Are you a lawyer who wants to learn more about representing clients in removal proceedings? Do you want to represent your clients with the confidence that comes from a better understanding of the local practices and procedures? This seminar will teach you the nuts and bolts of representing persons in removal proceedings and provide you with the skills to present a successful case before the San Francisco Immigration Court.

Topics covered include:

* Chronology of removal proceedings: Master calendar and individual hearings
* How to respond to a Notice to Appear (NTA), including challenges to proper service.
* Things you need to know if the person is detained, including bond pre-NTA and post-NTA filing
* Documents necessary for different kinds of cases
* Forms of relief in Removal Proceedings
* Voluntary Departure, why and when you should ask for it,
* Automatic withdrawal of voluntary departure on appeal, & necessary advisals
* How to prepare your client for an Individual Hearing
* Other relevant issues including fingerprinting, local operating rules and how to find them, how to read court files and documents, and filing applications with the Service Centers in the context of removal proceedings


Deadline to Register: 9/15/10

Moderator:
Angie Junck, ILRC Staff Attorney
Part of Angie's work at the ILRC focuses on the relationship between immigration and criminal law. She is a co-author of ILRC's publication, Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit, and the Arizona Quick Reference Guide to Immigration Consequences of Convictions. Her efforts to mitigate the difficult immigration consequences for criminal convictions of immigrants is at the core of the ILRC's Defending Immigrants Project, which assists public defenders and the Immigrant Justice Network, a project to build a movement to shift public perception of immigrants in the criminal justice system. Angie is a co-chair of the Detention Watch Network's Public Awareness Committee and is on the Advisory Board of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. Prior to joining the ILRC, she worked on post-conviction relief for immigrants at the Law Offices of Norton Tooby and advocated on behalf of incarcerated survivors of domestic violence as the co-coordinator of Free Battered Women and a member of the Habeas Project.

Presenters:
Nora Privitera, ILRC Special Projects Attorney & Lead Staff Attorney, Attorney of the Day (AOD) Consultation Service
Nora is the author of ILRC's most popular publication, Hardship in Immigration Law: How to Prepare a Winning Case in Waiver and Cancellation of Removal Cases, and Remedies and Strategies for Permanent Resident Clients.

Ilyce Shugall, Attorney, Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale, LLP
Ilyce has been practicing law since 1999, and she joined Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale, LLP in October of 2001. Her practice focuses on all areas of removal defense, the intersection between criminal and immigration law, family based immigration, and asylum.

Sin Yen Ling, Staff Attorney, Asian Law Caucus
Sin Yen's work experience includes complex litigation involving illegal detention of U.S. citizens; suppression cases in deportation involving constitutional violations; challenging material support to terrorism; and general detention/deportation issues in Federal Court.