Immigration attorney vs student attorney

Differences between immigration attorney and student attorney duties and responsibilities

Immigration attorney example responsibilities.

• Achieve a high success rate for full caseload, including after submission of complex RFE responses.
• Manage highly demanding and detail-orient immigration litigation process as both a leader and member of legal team
• Track LCA and maintain DOL public access files.
• Prepare immigrant employment-base petitions under preference categories EB-1, EB-2 and EB-3.
• Draft motions, waivers, applications, requests for evidence, and appeals to USCIS, EOIR and BIA.
• Represent clients in employment and family-base petitions, including: H-1B, asylum, adjustment of status, and citizenship applications.
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Student attorney example responsibilities.

• Generate an internal memorandum exploring VAWA and special immigrant juvenile cases that lead to the establishment of a new clinic program.
• Provide direct representation to low-income clients on a range of matters including family, criminal, probate, and post-conviction review.
• Issue subpoenas for opposing party's financial records, records for businesses own by opposing party and records of government organizations.
• Compose subpoenas and collect discovery.
• Represent clients before administrative and probate judges.
• Handle trial and arbitration preparation and document review.
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