Significant Achievements and Activities

Co-Counsel with Attorney Karen Musalo in Abebe v. Gonzales, 432 F.3d 1037 (9th Cir., 2005), a case decided by eleven judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 2005. This case established the legal precedent that foreign-born parents of a U.S. citizen child may qualify for asylum if their child would be subjected to female genital mutilation in the parents' home country.

Frequent speaker at regional and national Immigration law seminars. Presentations include:

Effective Use of Expert Witnesses in Applications for Suspension of Deportation, National AILA Conference on Immigration Law, Phoenix, Arizona, June 1996
Immigration Practice and Procedures at the Portland INS Office, Northwest Regional Immigration Law Conference, Seattle, Washington, February 1997
Nonimmigrant Visas–The Business Five (B,E,H,L, TN), Northwest Regional Immigration Law Conference, Seattle, Washington, February 1998
Identifying and Contesting Removability and Inadmissibility Grounds, National AILA Conference on Immigration Law, Chicago, Illinois, June 2000
Ethical and Effective Client Representation; Northwest Regional Immigration Law Conference, Seattle, Washington, February 2001
Legal Ethics Issues regarding Conflicts of Interest; Northwest Regional Immigration Law Conference, Seattle, Washington, February 2003
Immigration Law and Defense, Relief and Impact of Real ID; Seattle, National Immigration Project Skills Seminar, Portland, Oregon, October 2005
Advanced Family Immigration Discussion, National AILA Conference on Immigration Law, San Antonio, Texas, June 2006
How to Recognize and Resolve Tricky Family Issues, Web Conference hosted by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, January 2007
Legal Ethics Regarding Lawyer Fees and Representation Agreements; Northwest Regional Immigration Law Conference, Seattle, Washington, February 2009.
I Beg Your Pardon Workshop on I-601 Applications for Waiver of Inadmissibility; National AILA Conference on Immigration Law, National Harbor, Maryland, June 2010.
Medical Grounds of Inadmissibility; National AILA Immigration Law Conference, San Diego, California, June 2011.

2011 Author of "Cancellation of Removal for Lawful Permanent Residents: Suggestions for Obtaining a Favorable Exercise of Discretion", an article published in AILA's The Waivers Book: Advanced Issues in Immigration Law Practice.

2006 Gerald Robinson Excellence in Immigration Advocacy Award from the Oregon Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Author of the 1997-98 Edition of the Thomson West Publication Immigration Act of 1990 Handbook.

Update Editor since 1991 of The National Immigration Project's Immigration Law and Defense, a two-volume treatise published semi-annually by Reuters/Thomson West.

Drafted and testified in support of Oregon Revised Statute 135.385(2)(d), a law which requires that judges advise criminal defendants of the potential immigration consequences of pleading guilty.

Rated "AV" since 1997 by Martindale Hubbell Lawyer Directory, its highest rating for attorney competency and ethics.

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