Mar 2, 9, 16/ White Plains, NY - Comprehensive Immigration Law Training for Pro Bono Practitioners

The Public Service Committee of the Federal Bar Council Presents
Comprehensive Immigration Law Training for Pro Bono Practitioners

Program Description
The Public Service Committee of the Federal Bar Council presents a three evening
training series aimed at familiarizing pro bono practitioners with
principles of immigration law and practice. The three trainings will focus,
respectively, on the legal and practical framework of immigration law, asylum
law, and collateral implications of immigration status in criminal proceedings.
Interested attorneys need not attend all three sessions.

Panelists and Locations (Light dinner will be served)
March 2, 2011: Legal and Practical Framework of Immigration Law
Location: Milbank Tweed, One Chase Manhattan Plaza
Time: 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Opening remarks by the Hon. Judge Robert Katzmann, U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit
Hon. Judge Noel Brennan, U.S. Immigration Court, Executive Office of
Immigration Review
Robert Juceaum, Of Counsel, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson,
LLP
Aaron Morris, Senior Staff Attorney, Immigration Equality

March 9, 2011: Asylum Law Training
Location: Morrison & Foerster, LLP, 1290 Avenue of the Americas
Time: 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Opening remarks by the Hon. Judge Denny Chin, U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jennifer Kim, Director, Refugee Assistance Program, City Bar Justice Center
Mark Von Sternberg, Senior Attorney, Catholic Charities Community
Services / Archdiocese of New York
Lauris Wren, Clinical Professor / Attorney-in-Charge, Asylum Clinic,
Hofstra Law School

March 16: 2011: Immigration Consequences of Criminal Conviction
Location: Shearman & Sterling, LLP, 599 Lexington Avenue
Time: 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Opening remarks by the Hon. Sarah M. Burr, Assistant Chief
Immigration Judge.
Jojo Annobil, Attorney-in-Charge, Immigration Law Unit, Legal Aid Society
James Harris, criminal defense attorney with extensive experience in
post-conviction litigation
Lindsay Nash, Arthur Liman Fellow, Immigration Justice Clinic, Benjamin
N. Cardozo School of Law
Isaac Wheeler, Litigation Staff Attorney, Immigrant Defense Project

Program Coordinators
Ruti Smithline and Shiri Wolf, Morrison & Foerster LLP
Meghan Gabriel and Nehal Siddiqui, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP
Federal Bar Council Public Service Committee Chair
Jamie Levitt, Morrison & Foerster LLP

CLE Credit Information
March 2 and 16, 2011: These transitional CLE programs have been approved in
accordance with the requirements of the CLE Board for CLE credits to be applied
toward the areas of Professional Practice, Ethics, and Skills.
March 9, 2011: This transitional CLE program has been approved in
accordance with the requirements of the CLE Board for CLE credits to be applied
toward the Professional Practice requirement.

Registration Information
** Please note: Registrants are requested to take on a pro bono immigration case in the next 12 months. **

Register by sending e-mail to: ImmigrationTraining@mofo.com .

Please include in the e-mail message: (1) your name; (2) e-mail address; (3) firm name; and (4) date of training session(s) you are registering for.

There is no charge for this program.

Federal Bar Council
123 Main Street, Suite L100, White Plains, NY 10601-3104
(914) 682-8800 • Fax (914) 682-4400
federalbar@federalbarcouncil.com  • http://www.federalbarcouncil.org/
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