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Co-sponsored by the Immigration Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association
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September 2014
Immigration Law 2014
Co-sponsored by the Immigration Section of the Colorado Bar Association
Program Highlights:
- Effectively Representing Clients in Immigration Proceedings
- Evidence in Removal Proceedings
- Representing the Most Vulnerable: Unaccompanied Children Before the Immigration Courts
- The Intersection of Family Law and Immigration Law
- U and T Visas: Special Protections for Victims of Crime and Human Trafficking
- Protection from Persecution: Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and the Convention Against Torture
- Mental Health and Capacity in Immigration Court
Program Description:
The Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN) is a nonprofit organization that provides free immigration legal services to children and to individuals in immigration detention. RMIAN provides daily know-your-rights presentations, individual intakes, pro se assistance, and legal representation for those detained at the federal immigration detention facility in Aurora. RMIAN's Children's Program directly represents children who have survived abandonment, abuse, persecution or other violence, and provides technical assistance and community education throughout the state on children's immigration law issues. Unable to meet the overwhelming need for legal services, RMIAN refers both detention and children's cases to its network of pro bono attorneys. RMIAN screens pro bono cases, writes referral memorandums, and provides professional liability insurance and a mentor attorney for each pro bono attorney.
AGENDA:
8:30am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am
9:00am
Effectively Representing Clients in Immigration Proceedings
- Practice tips before the immigration agencies and courts
- Forms of relief from removal
- How to prepare a winning case
Presented by Laura Lichter, Esq.
9:50am
Evidence in Removal Proceedings
- Burdens of proof and presumptions
- Effective use of expert witnesses (country condition experts, doctors, and mental health professionals)
- Documentary evidence
- Presentation of testimony and cross-examination
- Use of motions
- Filings and other procedural rules
Presented by Honorable Mimi E. Tsankov (in her personal capacity)
10:40am
Networking Break
10:55am
The Intersection of Family Law and Immigration Law
- Special Immigrant juvenile status: How to pursue in guardianship, allocation of parental responsibilities, and adoption cases
- Adoption and family immigration
- Hague Service Convention
- Partnering with an immigration attorney
Presented by Seth Grob, Esq., and Timothy Eirich, Esq.
11:45am
Lunch on Your Own
12:45pm
Representing the Most Vulnerable: Unaccompanied Children Before the Immigration Courts
- Definition of and best practices for representing unaccompanied alien children (UAC)
- Ethics of representing minors
- Asylum claims involving youth
- Special immigrant juvenile status, DACA, prosecutorial discretion, and voluntary departure
Presented by Katie Glynn, Esq. and Abbie Johnson, Esq.
1:35pm
U and T Visas: Special Protections for Victims of Crime and Human Trafficking
- Eligibility requirements for U and T visas
- Practice pointers: working with law enforcement
- Unique considerations for working with survivors of crime and human trafficking, including child survivors
Presented by Patricia Medige, Esq., and Abbie Johnson, Esq.
2:25pm
Networking Break
2:40pm
Protection from Persecution: Asylum, Withholding of Removal, and the Convention Against Torture
- How to prepare and present winning cases
- Hot topics in asylum law, including claims based on Particular Social Group
- Reasonable fear and credible fear interviews and procedures
Presented by Lisa Green, Esq.
3:30 pm
Mental Health and Capacity in Immigration Court
- Identifying and understanding capacity issues
- Best practices for working with clients with capacity issues
- Ethical considerations for working with clients with mental illnesses
- Defenses to removal based on incapacity
- Partnerships between attorneys and mental health professionals
Presented by Christina Fiflis, Esq., Megan Hall, Esq., and Dr. Lavita Nadkarni
4:20pm
Adjourn
- CLE Pass Price *FREE! - exclusions may apply
- Standard Price $329.00 USD
- Member Price $299.00 USD
- General Credits 7.00
- Ethics Credits 0.00
- EDI Credits