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Immigration Law Section: Federal Immigration Litigation Part Two
**Webinar hosted in (ET) Time Zone**
The Immigrant Law Section’s Newer Lawyers Division invites you to the second part of a three-part series on federal immigration litigation. This second webinar will address filing lawsuits for applications that are processing outside of stated processing times and lawsuits filed under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).
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Presented by the Immigration Law Section
Presenters
Kate Melloy Goettel, Associate Clinical Law Professor, University of Iowa College of Law.
Kate Melloy Goettel is an associate clinical law professor at the University of Iowa College of Law, where she directs the Federal Impact Litigation Clinic. Before joining Iowa Law, Goettel served as senior legal director for the American Immigration Council, where she led impact litigation focusing on unlawful detention, the laws surrounding immigrant youth, interior enforcement, and family separation. Prior to that she was a litigator at the National Immigrant Justice Center and senior litigation counsel at the Department of Justice. She has practiced in nearly 40 federal district courts, eight courts of appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2019, Kate received the NGO Lawyer of the Year award from the Federal Bar Association’s Immigration Law Section and in 2022, received the association’s Barry Frager Award for service to the section.

Lauren McClure, Partner, Kriezelman Burton & Associates, LLC.
Lauren McClure is a Partner with Kriezelman Burton & Associates, LLC. She is admitted to practice law in the state of Illinois. She focuses her practice exclusively in the areas of immigration law, including family-based immigration, asylum, removal defense, employment-based immigration and federal court litigation. Lauren is admitted to practice before various District Courts and U.S. Courts of Appeals across the U.S.She is presently an active member of the AILA Chicago Chapter and is a Co-Chair of the ICE OPLA Liaison Committee and member of the Advocacy Committee, as well as a member of the Removal Defense Section Steering Committee for AILA National. She is also the Vice Chair of the Federal Bar Association, Immigration Law Section’s Board.
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Registration Fees
- Complimentary for FBA Members & Non-Members
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Event Contact
Mary Sirmans
mary@amarylaw.com
CLE
Please note CLE will not be offered for this event.
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A: Please contact Mary Sirmans (mary@amarylaw.com) or sections@fedbar.org for any other questions.
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