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Advocating for Vulnerable Voices: Advice from Immigration Law Practitioners & a Former Immigration Judge
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This program will cover the following topics:

  • How to prepare a bond case when your client has a DV charge;
  • Identifying & Overcoming Implicit Bias in Immigration Court
  • Understanding T Visas
  • Lawyer Regulation Considerations for Immigration Practitioners
  • Q&A with a former Immigration Judge

Chair:
Hillary G. Walsh, CEO, New Frontier Immigration Law

Faculty:
Hon. (Ret.) Molly Frazer, Former Immigration Judge
James D Lee, Senior Bar Counsel, State Bar of Arizona
Taylor Renfro-Sockrider, New Frontier Immigration Law
Natalia Sternau, New Frontier Immigration Law
Hillary G. Walsh, CEO, New Frontier Immigration Law

James D Lee, Senior Bar Counsel, State Bar of Arizona
graduated from the University of Nebraska College of Law in May 1987, and was admitted to the State Bar of Arizona in October 1987. He was a Deputy Maricopa County Attorney for nearly 3-1/2 years, and then began working at the State Bar of Arizona in 1991. He currently is a Senior Bar Counsel and Unauthorized Practice of Law Counsel. During his tenure at the State Bar, Mr. Lee has investigated allegations of lawyer misconduct and lack of professionalism, prosecuted formal bar complaints, and represented the State Bar in matters pending before the Arizona Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Arizona. Mr. Lee has spoken at various seminars and served on various State Bar committees and task forces that addressed the substantive ethical rules, lawyer discipline procedural rules, and professionalism among lawyers.
Molly Frazer, Immigration Judge, Department of Justice
Taylor Nicole Renfro
Hillary Gaston Walsh, New FrontierImmigration Law
is CEO of New Frontier Immigration Law. A former foster care and juvi-kid turned lawyer, Hillary Walsh helps immigrants live free in the United States. Outside of New Frontier, she is an adjunct law professor, mother of four, military wife, and an avid Phoenix Suns fan. In the past 10+ years of practicing immigration law, she's represented clients before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Nevada, the Ninth, Sixth, and Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeals, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and immigration courts nationwide. Hillary believes that there is a solution for every problem, and she injects that relentlessness into her approach to immigration law.
Natalia Sternau

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