CLE Webinar: Fighting for Due Process in the Immigration System
Admission
- $125.00 - Legal Worker/Non-Profit/Student
- $200.00 - Current Members of NIPNLG, NLG, or Minority Bar Associations
- $250.00 - Private Attorney
Description
Join Us for this Online Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Course
Friday, May 15, 2020
11:00 AM - 5:30 PM (EDT)
Please note that information on how to join the webinar will be shared after registration. If you do not recieve an email within 48 hours of having registered, please contact Hilda Bonilla at hbonilla@nipnlg.org.
Agenda:
10:55 – 11:00 (EDT): Introduction
11:00 – 12:00 (EDT): Remote Ethics
- How to adequately prepare a client in a rapidly changing system
- Addressing challenges of competently representing clients remotely
Faculty: Karen Grisez, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Helen A. Sklar, Stone Grzegorek & Gonzalez LLP
12:05 – 1:05 (EDT): Challenging Detention in Federal Court
- Bases for detention
- Common habeas claims and arguments
- Filing and escalating habeas litigation
Faculty: Adina Appelbaum, Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition
Andrea Saenz, Brooklyn Defender Services
1:10 – 2:10 (EDT): New Criminal Asylum Bars
- Overview of proposed new criminal asylum bars and impact
- Background and expansion of particularly serious crime bar
- Tips and strategies for navigating the proposed changes
Faculty: Nabilah Siddiquee, Immigrant Defense Project
Cristina Velez, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild
Phil Torrey, Harvard Immigration & Refugee Clinic
2:15 – 3:15 (EDT): Impact of Castillo-Perez on Good Moral Character Determination
- Overview of the good moral character requirements
- Impact of Matter of Castillo-Perez
- Challenging Castillo-Perez
Faculty: Himedes V. Chicas, Law Offices of Jezic & Moyse, LLC
Michelle Mendez, Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc
Denise Slavin, Retired Immigration Judge
3:20 – 4:20 (EDT): Systemic Issues in Immigration Adjudication: How to Fight Back Against the Weaponization of the Immigration Courts
- Baseline rights in Immigration Adjudication
- Systemic Dysfunction in the Court System
- Weaponization Under the Trump Administration
- Defending Due Process in the Courtroom
Faculty: Linda Corchado, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center
Allegra Love, Santa Fe Dreamers Project
Tess Hellgren, Innovation Law Lab
4:25 – 5:25 (EDT): COVID-19 and the Immigration System
- How COVID-19 has changed the immigration courts and detention
- Overview of COVID-19 litigation
- What you can do for your vulnerable clients
Faculty: Sirine Shebaya, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild
Laura Lunn, Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network
Javier Maldonado, Law Office of Javier Maldonado, PC
CLE credits
An application for 6 credits is pending in Virginia. Certificates will be available for attorneys to request CLE credits in other states.
Registration Fees
- Legal Worker/Non-Profit/Student - $125
- Current Members of NIPNLG, NLG, or Minority Bar Associations - $200
- Private Attorney - $250
CLE Sponsored By
National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild
Questions
Please send inquiries about the CLE to hbonilla@nipnlg.org.
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