Immigration Law Bundle Includes:

• $75

  Asylum ABC's: What Attorneys Need to Know

  General Credits: 1.5

  Whether you are new to immigration law or a seasoned practitioner, this course offers an overview of asylum law and also practical advice on helping a client make a successful asylum application. This overview offers the nuts and bolts of Asylum, ranging from general details such as the time frame...

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• $50

  Ethical Considerations When Responding To Lozada Complaints

  Ethics Credits: 1

  Immigration is a rewarding practice area with a collegial group of practitioners. While immigration law is among the most complex, a great benefit is colleagues who generously share their knowledge and experience with one another. This makes it even more difficult when one lawyer must prepare and...

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• $50

  How to File Successful Non-Immigrant O and E Visa Petitions and EB-1, EB2-NIW and PERM-based Green Card Petitions

  General Credits: 1

  This CLE presentation will cover the following visa petitions: E (Investors and Traders from countries with treaties with the US), O-1A (Athletics, Business, Education and the Sciences) and O-1B (Artists, and those in Motion Pictures & TV). This presentation will also cover the following “green...

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• $50

  Legal Ethics: Confidentiality and Taking Remedial Measures

  Ethics Credits: 1

  Confidentiality is one of the three main fiduciary duties a lawyer owes to their client. Without strict confidentiality, clients may not feel free to discuss sensitive matters with their lawyer. This can sometimes clash with the lawyer’s obligations of candor to the tribunal when evidence that ha...

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• $50

  Current Trends in Asylum Cases: The Asylum Officer Rule

  General Credits: 1

  A few days ago, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice began implementing a new rule to quickly grant asylum to applicants who are subject to expedited removal and who are eligible for asylum, and to promptly remove those who are not. This new rule seeks to streamline...

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• $50

  Ethics & Client Communication: Setting Yourself Up for Success

  Ethics Credits: 1

  This CLE will address the specific rules and comments regarding client communication to help lawyers understand not only their bar-mandated responsibilities, but also how to build a system to protect your mental health while also meeting clients’ needs. The instructor will share detailed insigh...

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• $75

  Remove The "Stress" From Removal Defense: Practice Before The Federal Immigration Courts

  General Credits: 1.5

  Practicing before the federal immigration courts, known as "EOIR" for short, can often be very stressful for attorneys. Not only must attorneys keep up with the near-constant change in immigration law itself, but with the nearly as volatile policies and procedures of the Courts themselves. Sinc...

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• $50

  To Prosecute or Not To Prosecute? Analyzing Ethical Rules Telling Prosecutors When and How They Can Do Their Job

  Ethics Credits: 1

  Before the dramatic closing argument or daring cross examination, prosecutor offices must carefully assess whether the case may be prosecuted and precisely how. For prosecutors, these rules provide both limitations for whether cases can be prosecuted at all, and guidelines for how they should be p...

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• $50

  "Sweat Equity" in Small Businesses and Venture Startups: The Legal and Tax Issues

  General Credits: 1

  When a startup or small business first launches, it is easy to issue shares (almost) tax-free to the company founders. When a shareholder or LLC member receives shares in exchange for his or her labor, or “sweat equity,” the legal and tax issues are a bit more complicated. In this fast-paced,...

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• $175

  Lost in Translation The Pitfalls of Obtaining Testimony Across Boundaries of Language, Culture and Class

  General Credits: 3.75

  Interpretation is an art not a science. That's why obtaining testimony is very often like an under-educated laborer from another universe describing the truth to an artist who then must describe it to an engineer. As an attorney even if you are a native speaker of the language of the witness a lot...

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• $75

  Citizenship and Residence: Prerequisites to Extra Territorial Taxation

  General Credits: 1.5

  An examination of the various (jurisdictional) bases for imposing tax on the extra-territorial income of persons with an emphasis on natural persons; the meanings ascribed to the various different bases under the Code, some State statutes, some countries; residence status for tax treaty purposes; d...

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