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8:30am EDT

Best Practices in Pro Bono Immigration

Friday May 16, 2025 8:30am - 9:45am EDT

The session will provide an overview of best practices in immigration pro bono. Attendees will hear from practitioners in nonprofits and a large firm about their collaboration to provide pro bono services in immigration. The session will explore how to be ethical, creative, and efficient in building pro bono partnerships.

Speakers

Stephanie Baez

Pro Bono Counsel, ABA Commission on Immigration

Stephanie Baez is the Director of Pro Bono for the ABA Commission on Immigration. In her role, Stephanie leads the Commission in its national pro bono work in supoprt of the Commission's mission of ensuring fair treatment and full due process rights for immigratns, asylum-seekers... Read More →

Jenna Gilbert

Senior Director, Refugee Representation, Human Rights First

Jenna Gilbert is Senior Director of Refugee Representation at Human Rights First, where she oversees Human Rights First’s pro bono legal representation program, which provides indigent asylum seekers with high quality legal representation in the New York, Washington, D.C., and Los... Read More →

Nareeneh Sohbatian

Pro Bono Counsel - Immigration, Winston & Strawn LLP

Nareeneh Sohbatian is Winston & Strawn LLP’s Pro Bono Counsel - Immigration. Ms. Sohbatian identifies needs and creates and implements procedures to address these needs in over 200 active immigration cases nationwide and oversees Pro Bono efforts in the California. She provides... Read More →

Friday May 16, 2025 8:30am - 9:45am EDT
Continential 7

Sessions

1:15pm EDT

Birds of a Feather: Finding Commonality to Build Impact

Friday May 16, 2025 1:15pm - 2:30pm EDT

Continential 7

On the surface, it may not seem that a volunteer and their low-income client have a lot in common, but what simmers below the surface can define a successful attorney-client relationship. This session will identify factors that affect how volunteers assist clients and clients receive that assistance.

Speakers

Samantha Howell

Pro Bono Director, Three Rivers Legal Services, Inc.

Samantha Howell is the Pro Bono Director at Three Rivers Legal Services. She has over a decade of experience in creating and managing pro bono programs, with experience at three statewide organizations, and over 20 years of experience with volunteer recruitment and management. Her... Read More →

Aili Monahan

Director, Pro Bono Partnerships Project, Northeast New Jersey Legal Services

Aili C. Monahan is the Director of the Pro Bono Partnerships Project at Northeast New Jersey Legal Services. In her role as Director, she manages a team of five full-time pro bono staff in their mission to provide access to justice to residents of Bergen, Hudson, and Passaic Counties... Read More →

Ana Reynolds-Sprague

Pro Bono Coordinator, Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, Inc.

Ana Reynolds-Sprague is the Pro Bono Coordinator for Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, Inc. (LASO) in their Oklahoma City office, where she works to expand LASO’s Pro Bono Program. While new to both the legal and pro bono world, Ana has been immersed in the Nonprofit world most of... Read More →

Friday May 16, 2025 1:15pm - 2:30pm EDT
Continential 7

Sessions