Sections

Immigration

Upcoming Events

ACBA Criminal, Immigration, Wellness, & Barristers Section Social at Nido’s

Overview of the J-1 Visa Category

New events are added regularly. Visit the ACBA calendar for more upcoming ACBA events. To view past programming on demand, please visit acbanet.prolearn.io/home.

About the Section

The ACBA’s Immigration Section puts on quality MCLE and keeps us up-to-date on current landscape of immigration laws in the US.

To join the section, please contact our Membership Department at (510) 302-2200 or hadassah@acbanet.org.

We are actively seeking Executive Committee members to help lead the Immigration Section. Executive Committees are responsible for planning the section networking events, MCLE programs, and other activities throughout the year. 

To view past programming on demand, please visit https://acbanet.prolearn.io/catalog 

Section Listserv

Did you know you can create and send posts to your section community directly from your email inbox? With our Groupvine platform, you can communicate with your section about new updates in your practice area, questions about your practice, changes in laws, discussion about past MCLE programs, and more! Learn more

Damian Caravez

member

dcaravez@beanlloyd.com

Gutierrez_Bonita_website

Bonita Gutierrez

member

Open Immigration Legal Services
436 14th Street Oakland, CA , 94612
www.openimm.org
bonita@openimm.org

About

Bonita Gutierrez manages a one-woman nonprofit law office in downtown Oakland.  She handles asylum claims, removal defense, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status petitions, T and U visas, as well as family petitions.  She practices in family law courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Immigration Court system.  In her past life, she handled commercial litigation, administrative law, and class action suits in New York City.  She’s a member of the California and New York Bars.

Judah Lakin

Judah Lakin

Member

Lakin & Wille LLP
1939 Harrison Street, Suite 420, Oakland, CA, 94612
(510) 379-9216
www.lakinwille.com
judah@lakinwille.com

About

Judah’s practice focuses on removal defense, appeals, federal court litigation, detention issues, family-based immigration, and the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. Judah is also a lecturer at U.C. Berkeley School of Law, where he supervises law students representing noncitizens before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals through Berkeley Law’s Ninth Circuit Practicum. Prior to starting Lakin & Wille LLP, Judah was an associate at Van Der Hout LLP. Prior to private practice, Judah clerked for the Honorable Richard A. Paez on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and before that, worked at Dolores Street Community Services’ Deportation Defense and Legal Advocacy Program. In addition to his work as an immigration attorney, in 2018, Judah co-founded and now co-directs the Bay Area Immigration Bond Fund.