THIS MONTH: Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) in College Sports, Year Three • Humanitarian Relief & Border Issues • Dealing with Loans in the Context of Divorces, Death, and other Family Disruptions • Licensure with a Criminal Record • Ethics Issues for Transactional Practice

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 4.00 hrs | 1.00 Ethics
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 2/28/2025
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    Hooked on CLE: March 2024
    4.19 out of 5 stars
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Employers are often faced with complex immigration status issues when they are trying to onboard new employees and complete the required Form I-9. If they fail to accept certain qualifying documentation, they can be subject to penalties for discrimination. This panel will address common difficult status issues employers should know.

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 0.75 hr | 0.25 Ethics
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 1/31/2025
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    Are You Work Authorized? Complex Immigration Status Puzzles for Employers
    4 out of 5 stars
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    Very helpful to both our role as an employer, and even more importantly helpful to understand for our organizational clients that are immigrants seeking employment.

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Hear updates on how the asylum ban and new expedited removal regulations are impacting people on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border, and discuss recent case law effecting asylum seekers in the Fifth Circuit. 

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 1.00 hr
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 1/31/2025
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    Asylum Updates (2023)
    4.73 out of 5 stars
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    Fascinating subject, and very relevant

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Learn how to approach and analyze criminal issues of inadmissibility and deportability, hear an overview of the categorical and modified categorical approach, discuss how to apply the approaches to issues that may arise in your cases, and obtain helpful and creative practice pointers.

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 0.75 hr | 0.50 Ethics
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 1/31/2025
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    Crimmigration (2023)
    5 out of 5 stars
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Just like actual families, family-based cases can get messy. Discuss some of the complexities involved in family-based cases such as complicated 245i derivative questions, bogus RFEs, marriage fraud findings, waivers, CSPA and other messy issues your clients might present to you.

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 0.75 hr | 0.25 Ethics
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 1/31/2025
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    Family Immigration Isn’t Always Easy
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What’s happening at the border? How can my client’s family members enter the US? What happens when there’s so much bad luck? Learn about best practices to help those trying to navigate the shifting laws and policies at the border. Topics include Asylum under the Circumvention of Lawful Pathways, Survivor visas, SIJS, Parole (Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, Venezuelan/Humanitarian/Family Reunification), CBP One, Operation Lone Star, Family Expedited Removal Management, and more! 

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 1.00 hr
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 1/31/2025
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    Humanitarian Relief and Border Issues
    5 out of 5 stars
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Precedential case law updates spanning 2022 to 2023, with a focus on decisions positive for noncitizens where possible! Hear a discussion on Supreme Court updates, as well as interesting precedent from the Fifth Circuit, other Circuits, and BIA. Topics will include asylum, crimmigration, and more!

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 1.00 hr
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 1/31/2025
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    Immigration Case Law Updates (2023)
    5 out of 5 stars
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Session 01: Pulling an Adjustment Out of Your Hat - Is all hope lost when a potential client entered the United States without inspection? NO! Explore many of the old, overlooked and forgotten tools that can be used to advance a client’s immigration. Topics include Western Hemisphere Priority Dates, CSPA, 245(i), Military PIP and travel on an advance parole for TPS and DACA applicants.   Session 02: A to Z’s of Consular Processing - Current trends, timelines, pitfalls, tips and strategies involving consular operations, including both NIV and IV. Session 03: Affidavits of Support - Examine when affidavits of support are required, what the exemptions and exceptions to providing an affidavit of support are, what documents are required, and how to document that the required documents do not exist. 

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 2.50 hrs
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 1/31/2025
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    Immigration Practice Essentials: Adjustments, Consular Processing, and Affidavits of Support
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Session 01: 237(a)(1)(H) and Other forms of Relief for LPRs - Waivers of removeability and other defenses to attempts to deport your client. Session 02: Maintenance of LPR Status, Here and Abroad - Everything you need to know about maintaining lawful permanent residency. In thirty minutes or less.

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 1.00 hr
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 1/31/2025
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    Lawful Permanent Resident Status: Maintenance and Forms of Relief
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The BIA’s attempt to save a sinking ship.

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 0.75 hr | 0.50 Ethics
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 1/31/2025
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    Matter of Fernandes: Non-Compliant and Knotty Notices to Appear
    5 out of 5 stars
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Session 01: Naturalization (and Denaturalization) Issue Spotting - Many individuals believe that once they have the naturalization certificate in their hand, they cannot be removed from the United States. While that is true for most people, those who had a flaw in their permanent residence process may not be able to naturalize, and may risk being placed in removal proceedings. Some who are naturalized by accident or fraud (including some unexpected issues) may find themselves in denaturalization proceedings later. Hear a discussion on common issues and how to evaluate a client’s case to determine whether a client can—or should—file for naturalization, as well as the risk of denaturalization in the future. Session 02:Mock Naturalization Interview - A mock naturalization interview with USCIS based on an applicant’s status as a lawful permanent resident for over five years. Hear an analysis and critique of the interview.

