Victims’ Rights for Immigration Practitioners and Advocates

Jul 10, 2024 2:00PM—4:00PM

Cost Free and Open to OVW LAV grantees/sub-grantees, ELSI grantees, STOP sub-grantees, and potential grantees

Event Contact Maria Lazzarino | Email

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Join us for a CLE Webinar

Victims’ Rights for Immigration Practitioners and Advocates

Wednesday, July 10, 2024, from 2-4pm ET

(1-3pm CT/12-2pm MT/11am-1pm PT/8-10am HT) 

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This webinar for intermediate-level practitioners will explore crime victims’ rights, how to effectively assert an immigrant survivor’s rights in the criminal-legal system, and best practices for practitioner communication with law enforcement and prosecutors. The webinar will also address Brady v. Maryland and best practices in responding to subpoenas requesting an immigrant survivor’s immigration case information.

Speakers:  

  • Kelly Byrne, Staff Attorney, ASISTA Immigration Assistance 
  • Erika Gonzalez, Training and Technical Assistance Managing Attorney, Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking
  • Meg Garvin, Executive Director & Clinical Professor of Law, National Crime Victim Law Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School

Note: Approved for 2 TX MCLE credit hours.

Who can participate in this webinar? ASISTA is offering this webinar to OVW LAV grantees/sub-grantees, ELSI grantees, STOP sub-grantees, and potential grantees.

Please contact Maria Lazzarino at manager@asistahelp.org with any questions.

This project was supported by Grant No.15JOVW-23-GK-05161-MUMU awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Justice.