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Temporary Workers Visas Employment The Act of 1952 established a new nonimmigrant class of temporary workers.’ Three types of temporary workers dealt with in this statute are: (1) Those of distinguished merit and ability (H-l); (2) Other temporary workers to perform services for which qualified American workers are not available (H-2); (3) Alien trainees (H-3). […]

Criminal Litigation Now we have a case called Montejo case. And when this came out, I was fortunate enough to have a discussion with Henry Bemprod who’s now one of our magistrates. And he was telling me,” all was lost, all was lost” you know after Montejo. And then in Federal Court, it really kind

Child Sexual Assault Trevino versus Taylor Trevino versus Taylor that recognizes, get this, the right to effective assistance of counsel on writ of habeas corpus. OH MY GOD! So, read it! Read it and bask in the glory of success of our great colleague Warren Wolf. Thank you for that great introduction, Warren. I’m speaking

Court Appointed Attorneys I’m a little notorious about customs so if it bothers you, I’ll apologize in the beginning. I’ve had a landmark in my life! I started drawing social security this year and as you get older you have situations where you look back and you think; what in the world did I ever

Immigration Legislative Update Given the nature of the session and how papers are typically due well in advance with Wesley Duncan. You will get an email about 80-90 page paper — with every text of every single bill that’s in here. So that way what we can focus on for the purpose of this afternoon

Criminal Litigation Coming to listen to what I hope would be an interesting talk! I’m not here to read the rules of the appellate procedure to you because you can do that, all by yourself. And that’s what a, lots of appellate seminars are, is they talk about the rules of appellate procedure and how

Criminal Case Investigation Jury wouldn’t have 5 minutes, the part of that illustration is “Sometimes you got to think outside the box”, and that’s why sometimes, the unwinnable case is more fun. Okay! Man you got toped to the prosecutor, you get your—you get your recommendation, you get your recommendation from them, you got your

Preliminary Petition Documents (1) General considerations. Nonimmigrant status under this section cannot be granted unless a petition to classify the worker or workers is filed by the importing employer and is approved by the Attorney General, after consultation with the appropriate agencies of the Government, usually the Department of Labor. Approval of the petition merely

Right to Counsel and Statements Ok, we talked about that court of criminal procedure 1.051C; if an indigent defendant is entitled to and requests appointed counsel and if adversarial judicial proceedings have been initiated, the appointing authority shall appoint counsel as soon as possible! But not later than 1-3 working days. It depends on the