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National security legal experts to discuss lessons learned since 9/11 in ABA webinar


The past 20 years of American counterterror and national security efforts have had profound impacts on our nation and the world. A panel of legal experts will discuss which changes in processes, policies, laws and resources worked ­— or didn’t work — in the webinar “Lessons for the Next 20 Years: What We’ve Learned in the Two Decades Since 9/11.”

The online program, sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security, will take place from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 9.

ABA President Reginald M. Turner will deliver opening remarks and Judge James E. Baker, director of the Institute for Security Policy and Law at Syracuse University College of Law, will serve as moderator for the webinar, held in commemoration of the 2001 9/11 attacks and their victims.

Panelists will include:

• Ambassador Anne W. Patterson, Kissinger Senior Fellow at Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs

• Michael G. Vickers, former undersecretary of defense for intelligence

• Sahar Aziz, professor of law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers Law School

The webinar is co-sponsored by the ABA  International Law Section; ABA Civil Rights and Social Justice Section; Institute for Security Policy and Law at Syracuse University; Journal of National Security Law & Policy at Georgetown Law Center on National Security and the Law.

To register for the complimentary webinar, visit www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security.

 

State Bar sections look at ‘I-9s and E-Verify’ online September 30
 

The Labor &?Employment Law Section in collaboration with the Immigration Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan will present “Labor Law: Lunch & Learn – Best Practices for Managing I-9s and E-Verify in a Time of COVID-19” online Thursday, September 30, from noon to 1:30 p.m. via Zoom

Due to COVID-19, temporary I-9 completion policies were implemented. Employers need to understand proper completion, management and maintenance of obligatory I-9 forms, and make sure their I-9 compliance programs are sound.

This two-part presentation regarding the intersection of labor/employment and immigration law issues will be presented by Ahndia Mansoori, senior associate attorney at Kitch and board member of the Immigration Law Section.

Mansoori, with Kitch’s Detroit office, focuses her practice on immigration and customs law. She received her law degree from University of Detroit Mercy School of Law School and earned her B.A. in political science with a minor in organizational leadership from Purdue University. Mansoori has had several internships including the International News Desk at C-SPAN, Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, and served as a law clerk at the Kitch Law Firm.

Mansoori is licensed to practice in Michigan and is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Women Lawyers Association of Michigan, and the Michigan Council of the Society for Human Resource Management.

To register for this free online event, visit https://connect.michbar.org/laborlaw/home.


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