Creative Strategies in Immigration Court Defense and Litigation

Creative Strategies in Immigration Court Defense and Litigation

Seminar Agenda

9:00am – 10:15am: Securing Release: Detention and Bond Issues

• What statute governs detention? INA 235, 236(a) or (c), or 241-  
• Detention arguments before the IJ & BIA-  
• Challenging custody decisions via habeas-  

Faculty: Alina Das, NYU Law School, Judy Rabinovitz, ACLU-IRP

10:15am – 11:15am: Governing Law and Suggested Strategies in Asylum

• Gang related, domestic violence, and gender identity asylum claims  
• Claims for children

Faculty:   Christine Lin, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies and Rex Chen, Safe Passage

11:15-11:30:     Break

11:30am – 12:30pm: Using FOIA

• Scope of FOIA
• Timing
• What to do if you don’t get documents in time

                                   Faculty:  Stacy Tolchin, Law Office of Stacy Tolchin                                    

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm:  Lunch – Participants on their own.

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm:     Ethics   

• Understanding your obligations to your client 
• Understanding your obligations to the tribunal-  
• What obligations are ongoing- 

                                    Faculty:  Barbara Hines and Claudia Slovinsky                                        

2:30pm-3:30 pm: Supreme Court Developments

• Mathis v. United States and the Categorical Approach- 
• Voisine v. United States- 
• Luna-Torres v. Lynch- 

Faculty:  Manny Vargas, Immigrant Defense Project and Sejal Zota, National Immigration Project/NLG

3:30pm – 3:40pm:   Break

3:40 pm – 4:30 pm: Advocating for Clients in Writing

• Creating a theory of the case
• Selecting the theory
• Implementing the theory

Faculty:   Michael Wishnie, Yale Law School

4:30pm – 5:00 pm: Supplemental Questions and Answers

• On all the above topics

Faculty:   All

Application for New York accreditation of this program is currently pending.

Event Hours

Registration: 8:15 – 9:00am, Coffee will be provided.

CLE Seminar: 9:00am – 5:00pm

       Lunch Break: At approximately 12:30 pm, participants may leave the seminar to have lunch on their own

from among a variety of options near the law school. 

CLE Event Location:

NYU School of Law
40 Washington Sq. South, New York City, NY 10012

Vanderbilt Hall, Classroom 204

Application for New York accreditation of this program is currently pending.

Registration Fees:

Private Attorney

$275 before July 29, 2016

$300 after July 29, 2016

Current members of NIPNLG, NLG, or minority bar associations

$225 before July 29

$250 after July 29, 2016

Legal Worker - Nonprofit - Student

$175 before July 29, 2016

$200 after July 29, 2016

Scholarships available based on need.  Please email dan@nipnlg.org

NIPNLG MEMBERSHIP MEETING

NIPNLG will also hold its annual Membership Meeting on Thursday, August 4, at no additional charge, to be held at NYU Law School, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Sq. South, New York City, NY 10012, Room To Be Determined.

A reception will follow. 

RSVP for the Membership Meeting.

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NIPNLG CLE Sponsored By:

National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild

Questions

Please send any questions regarding this event to: Events@NIPNLG.org