Generally speaking, civil rights are a class of rights that protect individuals from unlawful government intrusion. Examples of civil rights are things like voting, the right to a fair trial, and the right to due process of law. Some civil rights are created by statute, and others are so sacrosanct…

Rena and I were strangers. She was not my client and I knew next to nothing about her. Nonetheless, I met with her on a Friday afternoon to prepare her for her interview with USCIS[i] which was to take place in three days’ time. …

Law school can be an odious experience, but it is formative in that it teaches future lawyers how to think through the myriad legal problems they may one day encounter. In many ways, the goal of law school is to give a general and well-rounded legal education to students, but…

For lawyers, literacy is a tool of the trade. But there’s levels to literacy, and a talented lawyer in any challenging field of law needs to be functionally literate in a variety of fields including, inter alia, grammatology, research methods, and legal history. Building literacy in each of these expanding…

Have you ever been ordered removed from the United States? Ever receive a deport order? If you can answer yes to either of these questions, regardless of whether you reentered or failed to leave in the first place, it is important you keep reading. …

Over the course of my life, I’ve yet to have a year like 2019, wherein I married my spouse and became a licensed attorney. My year was great, but not without reservation. During my short time as an attorney, I have already become disillusioned with the federal judiciary and with…