will review the basics and then move to recent developments and emerging defense strategies.</p><p>Some examples of topics include:</p><p>● Update on when the seven-year clock starts and stops for LPR cancellation</p><p>● How the Supreme Court’s decision in Judulang expands who can apply for the former § 212(c) waiver</p><p>● When the LPR bar to applying for § 212(h) does not apply to LPRs</p><p>● Update on burden of proof issues, and why the government still bears the burden of proving that a conviction is a bar to relief</p><p>● Checklist to spot eligibility for relief</p><p><b>Presenters:</b></p><p><b>Kathy Brady</b>, ILRC Senior Staff Attorney<br />Her expertise includes the immigration consequences of criminal convictions; issues affecting immigrant children and mixed families; immigration consultant and consumer fraud; family immigration; and trial skills. She is the primary author of ILRC's <a href="http://www.ilrc.org/publications/defending-immigrants-in-the-ninth-circ… Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit </i></a>(formerly <i>California Criminal Law and Immigration</i>), and for many years was co-author of the section on defending noncitizens in the CEB manual, <i>California Criminal Law: Procedure and Practice</i>. She is a co-author of the Arizona Quick Reference Guide to Immigration Consequences of Convictions, and also the author of the California Reference Guide. She is a co-founder of the Defending Immigrants Partnership and the Immigrant Justice Network. Kathy authored briefs in key Ninth Circuit cases on immigration and crimes, and argued <i>Lujan-Armendariz v. Ashcroft</i>. In 2007, she received the Carol King award for advocacy from the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. She is currently a Commissioner to the ABA Commission on Immigration.</p><p><strong>Erin Quinn</strong>, ILRC Staff Attorney</p><p> </p>
<div class="field field-type-text field-field-body-text"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><div class="field field-type-text field-field-body-text"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><div class="field field-type-text field-field-body-text"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><div class="field field-type-text field-field-body-text"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><div class="field field-type-text field-field-body-text"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"><p>Recently, the Ninth Circuit, the BIA, and the Supreme Court have published decisions that make it easier for an immigrant to qualify for relief from removal, despite criminal convictions. This interactive training will cover how to prove that your client is statutorily eligible to apply for relief. We will focus on three applications: LPR cancellation, § 212(h) relief, and the former § 212(c) relief. In each case, we will review the basics and then move to recent developments and emerging defense strategies.</p><p>Some examples of topics include:</p><p>● Update on when the seven-year clock starts and stops for LPR cancellation</p><p>● How the Supreme Court’s decision in Judulang expands who can apply for the former § 212(c) waiver</p><p>● When the LPR bar to applying for § 212(h) does not apply to LPRs</p><p>● Update on burden of proof issues, and why the government still bears the burden of proving that a conviction is a bar to relief</p><p>● Checklist to spot eligibility for relief</p><p><b>Presenters:</b></p><p><b>Kathy Brady</b>, ILRC Senior Staff Attorney<br />Her expertise includes the immigration consequences of criminal convictions; issues affecting immigrant children and mixed families; immigration consultant and consumer fraud; family immigration; and trial skills. She is the primary author of ILRC's <a href="http://www.ilrc.org/publications/defending-immigrants-in-the-ninth-circ… Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit </i></a>(formerly <i>California Criminal Law and Immigration</i>), and for many years was co-author of the section on defending noncitizens in the CEB manual, <i>California Criminal Law: Procedure and Practice</i>. She is a co-author of the Arizona Quick Reference Guide to Immigration Consequences of Convictions, and also the author of the California Reference Guide. She is a co-founder of the Defending Immigrants Partnership and the Immigrant Justice Network. Kathy authored briefs in key Ninth Circuit cases on immigration and crimes, and argued <i>Lujan-Armendariz v. Ashcroft</i>. In 2007, she received the Carol King award for advocacy from the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. She is currently a Commissioner to the ABA Commission on Immigration.</p><p><strong>Erin Quinn</strong>, ILRC Staff Attorney</p><p> </p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<p>Designed for the lawyer who wants to enhance his or her knowledge, this course covers the fundamental concepts and elements of immigration law and procedures. The program will examine all major themes of immigration law, including constitutional issues, grounds of inadmissibility & deportability and related procedures, waivers and relief from removal, the various immigration preference categories, nonimmigrant classes, refugees and asylum, adjustment of status, administrative appeals and judicial review, and the acquisition of American citizenship. This seminar is limited to attorneys and BIA Level 2 Accredited Representatives. The maximum capacity is 20 registrants on a first-come, first-served basis with full payment.</p><p><strong>Dates:</strong> September 13, 19, 26, October 3, 10, 17</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Duane Morris LLP*, Suite 2200, One Market Plaza, Spear Tower, San Francisco, CA 94105<br />*Please be prepared to present a photo ID to the security guard.</p><p><strong>Presenter:</strong></p><p><strong>Don Ungar</strong>, Of Counsel to Simmons & Ungar and the ILRC<br />With more than 40 years of immigration law experience, Don has litigated numerous cases before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the federal district courts, courts of appeal and the United States Supreme Court. He was the recipient of the first Jack Wasserman Award for excellence in litigation by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, as well as the Phillip Burton Immigration and Civil Rights Award.</p>
