This webinar will provide an overview of basic asylum law and bars to asylum. We will discuss the legal standards for establishing persecution, including persecution by non-state actors; cover protected grounds for asylum; and address common bars to asylum, from the one-year to particularly serious crimes. In addition, the webinar will discuss the importance of credibility determinations.

Deadline to register: 11/16/09
1.5 MCLE

Presenters:
Dan Torres, ILRC Staff Attorney
Dan's work includes combating immigration provider fraud, conducting know your rights presentations, providing technical assistance to pro bono attorneys who are handling cases in the federal courts of appeals, and serving as the ILRC's Attorney of the Day. He is also the co-author of ILRC's publication, Motions to Suppress. Before joining the ILRC, Dan represented clients as a staff attorney at the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation in Sacramento, worked as a clinical instructor at the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic, and served as a staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Scott A. Mossman, The Law Office of Scott A. Mossman
Scott's private practice emphasizes representation of asylum seekers, family-based applicants, immigrants with criminal records, and others in removal proceedings. He has mentored numerous pro bono attorneys representing asylum applicants through the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco. He also has mentored law students at the California Asylum Representation Clinic at Boalt Hall. Scott has written and spoken about asylum law in various forums, including testimony about the Real ID Act before the San Francisco Human Rights Commission and commentary as a panelist discussing Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication at Stanford Law School. He is a graduate of King Hall at UC Davis and serves on the UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic Alumni Council.


NOTE: Registration is limited to one registrant per connection. We only provide MCLE credit to those who have registered and paid the full fee. All participants must register by the deadline. In order to receive the special webinar dial-in number and weblink, please make sure to provide us with your most commonly used e-mail address. The ILRC will e-mail registrant with the special webinar dial-in number, weblink, and necessary materials a few days before the webinar date.