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 1.50 hrs | 0.25 Ethics
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 1/31/2025
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    Naturalization Issue Spotting and Mock Interview
    5 out of 5 stars
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An explanation of the current status of the litigation over DACA’s legality, the courtroom arguments for and against DACA, how the DACA litigation fits into trends at the U.S. Supreme Court and what DACA recipients can expect to happen next.

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 0.50 hr
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 1/31/2025
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    The Continuing Litigation Over DACA
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A discussion on the current state of prosecutorial discretion including the reinstatement of the Mayorkas Enforcement Memo and the Doyle Memo. Explore best practices for obtaining PD and the changes to PD after reinstatment of the Mayorkas Memo.

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 0.50 hr | 0.50 Ethics
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 1/31/2025
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    The Current State of Prosecutorial Discretion (2023)
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Explanations of concepts including unlawful presence, out of status and nonimmigrant intent as well as categories such as nonimmigrants, immigrants and citizens.

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 1.00 hr
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 1/31/2025
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    Understanding U.S. Immigration and Nationalization Laws (2023)
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Update on recent issues related to payments to foreign nationals and foreign entities, including forms, sourcing, and income tax treaty issues. Gain insight on: What questions to ask; Which forms to collect; How much tax to withhold; What to report; Which information to maintain; and What are your institution’s responsibilities.

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 1.00 hr
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 8/31/2024
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    Nonresident Alien Tax Updates (2023)
    4.86 out of 5 stars
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THIS MONTH: Geopolitics and Extreme Weather Impacts on the Energy Markets • Bow Your Head and Play: A Discussion on Kennedy v. Bremerton • Sign Right Here: A Survey of Provisions for Your Attorney-Client Agreements • Defensive Documentation from Hiring to Firing • Estate Tax: Best Strategies for Estates and Gifts Leading Up to 2026

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 4.00 hrs | 1.00 Ethics
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 4/30/2024
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    Hooked on CLE: May 2023
    4.23 out of 5 stars
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    Please note: Ratings are for sessions 1, 2, 3, and 5. I did not think session 4 was very good.

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Need ethics credit? We’ve got you covered! UT Law CLE’s First Friday Ethics streams live every first Friday of the month, and features some of our best ethics speakers and presentations for a total of 3.00 hrs ethics credit. Fulfill your entire annual ethics requirement in Texas in one day!   This month includes: (1.00 hr | 1.00 hr ethics) Sign Right Here A survey of provisions for your attorney client agreements from “must haves” to “optional”clauses. Claude E. Ducloux, Attorney at Law - Austin, TX   (1.00 hr | 1.00 hr ethics) You’ve Received a Grievance or Sanctions Motion – What Now? (REPLAY) Receiving a grievance or a sanctions motion can be very upsetting for lawyers, but it doesn’t have to be. Please join Scott Rothenberg for an informative, reassuring, step-by-step process on what to do when a grievance or sanctions motion comes knocking at your office door. Scott Rothenberg, Law Office of Scott Rothenberg - Bellaire, TX   (0.50 hr | 0.50 hr ethics)  Mental Health in Light of Difficult Clients and Difficult Practices (REPLAY) How to develop Post traumatic Growth and be psychologically and emotionally strong when working in the ongoing stress of working with trauma survivors. Review self-care and maintaining balance both professionally and personally. Bernadette Hassan Solórzano, Our Lady of the Lake University Community Counseling Service - San Antonio, TX (0.50 hr | 0.50 hr ethics)TBD Redaction “Fails" (REPLAY) This presentation explains how to properly shield confidential information in public filings. Matthew Murrell, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law - Austin, TX

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 3.00 hrs | 3.00 Ethics
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 1/31/2025
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    First Friday Ethics (January 2023)
    4.42 out of 5 stars
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    Outstanding

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A survey of provisions for your attorney client agreements from “must haves” to “optional”clauses.

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 1.00 hr | 1.00 Ethics
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 1/31/2025
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    Sign Right Here
    4.51 out of 5 stars
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    Very practical and helpful.

    Great presenter and a wealth of helpful information

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Many professionals are so focused on the familiar business or family immigration topics, that they forget to ask about ancestors. Gain insight to tools and examples of what to look for when interviewing a potential client and how to develop and file a citizenship case.

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 0.75 hr
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 12/31/2024
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    Acquired Citizenship
    4.58 out of 5 stars
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Session 1: New Focus on to NIWs - Entrepreneurs and investors may explore the National Interest Waiver category to pursue permanent resident status. Examine the category and review practical considerations in this option. Session 2: Navigating the H-2A and H-2B Filing Process - A discussion on the ever-changing landscape of the H-2A and H-2B filing processes. Session 3: PERM Labor Certification Updates - This panel will provide practical guidance and updates on PERM drafting trends. Issues discussed will include remote work situations, new SOC codes, good-faith compliance with regard to the Facebook settlement, and relevant BALCA summaries.

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  • Total Credit Hours:
  • 3.00 hrs | 0.50 Ethics
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  • TX, CA
  • TX MCLE credit expires: 12/31/2024
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    Business-Based Immigration: The Current Landscape for NIWs, H-2A and H-2B Visas, PERM
    4.46 out of 5 stars
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    Very useful course, specially about the H visas.

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