<p><em><strong>Please note that this seminar was originally scheduled for 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM.</strong></em></p><p>During this seminar, U visa experts and seasoned practitioners will share their experience and lead a discussion on eligibility and application procedures for U nonimmigrants, including tips and best practices for documenting a case, proving substantial harm, addressing inadmissibility issues including crimes, responding to RFEs, including derivative family members, extending status, and obtaining law enforcement certification. Although we will provide an overview of the basic requirements, much of our time will be spent going in to the complexities of eligibility and the application procedure. We will also be joined by Los Angeles law enforcement agencies to discuss strategies and requirements for obtaining certification for clients.</p><p><strong>Co-Sponsors:</strong> Asian Pacific American Legal Center, CARECEN, Immigration Center for Women and Children, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, Public Counsel and Southwestern Law School Immigration Law Clinic</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Southwestern Law School, 3050 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90010</p><p><strong>Presenters:</strong></p><p><strong>Sally Kinoshita</strong>, ILRC Deputy Director & Staff Attorney<br />Sally is the principal author of the ILRC publication entitled, <em>The U Visa: Obtaining Immigration Status for Immigrant Victims of Crime</em> and the co-author of the ILRC publications, <em>The VAWA Manual: Immigration Relief for Abused Immigrants</em>; <em>Special Immigrant Juvenile Status for Children Under Juvenile Court Jurisdiction</em> and <em>Immigration Benchbook for Juvenile and Family Court Judges</em>.</p><p><strong>Scott Whelan</strong>, USCIS Adjudications Officer (Policy), Office of Policy and Strategy in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Department of Homeland Security. <br />Mr. Whelan manages policy development and implementation of immigration relief for victims of human trafficking and other qualifying crimes through the U nonimmigrant status. Mr. Whelan also conducts training and outreach to Federal, State, and local law enforcement along with NGO and civilian organizations on the U nonimmigrant status. Before joining the Office of Policy and Strategy in Washington, Mr. Whelan was an Adjudications Officer at the USCIS Chicago District Office, conducting adjustment and naturalization interviews. Mr. Whelan holds a J.D. from Michigan State University College of Law and a B.A. in Criminal Justice from Indiana University.</p><p><strong>Nora Phillips</strong>, CARECEN<br />Nora Phillips is a 2007 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law. Nora was an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago where she focused on the U Visa, for immigrant victims of violent crimes. Nora is currently a Staff Attorney at the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) in Los Angeles, where she continues to specialize in the U Visa as well as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals cases for undocumented immigrant youth.</p><p><strong>Michelle Carey</strong>, University of Southern California as presenters<br />Michelle has provided direct representation to hundreds of undocumented survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and other violent crimes in her previous work as a Staff Attorney at the Immigration Center for Women and Children, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, and the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law. Michelle is the author of “You Don’t Know if They’ll Let You Out in One Day, One Year, or Ten Years…’ Indefinite Detention of Immigrants after Zadvydas v. Davis,” published by the Chicano-Latino Law Review. Michelle received her B.A. from Cornell University and her J.D. and M.A. in Urban Planning from UCLA. While at UCLA School of Law, Michelle completed the Epstein Public Interest Program in Law and Policy and graduated with a concentration in Critical Race Studies.</p>
<p><em><strong>Please note that this seminar was originally scheduled for 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.</strong></em></p><p>This advanced seminar will include a panel of U Visa experts and seasoned practitioners to discuss the issues that come up for advocates representing more complex cases. This will include issues related to crimes and other inadmissibility issues committed post-U approval, revocation and deportability, adjustment of status, travel and consular processing, removal issues and petitioning qualifying family members with the I-929.</p><p><strong>Co-Sponsors:</strong> Asian Pacific American Legal Center, CARECEN, Immigration Center for Women and Children, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, Public Counsel and Southwestern Law School Immigration Law Clinic</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Southwestern Law School, 3050 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90010</p><p><strong>Presenters:</strong></p><p><strong>Sally Kinoshita</strong>, ILRC Deputy Director & Staff Attorney<br />Sally is the principal author of the ILRC publication entitled, <em>The U Visa: Obtaining Immigration Status for Immigrant Victims of Crime</em> and the co-author of the ILRC publications, <em>The VAWA Manual: Immigration Relief for Abused Immigrants</em>; <em>Special Immigrant Juvenile Status for Children Under Juvenile Court Jurisdiction</em> and <em>Immigration Benchbook for Juvenile and Family Court Judges</em>.</p><p><strong>Scott Whelan</strong>, USCIS Adjudications Officer (Policy), Office of Policy and Strategy in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Department of Homeland Security. <br />Mr. Whelan manages policy development and implementation of immigration relief for victims of human trafficking and other qualifying crimes through the U nonimmigrant status. Mr. Whelan also conducts training and outreach to Federal, State, and local law enforcement along with NGO and civilian organizations on the U nonimmigrant status. Before joining the Office of Policy and Strategy in Washington, Mr. Whelan was an Adjudications Officer at the USCIS Chicago District Office, conducting adjustment and naturalization interviews. Mr. Whelan holds a J.D. from Michigan State University College of Law and a B.A. in Criminal Justice from Indiana University.</p><p><strong>Nancy Reyes-Rubi</strong>, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA)<br />Nancy J. Reyes-Rubi, a senior staff attorney at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) for the last 11+ years has assisted hundreds of domestic violence victims achieve safety through VAWA, U visas, T visas and other available remedies. She provides technical assistance to other agencies across the state. She is also very involved with local immigration networks (VAWA and Trafficking) that focus on making changes at the local level to help improve procedures for immigration clients, as well as on a national level. Mrs. Reyes-Rubi has provided several U visa & VAWA trainings to community-based organizations, government agencies, universities and large private law firms interested in pro-bono VAWA cases. She is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar’s Immigration Section.</p><p><strong>Monica Kane</strong>, Neighborhood Legal Services<br />Monica Kane, Staff Attorney, Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County At NLSLA, Monica provides free legal assistance and representation in immigration matters to low-income clients, many of whom are survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Monica was previously with NLSLA from 2002 to 2005. Before rejoining NLSLA in 2009, she worked with asylees and refugees at Jewish Family and Children's Services in San Francisco and practiced employment-based immigration law with Haight Law Group, PLC, in Los Angeles. Monica holds a J.D. from UCLA School of Law.