Seminar ID

PON-2014-04-30

Date and time

Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 18:00 EST see it in calendar

Attendance

Languages

• in English

CPD hours

Venue

Pace Law Firm300 The East Mall
Toronto
M9B 6B7

Capacity: 18

Description

IMEDA Mentorship series

The entire series is dedicated to practice management and ethics - these are two factors that can make or break an immigration practitioners (mostly sole practitioner). While the idea behind these series is to offer these tools to immigration consultants, we are positive that many new lawyers or lawyers who never practiced immigration law will find them useful.

Technology in immigration practice

Technology and its best use
• Computer vs. laptop
• Phone – landline vs. mobile
• Fax – machine vs. internet fax
• Scanner

Software and customization

• MS Office - tips to work faster and easier
• Adobe Acrobat - signature, fixing pdf documents, combining, extracting, forms, etc.
• Email software
• Browsers
• Add-ons (extensions)
• Officio (Presentation by the developer)

Exercise

Loss of permanent resident status

a. Presented scenario
b. Assessment – interview, questionnaire
c. Assessing eligibility
d. Researching possibilities, applicable categories for the client
e. Assessing admissibility
f. Ethical considerations – truth, misrepresentation, omitted information, potential inadmissibility, honesty and candour, decision to accept or refuse to represent
g. Advising client – managing client’s expectations, guaranteeing results, setting a fee for representation