A day-long seminar on defending non-citizens for immigration and criminal attorneys:

Seminar Topics:
I. Burden of Proof in Removal Proceedings
• Survey of different burdens in different contexts
• Deportability and post-conviction relief (including motions to reopen)
• Returning LPR
• Inadmissibility and relief
II. Arguments Against Deportability
• Minimum conduct analysis and when it applies
• When it is improper to use modified categorical analysis (i.e., when statute is not divisible)
• Defenses against realistic possibility of prosecution: when it does not apply and how to meet it when it does
III. Drug Trafficking Aggravated Felonies
What state convictions qualify as drug trafficking aggravated felonies after the Supreme Court decision in Lopez v. Gonzales?
IV. Recent Developments
• Matter of Martinez-Zapata, on the effect of conduct-based sentence enhancements on the elements of the offense of conviction and on sentence imposed.
• Upcoming Supreme Court decision on how to calculate the maximum sentence where a recidivist sentence enhancement was found true.

Top Faculty:
DanKesselbrenner, Director, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, co-author of IMMIGRATION LAW AND CRIMES (2008)

Norton Tooby, co-author of CRIMINAL DEFENSE OF IMMIGRANTS (2007), AGGRAVATED FELONIES (2006),
SAFE HAVENS: HOW TO IDENTIFY AND CONSTRUCT NON-DEPORTABLE CONVICTIONS (2005), and CRIMES OF MORAL TURPITUDE (2008), and the new TOOBY'S GUIDE TO CRIMINAL AND IMMIGRATION LAW (2008).

To register, please download and submit the attached flyer.