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Breakout Sessions for lawyers
Of course attorneys are welcome to attend all sessions of the
conference, many of which will include lawyer presenters and legal themes.
We anticipate that many of these general sessions will be approved for CLE
credit by the time of the conference. In addition to the general
sessions, however, the College of Law has organized two breakout sessions
on Saturday that are aimed specifically at lawyers. More details about
these sessions are set out below.
Contacts:
Saturday morning Panel for Lawyers
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
- Cross-cutting Issues for Lawyers in New Destination
Communities
- Moderator: Joan Heminway, College of Law, UTK
- Community Commentator: Coral Getino, Tennessee
Association of Professional Interpreters and Translators and Latino Task
Force of Community Economic Development Network of East Tennessee
Immigration Law 101 for Non-Immigration Attorneys
Christina Kleiser, adjunct professor of
Immigration
Law
UT College of Law
Cultural Competency for Lawyers Representing Latino
Immigrants
María Clara Mejía, co-founder,
Conexión Américas
Nashville
The Ethics of Representing Latino Clients with Limited English
Proficiency
Mary Griffin, staff attorney
Tenn. Dept of
Commerce and
Insurance
Saturday Afternoon Concurrent Sessions for
Lawyers
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
- Representing Latino Immigrants Accused of Crime
- Michael Holley, Federal Public Defender, Nashville
- Mike
Whalen,
Law Offices of Mike Whalen, Knoxville
- Moderator: Dwight Aarons, College of Law,
UTK
- Community Commentator: Santos Aguilar, Alianza del
Pueblo
- Representing Latino Workers in Labor & Employment
Matters
- Jennifer Rosenbaum, Southern Poverty Law Center,
Montgomery, Alabama
- Doug Stevick, Southern Migrant Legal Services, Nashville
- Amy Sugimori, National Employment Law Project, New York
City
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Moderator: Jeff Hirsch, College of Law, UTK
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Community Commentator: TBA
- Poverty Law Issues and Latino Immigrants in
Tennessee
- Taxes:
- Mary Gillum, staff attorney,
Legal Aid Society, Oak Ridge
- Paula Trujillo, paralegal, Legal Aid
Society,
Oak
Ridge
- Housing:
- Guadalupe Luna, professor, Northern
Illinois University law
school
- Julián Samora Research
Institute
- General Issues for Legal Aid:
- McKenna Cox, staff
attorney, Legal Aid of East Tennessee, Johnson City
"Legal Aid and
Immigrant Representation in Tennessee: What We Do Now and
What We Can Do Better."
Bio
Moderator: TBA
Community Commentator: Alma Severiano, Alianza del Pueblo
- Going Deeper with Cultural Competency for
Lawyers
- María Clara Mejía,
co-founder, Conexión
Américas,
Nashville
- Moderator: Paula Williams, College of Law, UTK
- Community Commentator: John Sanchez, Tennessee Association of
Professional Interpreters and Translators
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