</p><p><strong>Cynthia Lucas</strong>, Immigration Center for Women and Children - Cynthia is a Staff Attorney in the Immigration Center for Women and Children’s Los Angeles Office. Cynthia received her B.A. from the UC Berkeley, and her J.D. from the University of San Francisco, School of Law. She has been dedicated to practicing immigration law, primarily focused on representing vulnerable immigrants in VAWA, U visa, T Visa, I-751, and Special Immigrant Juvenile matters. Cynthia is active in immigration and child advocacy groups in the Los Angeles area, and presently serves on the Board of the Southern California Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.</p><p><strong>Gina Amato Lough</strong>, Public Counsel - Gina received her Juris Doctor and Masters Degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001. In her current capacity as Senior Staff Attorney at Public Counsel’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, Ms. Amato Lough assists immigrant victims of domestic violence, human trafficking, and other serious crimes in obtaining lawful status in the U.S. She is dedicated to using the legal process to serve and empower disenfranchised communities and is honored to assist those most in need.</p>
<p>Are you a lawyer who wants to learn more about representing clients in removal proceedings? Do you want to represent your clients with the confidence that comes from a better understanding of the Immigration Court practices and procedures? This seminar will teach you the nuts and bolts of representing persons in removal proceedings, and provide you with the skills to present a successful case before the Immigration Court. Topics covered:</p><ul><li>Chronology of removal proceedings: Master calendar and individual hearings</li><li>How to respond to a Notice to Appear (NTA), including challenges to proper service</li><li>Overview of the bond process for detained clients</li><li>Overview of Relief Available in Immigration Court and what you need to file</li><li>Voluntary Departure, what you should know before you request it</li><li>Filing Motions to Communicate with the Court</li><li>Other relevant issues including fingerprinting, local operating rules and how to find them, filing applications in court</li></ul><p><strong>Location:</strong> Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105</p><p><strong>Presenters:</strong></p><p><strong>Angie Junck</strong>, ILRC Staff Attorney<br />At the ILRC, Angie coordinates the Immigrant Youth Project to provide advocacy on behalf of immigrant youth in order to improve their lives and ensure their fair and humane treatment in the United States. She provides trainings, technical assistance, and written materials to immigrant youth and their families, as well as to decision makers and service providers, such as social workers, dependency attorneys, juvenile justice officials, legislators, juvenile and family court judges, and community based groups and advocates. She is an author of various ILRC publications, including <em>A Guide for Immigration Advocates</em>, <em>Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit</em>, and <em>Naturalization and U.S. Citizenship</em>.</p><p><strong>Erin Quinn</strong>, ILRC Staff Attorney<br />Erin brings to ILRC over 8 years of experience as an immigration defense attorney and holds a joint degree in law and public policy (JD/MPP) from the University of Michigan. Prior to opening her own practice in 2007, Ms. Quinn represented immigrants as an associate at the Law Office of Robert B. Jobe. Her experience in immigration law and policy includes working as a fellow for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, EU headquarters in Belgium; clerking for the Immigration Court of San Francisco; and guest lecturer at CSU Eastbay.</p><p><strong>Co-Presenter:</strong></p><p><strong>Chelsea HaleyNelson</strong>, Partner - HaleyNelson & Heilbrun, LLP<br />Ms. HaleyNelson is a founding partner of HaleyNelson & Heilbrun, LLP, a small law firm in downtown Oakland, California. Her practice focuses on complex immigration removal defense. Ms. HaleyNelson serves as a volunteer attorney with the National Center for Lesbian Rights’ immigration program representing LGBT asylum applicants, a mentor attorney for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights pro bono asylum program, a pro bono attorney for BASF’s VIP program and co-counsels with pro bono firms representing victims of worksite enforcement raids. She is also co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco-Bay Area chapter’s Immigration Committee, Executive Office for Immigration Review Liaison for the American Immigration Lawyers Association of Northern California, and Co-Chair of BALIF, the Bay Area’s LGBT Bar Association.</p>
<p>Have you been practicing removal defense, but want to hone your defense skills for immigration court? Do you want to think more strategically for you clients? For those that have the basic procedure down, this afternoon session will focus on complex issues in representing detained clients and evidentiary issues. Gain confidence in contesting removability, mandatory detention, and file that motion to suppress! Topics covered:</p><ul><li>Things you need to know if the person is detained, including bond pre-NTA & post-NTA filing, and who is properly subject to mandatory detention</li><li>Categorical Approach and contesting criminal charges of removability— is the I-213 sufficient evidence for the government?</li><li>Motions to Terminate</li><li>Motions to Suppress Evidence in Immigration Court</li><li>Preparing your client when there are criminal evidentiary issues</li></ul><p><strong>Location:</strong> Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105</p><p><strong>Presenters:</strong></p><p><strong>Angie Junck</strong>, ILRC Staff Attorney<br />At the ILRC, Angie coordinates the Immigrant Youth Project to provide advocacy on behalf of immigrant youth in order to improve their lives and ensure their fair and humane treatment in the United States. She provides trainings, technical assistance, and written materials to immigrant youth and their families, as well as to decision makers and service providers, such as social workers, dependency attorneys, juvenile justice officials, legislators, juvenile and family court judges, and community based groups and advocates. She is an author of various ILRC publications, including <em>A Guide for Immigration Advocates</em>, <em>Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit</em>, and <em>Naturalization and U.S. Citizenship</em>.</p><p><strong>Erin Quinn</strong>, ILRC Staff Attorney<br />Erin brings to ILRC over 8 years of experience as an immigration defense attorney and holds a joint degree in law and public policy (JD/MPP) from the University of Michigan. Prior to opening her own practice in 2007, Ms. Quinn represented immigrants as an associate at the Law Office of Robert B. Jobe. Her experience in immigration law and policy includes working as a fellow for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, EU headquarters in Belgium; clerking for the Immigration Court of San Francisco; and guest lecturer at CSU Eastbay.