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Program Description:
In these difficult economic times, employers must decide whether to hire new workers, reduce hours and/or wages of current employees, or to change job locations for existing workers. This program will examine the employers’ obligations when changing the terms of employment or terminating workers including severance, benefits, transportation, and reporting requirements to the government. An employee’s immigration status may affect the scope of an employer’s possible actions and the repercussions of any change. Through the use of hypotheticals, our expert panel will provide concrete advice in real-world situations to employment lawyers, corporate counsel and other lawyers who advise employers. Special attention will be paid to preventing discrimination during recruitment, during the I-9 process, during the E-Verify process and as a result of receiving a Social Security no-match letter.

Moderator:  Ellen Yost, Partner, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, New York, NY
Patricia Haim, Partner, Littler Mendelson, Portland, OR
Jerry D. Malinin, Senior Labor and Employment Counsel, Motorola Law Department, Schaumburg, IL
Patrick Shen, former Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division (OSC); Director of Global Compliance, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, Washington, DC

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Friday, February 13, 2009
Boston, MA

An increasing number of immigrants find their way into detention facilities as the use of detention has grown in recent years. The ABA helped to negotiate national detention standards with the Department of Justice and former Immigration & Naturalization Service that provide for some medical care for detainees; Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently released revised standards. This panel will address issues related to detainee medical care and the adequacy, implementation, and enforceability of medical standards. Panelists will explore the critical role health care professionals play in ensuring successful service delivery, and equip lawyers with a more in-depth understanding of the detainee health care system in order to more effectively assist their individual or institutional clients.

Panelists:

• Robert E. Juceam, Fried Frank Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, New York, NY, Moderator
• Dr. Robert L. Cohen, New York, NY
• Laura Rotolo, American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
• Rebekah Tosado, DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Washington, DC
• Megan H. Mack, ABA Commission on Immigration, Washington, DC

A Free CLE Program Presented by the: Commission on Immigration, Criminal Justice Section, Commission on Domestic Violence, Section of International Law, Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law, Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants and Young Lawyers Division.

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As immigration enforcement activities increase, criminal defense attorneys and pro bono attorneys representing non-citizens are witnessing firsthand the immigration consequences of a prior or new criminal conviction.

Panelists will:

• Explore post-conviction forms of relief that may alleviate the adverse consequences of criminal offenses
• Present the consequences of a fraud/identity theft conviction
• Discuss forms of relief for permanent residents including cancellation of removal and the 212(h) waiver
• Describe the relevancy of juvenile, state, federal, and foreign convictions
• Present the felony and misdemeanor crimes (sexual offenses involving minors, crimes of violence, fraud with a loss of $10,000+, trafficking narcotics, etc.) that constitute an aggravated felony and strategize about ways to advocate for a client’s criminal case to be revisited.
• Review the important factors that determine whether or not a criminal conviction carries the consequence of deportability or inadmissibility.

This program is ideal for attorneys interested in pro bono immigration cases, criminal defense attorneys, or any attorney who is unfamiliar with the ramifications of a criminal conviction to a non-citizen’s immigration proceedings.

Moderator:   Rebecca Sharpless, Visiting Clinical Professor, Clinical Program of Florida International University College of Law, Miami, FL
Katherine Brady, Senior Staff Attorney, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, San Francisco, CA
Dan Kesselbrenner, Executive Director, National Immigration Project, National Lawyers Guild, Boston, MA
Norton Tooby, Law Offices of Norton Tooby, Oakland, CA