Recent Developments in Immigration Law and Enforcement
1.0 Hour MCLE (General)
Join us for an engaging panel discussion exploring the latest updates in U.S. immigration law and enforcement. Our panel of experts will provide timely insights on evolving legal standards, policy changes, and the real-world impacts on individuals, families, businesses, and the government.
Monday, Oct. 6 at 12:00 PM (Pacific)
Zoom details will be provided to registered attendees.
This event is complimentary, but pre-registration is required.
Margaret Stock is a partner at Cascadia Cross-Border Law Group, LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. She focuses her practice on immigration and citizenship law. Margaret is a nationally known expert on immigration and national security laws, and has testified regularly before Congressional committees on immigration, homeland security, and military matters. As a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Military Police, U.S. Army Reserve, Margaret has extensive experience with U.S. military issues. She has also worked as a professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and as an adjunct instructor at the University of Alaska. Margaret has served on the board of the Federal Bar Association’s Immigration Law Section and is a former member of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration. In 2013, she was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow (“genius grant” recipient) by the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Margaret received her law degree, bachelor's degree in government, and Master's in public administration from Harvard University and holds a Masters in Strategic Studies from the Army War College.
Monica Glicken is the CEO/Executive Director and General Counsel of Public Law Center of Orange County. Monica served as the Directing Attorney of PLC’s Immigration Unit from 2018 to 2022, where she worked to strengthen PLC’s partnerships with community-based and advocacy organizations serving Orange County’s immigrant and refugee communities. Previously, after graduating magna cum laude from Harvard University, Monica served as a Fulbright Fellow in the Philippines and an Americorps Member and Service Team Leader with City Year Greater Philadelphia, a non-profit organization focused on youth education and development. Monica then graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and clerked for the Honorable Anita B. Brody of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Monica began her career in Immigration Law as an Attorney Advisor at the Immigration Court in Chicago, Illinois. A decade-long tenure practicing immigration law in private practice followed, first in Chicago, then in Seal Beach, California. Prior to joining PLC, Monica served as a Counseling Attorney and Adjunct Lecturer in UC Irvine School of Law’s Immigration Rights Clinic. As the child of immigrants from Cambodia and the Philippines, Monica is a long-time advocate for those who must fight to be heard, working tirelessly to promote greater access to justice and community empowerment.
Ben Barron is a top tier, first chair trial lawyer who handles complex, high-stakes business disputes, white collar criminal defense cases, and corporate internal investigations. Prior to joining KAS, Ben served as the Chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Orange County, as Special Counsel to the United States Attorney on Opioids and as Deputy Chief of the International Narcotics, Money Laundering, and Racketeering Section.
During his fifteen-year career as a federal prosecutor, Ben successfully tried and/or supervised 33 jury trials to verdict. Ben received numerous awards in recognition of his service in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, including DOJ’s prestigious Director’s Award for Superior Performance by an Assistant United States Attorney, an OCDETF Director’s Award for Individual Achievement, the Department of Homeland Security’s SAC Achievement Award, and the Prosecutor of the Year Award from the California Narcotic Officers’ Association. Ben served as a law clerk for the Honorable Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He received his law degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was Articles Editor for the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
Nahal Kazemi (Moderator) is an assistant professor of law at Chapman University's Fowler School of law, where she teaches national security law and torts. She was previously a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State and taught the Columbia Law School Immigration and Refugee Law Clinic while working as an attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell. Nahal received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and an A.B. in government from Harvard College.
Up to 1 hour of MCLE credit approval is pending from the State Bar of California.
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