</p><p><strong>Co-Presenters:</strong></p><p><strong>Raha Jorjani</strong>, Staff Attorney and Lecturer - UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic<br />Raha has defended immigrants from detention and deportation before the Immigration Courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and Federal Courts including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Raha focuses primarily on the intersection between Immigration and Criminal Law. In addition to representing immigrants detained primarily on the basis of criminal convictions, she regularly advises and trains public defenders on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. Raha also provides technical assistance and training to members of the immigration bar on topics related to detention and deportation. Prior to joining the UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic in Fall 2007, she was a Staff Attorney with the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project in Arizona. Since October 2009, she has served as In-House Immigration Counsel to the Alameda County Public Defender Office, a cutting-edge defender model that is one of the few of its kind being implemented in California.</p><p><strong>Chelsea HaleyNelson</strong>, Partner - HaleyNelson & Heilbrun, LLP<br />Ms. HaleyNelson is a founding partner of HaleyNelson & Heilbrun, LLP, a small law firm in downtown Oakland, California. Her practice focuses on complex immigration removal defense. Ms. HaleyNelson serves as a volunteer attorney with the National Center for Lesbian Rights’ immigration program representing LGBT asylum applicants, a mentor attorney for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights pro bono asylum program, a pro bono attorney for BASF’s VIP program and co-counsels with pro bono firms representing victims of worksite enforcement raids. She is also co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco-Bay Area chapter’s Immigration Committee, Executive Office for Immigration Review Liaison for the American Immigration Lawyers Association of Northern California, and Co-Chair of BALIF, the Bay Area’s LGBT Bar Association.</p>
<p><em><strong>Registration for this seminar is still being accepted, however since we are past the cut-off date there is no guarantee that you will receive a copy of the presentation materials.</strong></em></p><p>Are you a lawyer who wants to learn more about representing clients in removal proceedings? Do you want to represent your clients with the confidence that comes from a better understanding of the Immigration Court practices and procedures? This seminar will teach you the nuts and bolts of representing persons in removal proceedings, and provide you with the skills to present a successful case before the Immigration Court. Topics covered:</p><ul><li>Chronology of removal proceedings: Master calendar and individual hearings</li><li>How to respond to a Notice to Appear (NTA), including challenges to proper service</li><li>Overview of the bond process for detained clients</li><li>Overview of Relief Available in Immigration Court and what you need to file</li><li>Voluntary Departure, what you should know before you request it</li><li>Filing Motions to Communicate with the Court</li><li>Other relevant issues including fingerprinting, local operating rules and how to find them, filing applications in court</li></ul><p><strong>Location:</strong> MALDEF, 634 S. Spring Street, 11th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90014</p><p><strong>Presenter:</strong></p><p><strong>Erin Quinn</strong>, ILRC Staff Attorney<br />Erin brings to ILRC over 8 years of experience as an immigration defense attorney and holds a joint degree in law and public policy (JD/MPP) from the University of Michigan. Prior to opening her own practice in 2007, Ms. Quinn represented immigrants as an associate at the Law Office of Robert B. Jobe. Her experience in immigration law and policy includes working as a fellow for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, EU headquarters in Belgium; clerking for the Immigration Court of San Francisco; and guest lecturer at CSU Eastbay.</p><p><strong>Co-Presenter:</strong></p><p><strong>Caitlin Williams</strong>, Program Director, Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project of Catholic Charities of Los Angeles<br />Esperanza is a non-profit law office that serves especially vulnerable immigrants, particularly those in immigration detention in the Los Angeles metropolitan region, who cannot afford private counsel.</p>
<p><em><strong>Registration for this seminar is still being accepted, however since we are past the cut-off date there is no guarantee that you will receive a copy of the presentation materials.</strong></em></p><p>Have you been practicing removal defense, but want to hone your defense skills for immigration court? Do you want to think more strategically for you clients? For those that have the basic procedure down, this afternoon session will focus on complex issues in representing detained clients and evidentiary issues. Gain confidence in contesting removability, mandatory detention, and file that motion to suppress! Topics covered:</p><ul><li>Things you need to know if the person is detained, including bond pre-NTA & post-NTA filing, and who is properly subject to mandatory detention</li><li>Categorical Approach and contesting criminal charges of removability— is the I-213 sufficient evidence for the government?</li><li>Motions to Terminate</li><li>Motions to Suppress Evidence in Immigration Court</li><li>Preparing your client when there are criminal evidentiary issues</li></ul><p><strong>Location:</strong> MALDEF, 634 S. Spring Street, 11th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90014</p><p><strong>Presenter:</strong></p><p><strong>Erin Quinn</strong>, ILRC Staff Attorney</p><p>Erin brings to ILRC over 8 years of experience as an immigration defense attorney and holds a joint degree in law and public policy (JD/MPP) from the University of Michigan. Prior to opening her own practice in 2007, Ms. Quinn represented immigrants as an associate at the Law Office of Robert B. Jobe. Her experience in immigration law and policy includes working as a fellow for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, EU headquarters in Belgium; clerking for the Immigration Court of San Francisco; and guest lecturer at CSU Eastbay.</p><p><strong>Co-Presenters:</strong></p><p><strong>Stacy Tolchin,</strong> Law Offices of Stacy Tolchin<br />Ms. Tolchin has practiced exclusively in immigration law since 2001. Prior to establishing the Law Offices of Stacy Tolchin in December 2010, Stacy was a staff attorney with Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale, LLP, a San Francisco-based immigration law firm. Ms. Tolchin specializes in complex deportation cases and primarily litigates before the Courts of Appeals and United States District Courts, as well as the Executive Office for Immigration Review. She also speaks regularly at conferences regarding federal court immigration litigation, removal defense, and national security immigration cases.</p><p><strong>Caitlin Williams</strong>, Program Director, Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project of Catholic Charities of Los Angeles<br />Esperanza is a non-profit law office that serves especially vulnerable immigrants, particularly those in immigration detention in the Los Angeles metropolitan region, who cannot afford private counsel.<br /><strong> </strong></p>
