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What Lawyers Need to Know About Employment
and Immigration Law
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Teleconference and Integrated Visual Webcast
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
| CLE Program Sponsors: |
The American Bar Association Commission on Immigration, General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Division, Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division, Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, Section of International Law, Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, Young Lawyers Division and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education |
Health Care for Immigration Detainees:
What Should
Be The Standard?
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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.
What All Attorneys Should Know About Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions for Non-Citizen Clients
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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
| CLE Program Sponsors: The American Bar Association Commission on Immigration, Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division, Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Division, Criminal Justice Section and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education |
Actions that Affect Applications for U.S. Citizenship
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After navigating the labyrinth of immigration laws, naturalization is the final step for thousands of people to achieve their dream of U.S. citizenship. The application for naturalization, a sometimes simple task, can become highly complicated by any criminal history or extensive U.S. absence on the part of the immigrant applicant. In this program, panelists will address the consequences of certain conduct by immigrants, which may surprisingly result in the grant or denial of their applications for U.S. citizenship. Panelists will discuss in detail:
- Issues involving good moral character
- The problem with drug offenses
- The effects of DUI convictions
- Is a single retail theft conviction a problem?
- New pitfalls for those who unlawfully vote
- Special rules of naturalization for military service personnel
This program will benefit both new and experienced practitioners by providing an overview of the naturalization process and the many multi-faceted obstacles that applicants may face.
Moderator: Carlina Tapia-Ruano, Founder, Tapia-Ruano & Gunn PC, Chicago, IL
Thomas E. Moseley, Law Office of Thomas E. Moseley,
Newark, NJ
Martin Rothstein, Partner, Barst & Mukamal LLP, New York, NY
Margaret D. Stock, Law Office of Margaret D. Stock,
Anchorage, AK
CLE Program Sponsors: The American Bar Association Commission on Immigration, General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Division, Section of International Law, Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, Criminal Justice Section, Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division , Young Lawyers Division and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education
New Immigration Compliance Concerns for Employers: Strategies for E-Verify Use
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In recent weeks, the government has issued delays on two rules which were planned to take effect this month: (1) new rules for I-9 Employment Verification form; and (2) the recent amendments to the Acquisition Regulation (FAR) which would make mandatory use of E-verify for federal contractors. The USCIS has delayed the implementation of the new I-9 rule until April 3, 2009. The I-9 rule, which was originally scheduled to take effect on February 2, 2009, would have made several changes to the Form I-9 Employment Verification Form, including the introduction of a new form and elimination of certain expired and obsolete documents from the list of acceptable I-9 documents. The second related regulation, originally scheduled to take effect on January 15, 2009, is the E-verify requirement for federal contractors. The delays in implementation—first until February 20, 2009 and now until May 21, 2009—are the result of a lawsuit filed by U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other organizations seeking to stop the rule from taking effect.
This program will focus on what you must know to assist employers to comply with their I-9 and E-Verify obligations under federal and state rules.
Panelists will:
- Provide an overview of I-9 and E-Verify obligations, including deadlines and reverification
- Review the states that mandate E-Verify
- Discuss pros and cons of voluntary enrollment in E-Verify, including legal exposure under the E-Verify Memorandum of Understanding
- Provide training on E-Verify including: Registration process; staff training; mechanics of using the E-Verify system in the hiring process, managing the non-confirmation process
- Address strategies for an employer with multiple work sites and other complex use issues
- Discuss special issues for federal contractors, including obligations before and after implementation of the E-Verify regulation for federal contractors
Moderator: Neil S. Dornbaum, Partner, Dornbaum & Peregoy, Newark, NJ
Marketa Lindt, Counsel, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL
Dawn Lurie, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, McLean, VA
Michael Mayhew, Management & Program Analyst, Customer Relationship & Learning Management Verification Division, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Fairfax, VA

