Immigration Law Section: Law Library of Congress – Legal Research and Writing

Join the Immigration Law Section’s Newer Lawyers Division for their webinar series. These webinars enable attendees to receive education and mentoring from seasoned immigration attorneys or specialists in specific areas of immigration law. Panelists Shadi Karimi, Peter Roudik, and Barbara Bavis will provide a general overview of the Library of Congress Law Library and its services on foreign and comparative law. This webinar will also include a discussion of the online products available to lawyers and how these materials have been used when working with individual clients from Iran and Afghanistan.

Presented by: Immigration Law Section & Younger Lawyers Division

Registration is Closed

Presenters

Shadi Karimi, Esq., LL.M., is a New York licensed attorney, educated in both Civil Law and Common Law systems. She provides affirmative asylum representation, through Human Rights First’s Project Afghan Legal Assistance (PALA), and serves as a Foreign and Comparative Law Consultant to the Law Library of Congress.  Ms. Karimi is active in offering pro bono immigration services, including removal defense.  She is a graduate of American University, Washington College of Law, and Azad University of Tehran. Ms. Karimi is a member of the Federal Bar Association Immigration Law Section (FBA ILS), and American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).

Peter Roudik is an Assistant Law Librarian of Congress for Legal Research. He coordinates research on all issues of U.S., foreign, comparative, and international law for Congress and other branches of government. He also provides research on the laws of Russia and other former Soviet republics.  Before joining the Law Library in 1996, Dr. Roudik worked as a research scholar at the University of Chicago Law School, served as a legal advisor to the Russian Parliament, and taught law at the Moscow Institute of Technology.  He holds an MA from the U.S. Naval War College, a JSD from the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Science, and a JD from the State University of Moscow.  Dr. Roudik is a member of the DC Bar. He has been a guest lecturer at Howard and Tufts Universities.  He has been featured at various professional conferences and his articles on legal developments in the countries of his jurisdiction have been published in legal periodicals in the U.S. and abroad.

Barbara Bavis is the Bibliographic and Research Instruction Librarian for the Law Library of Congress. In this position, she organizes the Law Library’s legal and legislative research class offerings, provides presentations to a wide range of patrons¾congressional staff members, federal government employees, and members of the public. She also provides legal research services to patrons, both at the reference desk in the Law Library Reading Room and via the Law Library’s Ask a Librarian service. Before joining the Law Library of Congress in 2012, Ms. Bavis was a practicing attorney at LeClairRyan, a former National Law Journal Top 250 firm, where she represented clients in a range of immigration, labor and employment, and civil cases. Ms. Bavis then went on to provide reference services for the Department of Justice Libraries system before serving as the Faculty Services Librarian at Lincoln Memorial University’s Duncan School of Law. There, she was responsible for assisting faculty members with the publication process, administrating the Student Research Assistant Program, and teaching in the Lawyering Skills Program, where she provided classes on legal research and writing. Ms. Bavis holds a BA in history from Duke University, a JD from the University of North Carolina School of Law, and an MSLS with a specialization in law librarianship from Catholic University. She is an associate member of the Virginia State Bar.

Registration

Registration is Closed.

Registration for this event will close November 8 at 1PM ET.

FBA Members – $0
Nonmembers – $75

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No refunds will be made for cancellations received after the close of business on November 1, 2022. No-shows will be billed. Substitutions may be made at any time upon notification. Please contact Daniel Hamilton at dhamilton@fedbar.org with cancellation and/or substitution requests.

CLE

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