The intersection of criminal and immigration law is becoming more and more critical to attorneys practicing in both fields. Our practice manuals offer expert legal information to attorneys concerning:

• Criminal defense of immigrants

• Immigration consequences of criminal convictions, and

• How to obtain post-conviction relief in criminal court for immigrants.

Click on one of our practice manuals below to learn more or to order:

• Aggravated Felonies

• Tooby’s Crimes of Moral Turpitude

• Criminal Defense of Immigrants, Volumes I, II & III

• Criminal Defense of Immigrants, Volume III (2012 Update only)

• Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants

• California Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants

• Safe Havens: How to Identify and Construct Non-Deportable Convictions

Our office presents seminars all over the country to both criminal defense and immigration attorneys, as well as law students, legal workers and other individuals interested in the field.  We use modern interactive adult educational techniques, to multiply many times over the amount of information participants retain. Our seminars are very highly regarded — our March 2011 national seminar on post-conviction claims of ineffective assistance of counsel after Padilla, received an average of well above 4.5 on a "5 = Excellent" scale. All of our seminars are CLE accredited in California. To find out more about our upcoming seminars, please select a seminar below.

Located in Oakland, California, Norton Tooby holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard (1967) and a Juris Doctorate degree from Stanford Law School (1970), where he was the President of the Stanford Law Review from 1969-1970.  Mr. Tooby specializes in criminal defense of immigrants, immigration consequences of criminal convictions, and post-conviction relief for immigrants.  He has written practice manuals such as TOOBY'S GUIDE TO CRIMINAL IMMIGRATION LAW (2008); TOOBY'S CATEGORICAL ANALYSIS TOOL KIT (2009); TOOBY'S CRIMES OF MORAL TURPITUDE (2008); AGGRAVATED FELONIES (2006), and CRIMINAL DEFENSE OF IMMIGRANTS (4th ed. 2007).  For nearly 20 years, he has organized CLE seminars.  He maintains www.NortonTooby.com, this criminal immigration research site.