| 9:00 am – 9:15 am |
Introduction
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| 9:15 am – 10:15 am |
Panel I – Immigration Law Under the Second Trump Administration
Moderator:
Caitlin Miner-Legrand, Co-Director, Immigrant Justice Project, City Bar Justice Center
Speakers:
Sanam Ghandehari, Senior Immigration Attorney at Women for Afghan Women
Victoria Neilson, Supervising Attorney at National Immigrant Project
Hasan Shafiqullah, Immigration Supervising Attorney in The Legal Society’s Law Reform Unit
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| 10:20 am – 11:20 am |
Panel II – Due Process: The Role of Lawyers, USCIS Adjudicators and Immigration and Federal Courts
Moderator:
Patricia Pantaleon, Founder, Garcia Pantaleon & Associates PC
Speakers:
Hon. Carmen Maria Rey Caldas, former U.S. Immigration Judge
Melissa Chua, Co-Director Immigrant Protection Unit at NYLAG
Avideh Moussavian, former Senior Advisor to the Director at US Citizenship and Immigration Services, now Cornell Law Immigration Law and Policy Fellow
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| 11:20 am – 11:35 am |
Break
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| 11:35 am – 12:35 pm |
Panel III – Corporate Immigration Compliance
Moderator:
Alejandra Vargas, Partner, Duane Morris
Speakers:
Ted Chiappari, Partner, Duane Morris
Fatima Guillen-Walsh, Senior Legal Counsel, Employment North America, Reckitt
Amelie Sophie Vavrovsky, Co-founder, Formally
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| 12:35 pm – 1:35 pm |
Networking Lunch
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| 1:35 pm – 2:35 pm |
Panel IV – Recent Developments to the Travel Ban and Practical Guidance for Impacted Clients
Moderator:
Ludivine Van der Heyden, Co-Chair of the Immigration & Nationality Committee
Speakers:
Lenni Benson, Professor, New York Law School
Anwen Hughes, Senior Director of Legal Strategy, Refugee Programs, Human Rights First
Golnaz Fakhimi, Legal Director, Muslim Advocates
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| 2:40 pm – 3:40 pm |
Panel V – Recent Executive Orders and Legislations and Their Impact on Business and Employment Based Immigration:
How Best to Advise Your Client
Moderator:
Jeffrey Margolis, Founder, Margolis Law Firm
Speakers:
Poonam Gupta, Founder & Principal Attorney, Summit Legal PLLC
Parisa Karaahmet, Partner, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP
Marjan Kasra, Founder & Managing Attorney, The Law Office of Marjan Kasra
a.k.a Lawmaks
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| 3:40 pm – 4:00 pm |
Closing Remarks |