This interactive program features new, updated sessions on the immigration consequences of crimes, intensive exercises, more opportunity for questions, and break-out groups for criminal and immigration lawyers. -- Separate and easy-to-understand session for criminal lawyers on (1) protecting clients against immigration consequences, (2) safe plea bargains (this time, covering new law on domestic violence cases), and (3) avoiding a deportable sentence -- Separate session for immigration lawyers on updated defense strategies on obtaining relief in immigration court, such as cancellation, adjustment, asylum, withholding, CAT, plus new definitions of sentence and conviction -- Joint session for both immigration and criminal lawyers, featuring a new approach of in-depth coverage of selected topics, with brief coverage of the most important lessons in other areas, coupled with extensive answers to participants' questions on the immigration consequences of convictions for various common offenses -- Joint session on obtaining post-conviction relief to erase a conviction, featuring a new approach: (1) one hour on "how to win post-conviction relief," with a discussion of how to match the vehicle with the grounds to win the case, and (2) one hour on how to make sure that the order vacating the conviction or sentence will be accepted in immigration court as eliminating adverse immigration consequences. Register for SF or LA seminar SCHEDULE Check-in: 8:30 am - 9:00 am Session: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm IMPORTANT INFORMATION -- Walk-in registrations are welcome on a space-available basis -- Lunch and parking fees (if applicable) are your responsibility -- Payment is due before the seminar MCLE The Law Offices of Norton Tooby certifies that this activity conforms to the standards of approved education activities prescribed by the rules and regulations of the State Bar of California governing Minimum Continuing Legal Education for 6.25 hours of credit. Presenters Katherine Brady, Senior Staff Attorney, Immigration Legal Resource Center. Author of Defending Immigrants in the Ninth Circuit (2008), and the chapter on "Representing the Non-Citizen Criminal Defendant" in CEB's California Criminal Law Procedure and Practice. Norton Tooby Author of Tooby's Guide to Criminal Immigration Law (2008), Tooby's Crimes of Moral Turpitude (2008), California Post-Conviction Relief (2008), Criminal Defense of Immigrants (2007), Aggravated Felonies (2006), Safe Havens: How to Identify and Construct Non-Deportable Convictions (2005), Post-Conviction Relief for Immigrants (2004), and California Expungement Manual (2002). To be notified when the next seminar is scheduled, click here.