<p>Designed for attorneys that want to enhance their knowledge, this course covers the fundamental concepts and elements of immigration law and procedures. The program will examine all major themes of immigration law, including constitutional issues, grounds of inadmissibility & deportability and related procedures, waivers and relief from removal, the various immigration preference categories, nonimmigrant classes, refugees and asylum, adjustment of status, administrative appeals and judicial review, and the acquisition of American citizenship. This seminar is limited to attorneys and BIA Level 2 Accredited Representatives. The maximum capacity is 20 registrants on a first-come, first-served basis with full payment. This is a six-week training series; you must attend each date listed above from 3:30 pm – 7:00 pm to receive the total MCLE credits.</p><p><strong>Dates:</strong> March 6, 13, 20, 27 & April 3, 10 Time: 3:30 pm – 7:00 pm Pacific Time</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Duane Morris LLP*, Suite 2200, One Market Plaza, Spear Tower, San Francisco, CA 94105<br />*Please be prepared to present a photo ID to the security guard.</p><p><strong>Presenter:</strong></p><p><strong>Don Ungar</strong>, Of Counsel to Simmons & Ungar and the ILRC<br />With more than 40 years of immigration law experience, Don has litigated numerous cases before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the federal district courts, courts of appeal and the United States Supreme Court. He was the recipient of the first Jack Wasserman Award for excellence in litigation by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, as well as the Phillip Burton Immigration and Civil Rights Award.</p>
<p>This seminar is intended for legal service providers who are new to the area of family-based immigration and will focus on the basics of the family visa petition. We will go over the I-130 petition, including what relatives can qualify for family-based immigration; how priority dates are established, lost and recaptured; how beneficiaries of family petitions move around the preference categories with events such as marriage, divorce or the naturalization of the petitioner; what is the role of the visa bulletin and what happens when the visa availability date advances or regresses. The discussion will include an overview of the rules applying to widows and other beneficiaries when the qualifying relative dies. Finally, this seminar will also cover the adjustment of status process under INA 245(a) and the immigrant visa application process through consular processing. There will be a brief introduction to the grounds of inadmissibility.</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105</p><p><strong>Presenter:</strong></p><p><strong>Lourdes Martinez</strong>, Staff Attorney – Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)<br />Before joining ILRC, Lourdes worked as an immigration attorney at the Tahirih Justice Center in the DC metropolitan area, where she represented immigrant women and girls survivors of gender-based violence on immigration matters. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Rice University and her Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, where she was awarded the JB & Maurice Shapiro Public Service Fellowship for her dedication to public interest law. While in law school, she worked on international human rights litigation involving cases from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean both, with the International Human Rights Clinic at GWU and as a law clerk with the Center for Justice and International Law in San Jose, Costa Rica.</p><p><strong>Co-Presenter:</strong></p><p><strong>Kevin M. Crabtree</strong>, Staff Attorney – Law Office of Robert L. Lewis<br />Mr. Crabtree began his career in immigrant advocacy as an administrative assistant with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco. While studying law, he worked as a law clerk at the International Institute of the East Bay and the East Bay Sancutary Covenant, in connection with asylum and permanent residency applications. He was also a law clerk at the Eviction Defense Collaborative and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.</p><p>Mr. Crabtree received an award for outstanding public service in 2011 from the San Francisco Bar Association and the American Immigration Lawyer's Association for his pro bono work. Also in 2011, Mr. Crabtree was recognized as a Super Lawyers, "Rising Star" in field of immigration law.</p><p>Mr. Crabtree holds a Bachelor of Arts in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, and the degree of Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College. He studied hispanic linguisitcs at the University of Barcelona, Spain. In addition to his native English, he speaks fluent Spanish and conversational Catalan and French. He is admitted to the bars of the Supreme Court of California, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.</p>
<p>This seminar is intended for legal service providers generally familiar with the relative petition process and with the adjustment of status application and consular processing. In this training, we will cover more advanced topics such as the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA). We will discuss who may still benefit from Adjustment of Status under INA 245(i) with an emphasis on what family relationships result in 245(i) protection and who is “grandfathered” by this statutory clause. A significant portion of this seminar will be dedicated to the inadmissibility grounds based on health; crimes, misrepresentation and false claims to U.S. citizenship and unlawful voting, alien smuggling, and unlawful presence. The discussion will also include a thorough overview of the exceptions and the waivers corresponding to those grounds of inadmissibility, including who is covered by each waiver and how to meet the requirements. Special attention will be given to the hardship element of various waivers.</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105</p><p><strong>Presenters:</strong></p><p><strong>Lourdes Martinez</strong>, Staff Attorney – Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)<br />Before joining ILRC, Lourdes worked as an immigration attorney at the Tahirih Justice Center in the DC metropolitan area, where she represented immigrant women and girls survivors of gender-based violence on immigration matters. