2008 AILA Annual Conference on Immigration Law
June 25-28
Vancouver, BC Canada

Educational Program Overview

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Annual Conference Program Committee

AILA's 2008 Annual Conference offers you close to 100 educational sessions in a number of practice specialty tracks to choose from. The preliminary program (with session topics, discussion points and invited faculty) as well as the Day-at-a-Glance are now available for you to preview.

In addition to our Practice Roundtables, Breakfast with the Experts Panels, we will have 5 to 6 tracks each day focusing on the following subject areas: Fundamentals, Business, Family, Due Process/Enforcement, Law Practice Management, Masters Track, and Open Forums. There will also be many networking and social events during the Annual Conference.

myPlanner allows you to search the 2008 Annual Conference Program by keyword, date, time, type, track and speaker name. You can "add" a session or networking event to your own personal planner and then update your schedule as often as you like - adding and deleting sessions or events. There is also a notes section where you can put reminders to yourself about a particular session. You can even print out a copy before you head to Vancouver. Make the most out of your conference experience and plan your own conference within the conference today!

Program innovations inspired by you for 2008:

• More mini-tracks, including an ICE Raid Workshops, Law Practice Management, and Litigation Workshops
• A special panel on Canadian immigration
• New brown-bag lunch panels, including a case management software "show and tell" and a media outreach session
• More interactive sessions, including a Workshop on I-601 waivers, and fun, game-show style sessions on ethics, B-1/B-2 visas, and affidavits of support

We've also kept the program favorites and social events that you asked for most!

• Hot Topics and Interagency Government Panel
• Consistent start and end times across all tracks
• Evening Practice Roundtables on Wednesday and Thursday, and on Friday morning
• Open Forums with key decision makers from a number of government agencies
• Breakfast with the Experts on Saturday
• Wednesday Evening Grand Opening
• Presidents Reception
• AILA Saturday Night Party
• AILA Exhibit Hall

Denise C. Hammond, Annual Conference Chair

Family/Special Sessions
Sharon Dulberg, Family/Special Sessions Chair
Lisa E. Battan
Angela M. Bean
Sarah Z. Brown
Charina P. Garcia
Jacqueline B. Martinez
Steven C. Thal

Enforcement/Due Process/Criminal/Asylum Sessions
Maria T. Baldini-Potermin, Chair
Regina Germain
Eileen M.G. Scofield
Margaret D. Stock
Rachel S. Ullman
Doug S. Weigle

Business Sessions
Jerome G. Grzeca, Chair
Michelle Funk
Romy K. Kapoor
Gayle Oshrin
Heather N. Segal
Suzanne B. Seltzer
William A. Stock

Michelle I. Gergerian, AILA Director, Education, Washington, D.C.
Bernard P. Wolfsdorf, AILA First Vice President, Santa Monica, CA