Registration- Private Attorney
$295

Registration- Legal Worker/ Nonprofit/ Student
$150

If you are attending the 2012 AILA Annual Conference, come a day early to join us for this day-long seminar. This seminar is for both criminal and immigration attorneys. Please note that you do not have to be attending the AILA Annual Conference to attend this seminar.

2012 Seminar Topics

I. Aggravated Felony Crimes of Violence

II. Fraud and Deceit Aggravated Felonie

a. Overview

b. Fraud and Deceit Offenses

c. Loss Requirement

III. Supreme Court Decisions on Immigration Relief

a. Judulang

b. Vartelas (nonretroactivity of elimination of Fleuti)

IV. Recent Developments on Padilla Claims

a. Supreme Court Decisions in Frye and Cooper

b. Update on Padilla Retroactivity

2011 Seminar Topics

I.    Padilla Claims of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel: Overcoming Procedural Obstacles to Success in Vacating Convictions for Counsel’s Failure to Give Accurate Immigration Advice at Plea.  Practical suggestions and legal arguments.

II.   Mandatory Immigration Detention for Crimes: What convictions will trigger mandatory detention during removal proceedings, and how to obtain respondents’ release. 

III. Working with Criminal Counsel to Obtain Client’s Release From Criminal and Immigration Custody: When criminal counsel should try to obtain client’s release from criminal custody, and how to help criminal counsel arrange a disposition that will allow the client to avoid mandatory immigration detention, so the client can be released from an immigration hold to serve a noncustodial criminal disposition.

IV. Case Winning Tips: Favorite criminal dispositions that should not trigger mandatory immigration detention or removal, including recent developments. 

Top Faculty

Norton Tooby, author of Winning Padilla Claims (2012), Tooby’s Crimes of Moral Turpitude (2008), Tooby’s Guide to Criminal Immigration Law (2008), Criminal Defense of Immigrants (2007), Aggravated Felonies (2006), and Safe Havens: How to Identify and Construct Non-Deportable Convictions (2005).

Dan Kesselbrenner, Director, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, author of Immigration Law and Crimes (2010)

Reviews:

"The best and most interesting seminar I have ever attended!" - Carolyn Chapman

"These guys really know what they're talking about. It's the intelligent way to put on a seminar." - David Bryon

"Very thorough presentation in 1 day...Very knowledgeable regarding subject matter and made material easy to understand." -Shilpa Balan