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Removal Defense Seminar in LA

By immigrationprof

How to Defend Permanent Residents from Removal Seminar

Friday, April 10, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

UCLA School of Law, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095

Presenters: Angie Junck and Nora Privitera, ILRC

Fee: $165 Regular / $90 Non-profit / $35 CA IOLTA

Deadline to register: 3/30/09

This seminar is designed to teach practitioners how to effectively defend permanent residents charged with being removable. Topics include the differing burdens of proof for admissibility, deportability, and applications for relief, defenses against the allegations in the Notice to Appear, the eligibility requirements for cancellation of removal, 212(h) waivers, 212(c), other forms of relief, and how to work with clients to elicit the evidence needed to defend their cases.

Presenters:

Angie Junck, ILRC Staff Attorney: At the ILRC, Angie focuses on the intersection between criminal and immigration law.  She is a co-author of ILRC’s publication Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit: The Impact of Crimes under California and Other State Laws and is the co-author of the forthcoming ILRC publication, Remedies and Strategies for Permanent Resident Clients in Removal Proceedings. Her efforts to mitigate the difficult immigration consequences for criminal convictions of immigrants is at the core of the national Defending Immigrants Partnership 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. She represents detainees facing removal for crimes.

Nora Privitera, ILRC Special Projects Attorney & Lead Staff Attorney, Attorney of the Day (AOD) Consultation Service: Nora is the author of the ILRC publication, Hardship in Immigration Law: How to Prepare a Winning Case in Waiver and Cancellation of Removal Cases, and the forthcoming ILRC publication, Remedies and Strategies for Permanent Resident Clients in Removal Proceedings. Before joining ILRC, Nora was in private immigration practice for 12 years, handling all kinds of immigration cases, particularly deportation defense.

Click here for the registration form.

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