Federal Bar Association

Qui Tam Section: [VIRTUAL] Mediation of FCA Cases
2025-11-19 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | ME
**Program hosted in (ET) Time Zone**
Federal and State False Claims Act cases, intervened, non-intervened, partially intervened, along with 3730(H) anti-retaliation cases are increasingly being resolved through mediation. Time consuming ancillary FCA issues such as attorney fees, Federal and State claims, relator share, and multiple relator issues, are also ripe for mediation. Unfortunately, due to the complexity of the practice area and the ever-changing jurisprudence, there is a dearth of effective FCA mediators willing to take on these cases. Moreover, the list of relevant stakeholders often include Relators, Relators Counsel, Defense Counsel, U.S. Attorneys, Department of Justice Counsel, State Attorney Generals, and relevant impacted agencies.
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Presented by the FBA Qui Tam Section

Presenters
Hon. Craig M. Straw, Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Meredith S. Auten, Morgan Lewis

David M. Finkelstein, Civil Frauds Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Marc S. Raspanti Esq., Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP (Moderator)

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FBA Members: $0
Non-Members: $0

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Please note that CLE credit is not offered for this webinar.

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Webinar: Immigration Law in Flux: Key Updates from Courts and Agencies, Enforcement Trends, and the Road Ahead
2025-11-19 14:00 - 15:00 | ME
**Program hosted in (ET) time zone**
Advising individual clients on immigration-related matters can be difficult in an ever-shifting environment. This CLE provides attendees a timely and practical overview of the latest developments in U.S. immigration law. Participants will explore recent decisions from the Executive Office for Immigration Review, evolving agency policies and executive actions, and major Supreme Court decisions reshaping the legal landscape. The course will also examine current enforcement trends, the complex intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system, and key employment-related issues affecting noncitizens. Attendees will gain actionable insights to navigate these shifting dynamics and anticipate what lies ahead for practitioners.
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Presented by the FBA’s Professional Development Committee, Civil Rights Law Section, Federal Litigation Section, Immigration Law Section, Labor & Employment Section and the Younger Lawyers Division.

Presenters
Moderator: Ira Kurzban is a founder of the law firm of Kurzban, Kurzban, Tetzeli & Pratt, P.A., of Miami, Florida. He is a past-national President and former General Counsel of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and is a Fellow of the American Bar Association. He has litigated over hundred federal cases concerning the rights of aliens, including Jean v. Nelson, Commissioner v. Jean, and McNary v. Haitian Refugee Center, Inc., which he argued before the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Kurzban is an adjunct faculty member in Immigration and Nationality Law at the University of Miami School of Law. He is the author of Kurzban’s Immigration Law Sourcebook, the most widely used two-volume immigration source in the United States in its 19th Edition and he has lectured and otherwise published extensively in the field of immigration law, including articles in the Harvard Law Review and Columbia University Press. Mr. Kurzban has practiced Immigration and Nationality Law for over 40 years and has won numerous awards for his work. He was the first recipient of the Tobias Simon Pro Bono Service Award presented to him by the Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court for his work in protecting Haitian asylum seekers. He was selected as an Honorary Fellow by the University of Pennsylvania Law School for his work on behalf of refugees. He has been the recipient of the Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowship from Harvard Law School and in 2020 he received the Leonard J. Theberge Award for Private International Law from the American Bar Association.
Martin Rosenow is a Miami-based immigration attorney and a partner at Rosenow Taramasco P.A. Inspired by his grandfather, a prominent immigration attorney, Rosenow continues a family legacy in the field, advocating on behalf of clients in a wide range of employment- and family-based immigration matters.