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Rice University and her Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, where she was awarded the JB & Maurice Shapiro Public Service Fellowship for her dedication to public interest law. While in law school, she worked on international human rights litigation involving cases from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean both, with the International Human Rights Clinic at GWU and as a law clerk with the Center for Justice and International Law in San Jose, Costa Rica.</p><p><strong>Erin Quinn</strong>, Staff Attorney – Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)<br />Erin brings to ILRC over 8 years of experience as an immigration defense attorney and holds a joint degree in law and public policy (JD/MPP) from the University of Michigan. Prior to opening her own practice in 2007, Ms. Quinn represented immigrants as an associate at the Law Office of Robert B. Jobe. Her experience in immigration law and policy includes working as a fellow for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, EU headquarters in Belgium; clerking for the Immigration Court of San Francisco; and guest lecturer at CSU Eastbay.</p><p><strong>Co-Presenters:</strong></p><p><strong>Nora Privitera</strong>, Special Projects Attorney & Lead Staff Attorney – Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)<br />Nora is the author of ILRC's publication <em>Hardship in Immigration Law: How to Prepare a Winning Case in Waiver and Cancellation of Removal Cases</em>, and <em>Remedies and Strategies for Permanent Resident Clients</em> and the Lead Staff Attorney of our Attorney of the Day (AOD) technical assistance program.</p><p><strong>Rosy H. Cho</strong>, Founder - Law Office of Rosy H. Cho<br />Attorney Rosy H. Cho has built a well-earned local and national reputation for successfully taking on and winning difficult immigration cases. Ms. Cho's law practice is focused exclusively on immigration law-from family and marriage-based visas, adjustment of status, citizenship, removal and deportation defense, employment-based visas, and federal immigration appeals.</p><p>Attorney Cho has a demonstrated commitment to helping immigrants understand and protect their legal rights. Working closely with community based and nonprofit organizations, Attorney Cho coordinates the San Francisco Bay Area legal response to large-scale raids conducted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Currently working with the ACLU and the San Francisco law firm, Morrison and Foerster, Attorney Cho is challenging the constitutionality of recent Bay Area ICE raids.</p><p>Attorney Cho serves on the Board of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and regularly speaks at AILA-sponsored local and national conferences. Ms. Cho has also appeared on radio programs discussing immigration law matters. In addition, Attorney Cho serves as a mentor to many volunteer attorneys representing asylum applicants through the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights.</p>
<p><strong>Dates:</strong> October 16, 23, 30 & November 6, 13, 20</p><p>Designed for attorneys that want to enhance their knowledge, this course covers the fundamental concepts and elements of immigration law and procedures. The program will examine all major themes of immigration law, including constitutional issues, grounds of inadmissibility & deportability and related procedures, waivers and relief from removal, the various immigration preference categories, nonimmigrant classes, refugees and asylum, adjustment of status, administrative appeals and judicial review, and the acquisition of American citizenship. This seminar is limited to attorneys and BIA Level 2 Accredited Representatives. The maximum capacity is 20 registrants on a first-come, first-served basis with full payment. This is a six-week training series; you must attend each date listed above from 3:30 pm – 7:00 pm to receive the total MCLE credits.</p><p><strong>Presenter:</strong></p><p><strong>Don Ungar, Of Counsel - Simmons & Ungar and ILRC</strong><br />With more than 40 years of immigration law experience, Don has litigated numerous cases before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the federal district courts, courts of appeal and the United States Supreme Court. He was the recipient of the first Jack Wasserman Award for excellence in litigation by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, as well as the Phillip Burton Immigration and Civil Rights Award.</p><p><strong>Location:</strong></p><p>Duane Morris LLP*, Suite 2200, One Market Plaza, Spear Tower, San Francisco, CA 94105<br />*Please be prepared to present a photo ID to the security guard.</p>
<p>Designed for attorneys that want to enhance their knowledge, this course covers the fundamental concepts and elements of immigration law and procedures. The program will examine all major themes of immigration law, including constitutional issues, grounds of inadmissibility & deportability and related procedures, waivers and relief from removal, the various immigration preference categories, nonimmigrant classes, refugees and asylum, adjustment of status, administrative appeals and judicial review, and the acquisition of American citizenship. This seminar is limited to attorneys and BIA Level 2 Accredited Representatives. The maximum capacity is <strong>15 registrants</strong> on a first-come, first-served basis with full payment. This is a seven-week training series; you must attend each date listed above from 3:30 pm – 7:00 pm to receive the total MCLE credits.</p><p><strong>Dates: March 5, 12, 19, 26 & April 2, 9, 16</strong></p><p>* Please be prepared to present a photo ID to the security guard.</p><p><strong>Presenter: </strong></p><p><strong>Don Ungar, Of Counsel - Simmons & Ungar and ILRC </strong><br />He has been practicing immigration law since 1962. He has litigated numerous cases before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the federal district courts, courts of appeal and the United States Supreme Court. He was the recipient of the first Jack Wasserman Award for excellence in litigation by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, as well as the Phillip Burton Immigration and Civil Rights Award.</p><p> </p>
