Immigration Ethics Roundtable
Category: On Demand
Member Price: $200
Non-Member Price: $250
Product Code: ON107722
Areas of Law: Ethics, Immigration
CLE Credits
| NJ CLE: | NJ CLE information: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 3.5 hours of total CLE credit, including 3.5 in Ethics (Full Credits Available: NJ Ethics: 3.5). |
| NY CLE (t&nt): | NY Ethics Non-Transitional: 3.0 |
| PA CLE: | PA Ethics Credit: 2.5
$12.00 fee – separate check payable to NJICLE must be submitted at the end of the program |
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Immigration attorneys regularly face a plethora of ethical issues in a variety of practice areas. With our new program, a panel of experts in ethics and immigration will discuss specific and common scenarios that practitioners routinely face and discuss how to deal with each of them, or in some instances, to avoid them! Our program covers ethics questions in various immigration areas, including deportation, business immigration, family immigration, and practice management.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- Firm Management
- Websites and advertising
- Tracking filings and deadlines
- Staff supervision
- The unauthorized practice of law
- Client Management
- Communication with clients dealing with language barriers
- Initial contact and representation
- Obligation to inform clients of the negative consequences of violating visa conditions
- Retainer agreements and scope of representation and creating the attorney client relationship
- Business Immigration
- Who does the attorney represent and how far does that representation extend?
- Conflicts of Interest
- Dual Representation
- Representation after job termination
- Confidentiality
- Family Immigration
- Duty to investigate for fraudulent marriage
- Dual Representation
- Battered Spouses
- When the marriage falls apart before a visa is granted
- Criminal Law and Immigration
- Deportation
- Ineffective assistance of counsel
- Competence Issues
- Candor towards the tribunal
- Frivolous asylum filings and sanctions
- Ethics of social media posts