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Join the UDC Latino Law Students Association and the UDC
National Lawyers Guild to discuss a rising issue within Immigration Law. Can an undocumented Immigrant Become A Lawyer? The DREAM Act, DREAM Lawyers and the Future of Immigration Policy & Law
Co-sponsored by:
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
Hispanic National Bar Association
Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia
Moderator: Fernando Rivero, Hispanic Bar Association
SPEAKERS:
Cesar Vargas, J.D. Applicant to the New York Bar
Professor Kristina Campbell, UDC Immigration Clinic- Lead Attorney
Moderator: Fernando Rivero, Hispanic Bar Association
Speakers: Cesar Vargas, J.D. Applicant to the New York Bar
Professor Kristina Campbell, UDC Immigration Clinic- Lead Attorney Speakers Bio:
Cesar Vargas is a Staten Islander who came to the
U.S. from Mexico illegally as a 5-year-old. He is requesting New York State to
let him practice as a Bar-certified attorney. Cesar Vargas, 29, graduated
from CUNY School of Law with a 3.7 grade-point average and passed New
York bar exam on his first try. In October, he mailed his application to be
admitted to the Bar. The decision is up to a committee at the New York State
Supreme Court’s Appellate Division in Brooklyn. If accepted, Vargas would be
the state’s — and maybe the country’s — first lawyer without legal immigration
status. But he may have to argue his case in court first. He once dreamed of becoming a military lawyer or a
prosecutor. Now, he’s thinking of starting his own firm. He has joined with
other undocumented law graduates, known as the DREAM Bar Association.
See link to interview with Cesar here:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46979745/#50676678
Professor Campbell is a career public interest
attorney, specializing in civil litigation on behalf of immigrants and low-wage
workers.
Kristina began her career in 2002 as a Staff Attorney
with the statewide farmworker program of the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society
in Charlottesville, Virginia, and in 2004 she joined the statewide farmworker
program at Community Legal Services in Phoenix, Arizona as a Staff Attorney.
From 2006 to 2009, Kristina was a Staff Attorney with the Mexican American
Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) in Los Angeles, California, where
she engaged in impact immigrants’ rights litigation in Arizona and California.
Fernando Rivero has been an Assistant Attorney
General at the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia
since 2005. Mr. Rivero currently practices civil prosecution in the Attorney
General's Civil Enforcement Section, representing approximately a dozen
government agencies and enforcing their legal mandates through litigation in
Superior Court, the Office of Administrative Hearings, and various Boards and
Commissions. Prior to the Attorney General's Office, Mr. Rivero was Chief of
Staff and Legislative Counsel to Councilmember Jim Graham in the Council of the
District of Columbia.
He received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law
Center in 1998. He has been a member of the Hispanic Bar Association of the
District of Columbia since the late 1990s, currently serving as
President-Elect.
He chairs the Hispanic National Bar Association's DREAM
Initiative Task Force. He has served also on the Board of the non-profit
Spanish Education Development Center.
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