<p>This day-long seminar is taught by the experts in the intersection of crimes and immigration law. In the morning session, immigration attorneys will meet separately to discuss updates to the categorical approach and eligibility for relief, while criminal defenders will look at a case-analysis method and specific pleas. In the afternoon, the two groups will join for discussion of criminal and immigration defense and post-conviction relief. The interactive training incorporates exercises and demonstrations.</p><p><strong>Presenters:</strong></p><p><strong>Norton Tooby, The Law Offices of Norton Tooby </strong><br />Located in Oakland, California, Norton Tooby holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College (1967) and a Juris Doctorate degree from Stanford Law School (1970), where he was the President of the Stanford Law Review from 1969-1970. Mr. Tooby specializes in criminal defense of immigrants, immigration consequences of criminal convictions, and post-conviction relief for immigrants. He has written numerous practice manuals in these areas. For nearly 20 years, he has organized CLE Seminars.</p><p><strong>Kathy Brady, ILRC Senior Staff Attorney </strong><br />Kathy has served with the ILRC since 1987 and has contributed to numerous ILRC projects. Her expertise includes the immigration consequences of criminal convictions; issues affecting immigrant children and mixed families; immigration consultant and consumer fraud; naturalization; family immigration; legal status for immigrant victims of domestic violence through the Violence Against Women Act provisions (VAWA); and trial skills. She is the primary author of <em>Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit</em> (formerly <em>California Criminal Law and Immigration</em>), and for many years was co-author of the section on defending noncitizens in the CEB manual <em>California Criminal Law: Procedure and Practice</em>. She also is a co-author of the ILRC's <em>Special Immigrant Juvenile Status</em> and the <em>Immigration Benchbook for Juvenile and Family Courts</em>. She has helped found coalitions and projects to address these issues, including serving as a co-founder of the Defending Immigrants Partnership and the Immigrant Justice Network. She authored briefs in key Ninth Circuit cases on immigration and crimes. In 2007, she received the Carol King award for advocacy from the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and she served as a Commissioner to the ABA Commission on Immigration from 2009-2012. Prior to working at the ILRC, Kathy was in private practice with the immigration firm of Park and Associates. She is conversant in Spanish.</p>
<p><strong>August 6, 2014 - 1:30 pm - 5:45 pm<br />August 7, 2014 - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm<br />Registration begins 30 minutes before the start time of each session.</strong></p><p>Please join us for a two-day training on Naturalization and Citizenship in San Bernardino, CA.</p><p><strong>Day 1:</strong> We will being with a review of the general requirements for naturalization, including continuous residence, physical presence, good moral character, the English and Civics requirements, and the red flag issues that can cause an applicant to be denied or deported. We will then review the application form (N-400), and cover various ways in which issues such as absences, good moral character, and crimes may arise on the new form.</p><p><strong>Day 2:</strong> We wil provide a more detailed analysis of some of the eligibility criteria for naturalization, including advanced good moral character issues and advanced update on how criminal record can affect eligibility. We will also discuss how to read criminal records, and tips for filing a Freedom of Information Act Request. Additionally, we will provide updates on the new form for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.</p><p><strong>Presenters:</strong> Kathy Brady, Staff Attorney - ILRC, Eric Cohen, Executive Director - ILRC, Dan DeGriselles, Deputy Public Defender - Office of the San Bernardino County Public Defender, Alison Kamhi, Staff Attorney - ILRC</p><p><strong>Sponsors:</strong> NALEO, ILRC, JFIC, San Bernardino Community Service Center, ICUC, ACLU, LULAC, and NAC</p>
<p>Designed for attorneys that want to enhance their knowledge, this course covers the fundamental concepts and elements of immigration law and procedures. The program will examine all major themes of immigration law, including constitutional issues, grounds of inadmissibility & deportability and related procedures, waivers and relief from removal, the various immigration preference categories, nonimmigrant classes, refugees and asylum, adjustment of status, administrative appeals and judicial review, and the acquisition of American citizenship. This seminar is limited to attorneys and BIA Level 2 Accredited Representatives. The maximum capacity is 15 registrants on a first-come, first-served basis with full payment.<strong> This is a seven-week training series; you must attend each date of the following dates from 3:30 pm – 7:00 pm to receive the total MCLE credits: September 3, 10, 17, 24 & October 1, 8, 15.</strong></p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Duane Morris LLP*, Suite 2200, One Market Plaza, Spear Tower, San Francisco, CA 94105<br />*Please be prepared to present a photo ID to the security guard.</p><p><strong>Presenter:</strong></p><p><strong>Don Ungar, Of Counsel - Simmons & Ungar and ILRC </strong><br />He has been practicing immigration law since 1962. He has litigated numerous cases before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the federal district courts, courts of appeal and the United States Supreme Court. He was the recipient of the first Jack Wasserman Award for excellence in litigation by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, as well as the Phillip Burton Immigration and Civil Rights Award.</p>
<p>This event is co-sponsored by the <strong>USF Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic</strong>.</p><p>This seminar is limited to criminal defense counsel, immigration defenders, and their staff. It is taught by two national experts in the intersection of crimes and immigration law, Katherine Brady and Norton Tooby. In the morning session, immigration attorneys will meet separately to discuss updates to case analysis, and eligibility for relief, while criminal defenders will look at a case-analysis method for determining the immigration consequences of criminal cases and identifying specific safer pleas. In the afternoon, the two groups will join for discussion of immigration consequences of criminal offenses, including the impact of California legislation such as PC 18.5, 1203.43, Prop 47, and post-conviction relief for immigrants. This interactive training incorporates exercises and demonstrations. <strong>*Public Defenders must register via fax or mail-in order form.</strong></p><p><strong>Presenters</strong>:</p><p><strong>Katherine Brady</strong>, ILRC Senior Staff Attorney</p><p>Kathy has served with the ILRC since 1987 and has contributed to numerous ILRC projects. Kathy graduated from Stanford University and Boalt Hall School of Law. She taught immigration law as an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University and New College School of Law, and supervised students at the Stanford University Law School Immigration Clinic. Her expertise includes the immigration consequences of criminal convictions; issues affecting immigrant children and mixed families; immigration consultant and consumer fraud; naturalization; family immigration; legal status for immigrant victims of domestic violence through the Violence Against Women Act provisions (VAWA); and trial skills. She is the primary author of <em>Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit</em>, which in its current form and as the former <em>California Criminal Law and Immigration</em> has been a publication since 1990. With Norton Tooby, she is the co-author of the 2014 CEB publication <em>California Criminal Defense of Immigrants</em>, and for many years was co-author of the section on defending noncitizens in the CEB manual <em>California Criminal Law: Procedure and Practice</em>. She also is a co-author of the ILRC's <em>Special Immigrant Juvenile Status</em> and the<em> Immigration Benchbook for Juvenile and Family Courts</em>. She has helped found coalitions and projects to address these issues, including serving as a co-founder of the Defending Immigrants Partnership and the Immigrant Justice Network. She authored briefs in key Ninth Circuit cases on immigration and crimes. In 2007, she received the Carol King award for advocacy from the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and she served as a Commissioner to the ABA Commission on Immigration from 2009-2012. Prior to working at the ILRC, Kathy was in private practice with the immigration firm of Park and Associates. She is conversant in Spanish.