Advocating for immigrants: Winning with full client engagement & teamwork: Crimmigration lawyer and former immigration judge Paul Grussendorf

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Fairfax criminal lawyer Jonathan Katz's first client visit to a jail was with his law professor and immigration legal clinic director Paul Grussendorf. Jon Katz's first two trials were also with Paul, one a deportation hearing for that jailed client after he had gotten convicted for importation of two kilos of cocaine into the United States, and the other for an Ethiopian client who had found safe haven in Zimbabwe and then flew to the United States, when U.S. immigration policy disfavored forum shopping for safe havens and political asylum after already finding the same outside the U.S., even when escaping the then-governing brutal Marxist Ethiopian government (when the anti-communist-focused Reagan was president). In the silver lining department, Jon obtained political asylum for another Ethiopian client, who claimed religious persecution. Then Jon graduated from law school.
Paul has blazed quite a professional and personal trail, in documentary filmmaking before law school, graduating law school in his early thirties, becoming the immigration law clinic director soon thereafter at Jon's law school, becoming an immigration judge, becoming an asylum officer, and working in other areas of asylum and refugee matters. Like Jon Katz, Paul believes in fully getting to know our clients to effectively represent them.
In this podcast episode, Paul includes crimmigration issues, and the importance for criminal defense lawyers to have sufficient relevant immigration law knowledge or else to obtain advice from competent immigration lawyers. Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356 (2010).
Read Paul's My Trials: Inside America's Deportation Factories, available in paperback and Kindle. Under the pen name Jonathan Worlde, he authored the fictitious Deep in the Cut.

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