Susan G. Roy began her legal career through the Department of Justice Attorney General Honors Program, as an Attorney Advisor at the Board of Immigration Appeals. She became an Assistant Chief Counsel and National Security Attorney for the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in Newark, NJ. From 2008-2010, she served as an Immigration Judge, also in Newark. Sue then entered private practice and is a solo practitioner specializing in complex criminal immigration cases and federal litigation. Most recently, Sue has become the Managing Attorney for the Seton Hall Law School Center for Social Justice’s Detention, Deportation, and Defense Initiative. Sue is the former Chair of both the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) NJ Chapter and the NJ State Bar Association Immigration Law Section. She is currently the Vice-Chair of the Municipal Court Practice Section and has been a member of the NJSBA Legislative Committee for several years. In 2024, Sue has been awarded the AILA Sam Williamson Mentor Award. In 2023, she received the NJSBA Distinguished Legislative Services Award. Sue has been a guest lecturer at many area law schools, and has taught as an adjunct professor at Rutgers Law School, University of DC Law School, and Mercer County College. She is on the faculty of the Immigration Trial Advocacy College and Vecina, two pro bono organizations that train litigation attorneys in trial advocacy skills. In addition, she has authored articles in the NJ Law Journal and the AILA Law Journal, among others. Sue is a member of the Round Table of Former Immigration Judges, and, through the Round Table, has been involved in over 70 amici briefs before SCOTUS, the federal courts of appeal, the NJ Supreme Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and more. As a Round Table member, in 2019, she was awarded the AILA Advocacy Award of the Year. She has been a speaker and/or moderator for many NJSBA conferences, in the areas of immigration, municipal court practice, ethics, LGBTQ+ rights, school law, and more. She has presented at numerous AILA national, regional, and local conferences, as well as the NYSBA, the Federal Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Mercer County Bar Association, the Practicing Law Institute, and many others.
Rebecca Sharpless is a faculty member of the University of Miami School of Law, where she is the founding director of the Immigration Clinic and teaches immigration law. With her clinic students, Professor Sharpless represents indigent noncitizens in removal proceedings and engages in litigation in U.S. district court and before the U.S. courts of appeals. Her award-winning book published by the University of California Press, Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned On ICE Air, examines our immigration enforcement system through the stories of two Somali men who were shackled for two days on a botched 2017 ICE Air flight. Professor Sharpless has received numerous awards and recognition for her work, including the 2025 Swarthmore College Eugene Lang Impact Award, multiple book awards (2024 IPPY bronze, 2024 Foreword Indies bronze, 2024 Readers’ Choice finalist), the 2024 Clinical Legal Education Association Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project (honorable mention), the 2021 University of Miami’s Provost’s Teaching Award, the 2019 Arthur C. Helton Memorial Human Rights Award (team defense of Somali 92), and the 2018 Elmer Fried Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

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Live Broadcast | FBA Member: $0
Live Broadcast | Nonmember: $95
On-Demand Broadcast | FBA Member: $50
On-Demand Broadcast | Nonmember: $95

CLE
Please note: CLE for this webinar has not been pre-approved.
MyLaw and the FBA will seek 1.0 General CLE credit hours in 60-minute states, and 1.2 General CLE credit hours in 50-minute states.
Posted credit hours are estimated and subject to respective state approval and rounding rules. CLE qualifications vary by state/jurisdiction.
For questions regarding this program, please contact MyLaw CLE by email: registration@mylawcle.com or phone: 877-406-8636.

Immigration Law Section: Habeas Without the Headache
2025-11-20 12:00 - 13:00
*Webinar hosted in (ET) Time Zone*

Habeas Without the Headache: A Friendly Approach to Understanding New Bond Decisions and Stepping into Immigration Habeas

The Immigration Law Section’s Newer Lawyers Division invites you to the third and final program in a three-part webinar series on federal immigration litigation. This focused, practice-ready session explains what remains of bond after Matter of Yajure Hurtado and recent BIA decisions—and how to shift to habeas when agency options stall. We’ll walk through practical on-ramps (co-counseling, reciprocity, federal licensure/pro hac vice), nuts-and-bolts templates, and responses to ICE transfer tactics. The overview will map the progression of arguments across federal district courts and offer informed predictions as those issues reach the circuit courts. Designed as a national overview with “demystify” components, it welcomes both federal practitioners and immigration attorneys new to habeas.

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Presented by the Immigration Law Section

Presenters

Kel White, Associate Director for Public Education & Training, Acacia Center for Justice
Kel White is the Associate Director for Public Education & Training at the Acacia Center for Justice, where they support the Habeas Bridge Project and the launch of Acacia’s free Practitioner Hub including templates and resources. For over a decade, Kel practiced detained removal defense and previously worked on the benefits side at a nonprofit—experience that drives their focus on expanding legal access nationwide, including across the South as people are transferred to Louisiana and Texas. Grounded in a movement-lawyering approach, Kel believes meaningful change happens through collaboration and shared power. Their writing includes AILA’s Think Immigration; “Strategies for Lactating Parents: A Removal Defense Advocate’s Guide”; and the Guide to Legal Access in Immigration Detention, with views also appearing in The New York Times letters.
Suchi Mathur, Senior Litigation Attorney, American Immigration Council
Suchi Mathur is a Senior Litigation Attorney with the American Immigration Council, where she works to protect the rights of noncitizens through affirmative litigation and practice advisories for immigration attorneys. Before joining the Council, Suchi worked at a migrants-rights organization in Mexico. Previously, she was an attorney at The Bronx Defenders, where she represented individuals incarcerated by ICE in federal petitions and in Immigration Court. Suchi also spent a year clerking for a federal magistrate judge in New York. She holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and a B.A. from Brown University.

Rebecca Cassler, Senior Litigation Attorney, American Immigration Council
Rebecca Cassler is a Senior Litigation Attorney with the American Immigration Council, where she works to protect the rights of noncitizens through affirmative litigation and other projects. Before joining the Council, Rebecca worked as a litigator at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project and clerked at the federal district and circuit court levels. She holds a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School and a B.A. from Oberlin College.

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Event Contact
Maya Lugasy

mlugasy@brown-immigration.com

CLE
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Q: How do I access the virtual webinar?
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A: Please contact Maya Lugasy(mlugasy@brown-immigration.com) or sections@fedbar.org for any other questions.