</p><p><strong>Norton Tooby</strong>, The Law Offices of Norton Tooby</p><p>Norton Tooby graduated in 1967 with a B.A. from Harvard, and in 1970 with a J.D. from the Stanford Law School, where he served as President of the Stanford Law Review. His national practice is based in Oakland, California. He obtains post-conviction relief from criminal convictions for immigrants nationwide, writes practice manuals for immigration and criminal lawyers, gives seminars, and maintains this legal research website. He also consults concerning immigration consequences of past and future criminal convictions. He is listed in BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA and BEST LAWYERS IN CALIFORNIA. In 2000, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center awarded him its Philip Burton Immigration & Civil Rights Award for Immigration Lawyering for "his pioneering work in the field of post-conviction relief for immigrants." In June 2010, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild honored Mr. Tooby “for outstanding work in defense of immigrant rights.” In 2011 he was awarded the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s Jack Wasserman Award for excellence in litigation as a member of the team that won <em>Padilla v Kentucky</em> (2010) 559 US 356, 130 S Ct 1473. In <em>Padilla</em>, Justice Stevens recognized and relied on Mr. Tooby’s practice manual, <em>Criminal Defense of Immigrants</em>, as one of the “authoritative treatises” that form the basis of counsel’s duty to protect noncitizen defendants against adverse immigration consequences of a plea. 130 S Ct at 1482–1483.</p><p>Norton has authored the following publications: TOOBY'S GUIDE TO CRIMINAL IMMIGRATION LAW: HOW CRIMINAL AND IMMIGRATION COUNSEL CAN WORK TOGETHER (2008); POST-CONVICTION RELIEF FOR IMMIGRANTS (National Edition 2004), CALIFORNIA POST-CONVICTION RELIEF FOR IMMIGRANTS (2d ed. 2009), CALIFORNIA EXPUNGEMENT MANUAL (2002), CATEGORICAL ANALYSIS TOOL KIT (2009); and, with J.J. Rollin, CRIMINAL DEFENSE OF IMMIGRANTS (4th ed. 2007), SAFE HAVENS: HOW TO IDENTIFY AND CONSTRUCT NON-DEPORTABLE CONVICTIONS (2005), CRIMES OF MORAL TURPITUDE (3d ed. 2009), and AGGRAVATED FELONIES (3d ed. 2006). Norton is also the co-author of the 2014 CEB publication <em>California Criminal Defense of Immigrants.</em></p><p> </p>
<p>This seminar is limited to criminal defense counsel, immigration defenders, and their staff. It is taught by national experts in the intersection of crimes and immigration law, Katherine Brady, Graciela Martinez, and Tony Pullara. In the morning session, immigration attorneys will meet separately to discuss updates to case analysis, and eligibility for relief, while criminal defenders will look at a case-analysis method for determining the immigration consequences of criminal cases and identifying specific safer pleas. In the afternoon, the two groups will join for discussion of immigration consequences of criminal offenses, including the impact of California legislation such as PC 18.5, 1203.43, Prop 47, and post-conviction relief for immigrants. This interactive training incorporates exercises and demonstrations. <strong>*Public Defenders must register via fax or mail-in order form.</strong></p><p><strong>Presenters</strong>:</p><p><strong>Kathy Brady</strong> has served with the ILRC since 1987 and has contributed to numerous ILRC projects. Kathy graduated from Stanford University and Boalt Hall School of Law. She taught immigration law as an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University and New College School of Law, and supervised students at the Stanford University Law School Immigration Clinic. Her expertise includes the immigration consequences of criminal convictions; issues affecting immigrant children and mixed families; immigration consultant and consumer fraud; naturalization; family immigration; legal status for immigrant victims of domestic violence through the Violence Against Women Act provisions (VAWA); and trial skills. She is the primary author of <em>Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit</em>, which in its current form and as the former <em>California Criminal Law and Immigration</em> has been a publication since 1990. With Norton Tooby, she is the co-author of the 2014 CEB publication <em>California Criminal Defense of Immigrants</em>, and for many years was co-author of the section on defending noncitizens in the CEB manual <em>California Criminal Law: Procedure and Practice</em>. She also is a co-author of the ILRC's <em>Special Immigrant Juvenile Status</em> and the<em> Immigration Benchbook for Juvenile and Family Courts</em>. She has helped found coalitions and projects to address these issues, including serving as a co-founder of the Defending Immigrants Partnership and the Immigrant Justice Network. She authored briefs in key Ninth Circuit cases on immigration and crimes. In 2007, she received the Carol King award for advocacy from the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and she served as a Commissioner to the ABA Commission on Immigration from 2009-2012. Prior to working at the ILRC, Kathy was in private practice with the immigration firm of Park and Associates. She is conversant in Spanish.</p><p><strong>Graciela Martinez </strong>has worked as a Deputy Public Defender at the office of the Los Angeles County Public Defender for twenty years. For twelve years she has had primary responsibility for training and advising the 800 defenders there on immigration consequences of crimes, and all aspects of representing noncitizen defendants. Recognized as a national expert on crim/imm from the defense side, she is a frequent speaker and author on this topic. Graciela will lead the criminal defense group in the morning session and comment throughout the day.</p><p><strong>Tony Pullara</strong> has practiced criminal law for more than twenty years in both trial and appellate advocacy, and is the founder of Law Offices of Anthony J. Pullara. One of his specialties is obtaining post-conviction relief to support immigration cases, and he has won scores of victories for immigrants using a variety of legal vehicles, including appointment on numerous<em>Franco</em> cases. Tony has lectured on post-conviction relief and crim/imm, and he will present on post-conviction relief for immigrants in the afternoon joint session.</p>