This 2-hour program that will cover
family and immigration issues including Special Immigrant Juveniles Status
(SIJS) petitions divorces (custody issues if a parent is undocumented), powers
of attorney and custody documents to have prepared if ICE comes knocking at the
door, US passport issues for US citizen children (single parent households and
households with undocumented parents), and more!
This CLE is approved for
credit through June 13, 2019.
Presenters:
Rebecca Scholtz | Staff Attorney, CLINIC’s
Vulnerable Populations Project
Rebecca Scholtz is a Training and
Legal Support Staff Attorney with the new Defending Vulnerable Populations
Project. Prior to joining CLINIC, Rebecca worked with Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid's
Immigration Law Project, first as a Liman Fellow and then as a staff attorney.
Her work at MMLA focused on representation of unaccompanied children, and she
also provided training, technical assistance, pro bono program development, and
advocacy on children's immigration issues.
Cathleen A. Sykes |
Attorney, Sykes Family Law, P.A.
Cathleen A. Sykes is the Owner and
Founding Attorney of Sykes Family Law, P.A. A graduate of William Mitchell
College of Law, Cathleen spent her time at law school volunteering with
low-income families at Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, and at the
Hennepin County Juvenile and Family Justice Center’s Family Law Clinic and Child
Support Workshop. She focused her legal studies on women’s rights and gender
equality, helping implement a Law Students for Reproductive Justice student
association on campus and instilling William Mitchell as an annual participant
in the Williams Institute Sexual Orientation Law Moot Court.
Iris
Ramos | Attorney, Law Office of Iris Ramos, LLC
Iris Ramos is the
Owner and Founding Attorney of The Law Office of Iris Ramos LLC. Shortly after
graduating from the University of Minnesota Law School, Iris started her law
firm with a vision of helping individuals, including those in the Latino
community, achieve their legal needs by providing caring, informed and
supportive services in the areas of family and immigration law. Iris volunteers
her time providing free legal clinics at the Consulate of Ecuador in the areas
of family and immigration law and the Chrysalis Center for family law as well as
monthly Spanish phone legal clinics for the Volunteer Lawyers Network and
volunteer services for the Immigrant Law Center. Iris firmly believes in giving
back to her community and also enjoys investing her time as a board member and
vice-chair of Centro Tyrone Guzman and board member of Latino Economic
Development Center. She is currently a member of the American Immigration
Lawyers Association, Minnesota State Bar Association, Hennepin County Bar
Association and is a Limited Scope Attorney for the Hennepin County Family
Justice Center.
Patricia Perez Jenkins | Attorney, Perez-Jenkins
Law, LLC
Patricia Perez-Jenkins worked at Southern MN Regional
Legal Services in the Refugees, Immigrant and Migrant unit from 2005 till 2009
working in the areas of employment, civil and immigration law. She left legal
aid to start her own practice in 2010. Currently her solo practice concentrates
on immigration and family law cases specializing in victims of crime, domestic
abuse, family immigration and waivers. She contracts with Civil Society to
continue to provide services to victims who cannot afford a private practice
attorney. Since 2011 she also teaches, as an Adjunct Associate Professor, a
course entitled Law in Practice at the University of Minnesota Law School.
She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School, 2005. She has a
A.B. from Harvard & Radcliffe College (1998) in Government/Political
Science.
CLE
Credits:
2.0 Standard CLE Credits approved
| Event Code: 240144
Cost:
MSBA Members: $44.95
Non-MSBA Members:
$84.95