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Dayton Chapter: Federal Court Practice Seminar
2025-11-20 12:30 - 17:00 | Walter H. Rice Federal Building and U.S Courthouse (Room 150), 200 West Second Street, Dayton, OH, 45402, United States
This multi-session seminar is hosted by the Federal Bar Association (FBA) Dayton Chapter and meets a prerequisite for admission to the bar of the Southern District of Ohio. Speakers include district court, bankruptcy court, and magistrate judges from the Dayton seat of court. The program is pending approval for 3.0 general hours of CLE credit from The Supreme Court of Ohio.

COURSE OUTLINE
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM — Registration and Opening Remarks
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM — A View from the Bench
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM — Practice in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Ohio
2:30 PM – 2:40 PM — Break
2:40 PM – 3:10 PM — Overview of Removal to Federal Court
3:10 PM – 4:10 PM — Practice in the Southern District of Ohio
4:10 PM – 4:30 PM — PACER and CM/ECF
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM — Swearing-in Ceremony
** This seminar is scheduled to be held IN PERSON, NOT VIRTUALLY. However, in the unforeseen event that the seminar must be held virtually, then a GoToMeeting webinar link and password will be sent to registrants, along with login instructions and Seminar materials, via email in the days before the event. However, again, the seminar is scheduled to take place in-person in Room 150 of the Walter H. Rice Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 200 West Second Street, Dayton, Ohio 45402.
** NOTE: A SEPARATE APPLICATION AND PAYMENT IN ADDITION TO REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT FOR THIS SEMINAR IS REQUIRED FOR ADMISSION TO THE BAR OF THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO. INFORMATION REGARDING BAR ADMISSION TO THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO CAN BE FOUND ON THE COURT’S WEBSITE AT: https://www.ohsd.uscourts.gov/
Any questions or concerns can be directed to: DaytonFBAEvents@gmail.com

Los Angeles Chapter: 22nd Annual Bankruptcy Ethics Symposium
2025-11-21 09:00 - 13:15 | Roybal Federal Building, Conference Room 1339, 255 E. Temple St, Los Angeles, California, 90017, United States
The Los Angeles Chapter of the Federal Bar Association is pleased to present the 22nd Annual Bankruptcy Ethics Symposium. Participants can attend either in-person or by Zoom. (Zoom instructions will be sent the week of the event)
Coffee, tea, bagels, and pastries will be provided to our in-person attendees.
FOUR PROGRAMS:
AI Revolution: Transforming Legal Practice? Or Just Old-Fashioned Ethics?”
Civility Through Their Eyes: Judges and Counsel in Conversation
The Ethics of Mediation: 30 Years of Lessons in Mediation
Insights on Implicit Bias: Statistics, War Stories, and Strategies
SPEAKERS:
Honorable Sandra Klein, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California
Honorable Barry Russell, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California
Honorable Deborah Saltzman, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California
Honorable Erithe A. Smith, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California
Professor Nancy B. Rapoport, Garman Turner Gordon Professor of Law, Boyd School of Law, and Affiliate Professor of Business Law & Ethics, Lee Business School, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
J. Scott Bovitz, Bovitz & Spitzer
Howard Ehrenberg, Greenspoon Marder
Misty Perry Isaacson, MPI LAW, P.C.
Dmitri Ragano, Director of Digital Platforms and Strategy, Hoag Health Systems
Sharon Weiss, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Program Chair: Joseph Boufadel, Salvato Boufadel LLP
Time: Friday, November 21, 2025 @ 9:00 am – 1:15 pm
Registration opens: 8:30 am
Location: Roybal Federal Building, Conference Room 1339 (13th Floor) – In Person & Zoom
255 E. Temple St,
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Cost:
$20 FBA Member in person
$35 CDCBAA, LABF, OCBF, IEBF or SDBF member in person
$35 CLA & Insolvency Law Committee in person
$50 Non-Member in person
Complimentary – Federal Judge/Clerk/Law Student in person
$20 FBA Member Remote
$35 CDCBAA, LABF, OCBF, IEBF or SDBF member remote
$35 CLA & Insolvency Law Committee remote
$50 Non Member Remote
Complimentary – Federal Judge/Clerk/Law Student Remote
To register, please click here.
MCLE: 4 hours of CLE comprising of: (A) 1 hour of Legal Ethics; (B) 1 hour of Technology in the Practice of Law; (C) 1 hour of Civility in the Legal Profession; (D) 1 hour of Implicit Bias.
MCLE: 1.00 Hr. of Legal Ethics; 1.00 Hr. of Implicit Bias; 1.00 Hr. of Technology; 1.00 Hr. of Civility; This activity has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. The FBA certifies that this activity conforms to the standards of approved education activities prescribed by the rules and regulations of the State Bar of California governing minimum continuing legal education.
