Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. and

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

are pleased to announce the next lecture in our

Human Rights and National Security Speaker Series

Collateral Damage? 

Impacts of the War on Terrorism on the Rights of Non-citizens

presented by

Laura Danielson and Sam Myers

Thursday, July 17, 2003, 12:00-1:00 P.M.

at

Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

4000 Pillsbury Center

200 South Sixth Street

Minneapolis, MN

This presentation will outline immigration law changes since September 11th.  Specifically, it will address various potential and present impacts of the war on terrorism and Homeland Security on the constitutional rights and other private rights of individuals and organizations who are not involved in terrorism.  Complimentary lunch will be provided to those who have pre-registered. 

Laura Danielson established her own practice in 1989 and is now the Department Chair of the Immigration Group at Fredrikson & Byron, practicing exclusively in immigration law.  She has taught immigration law at the University of Minnesota Law School for the past 6 years and is a frequent speaker at national immigration law conferences.  Laura served on the Board of Directors for Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights and has represented numerous Minnesota Advocates' clients in asylum matters.  The Immigration Group represents a broad range of clients, including multinational corporations, small employers, foreign artists, entertainers, athletes, engineers, scientists, medical personnel, and other professionals.   With affiliate offices in various international locations, Laura and her group handle complex consular visa processing cases as well as matters for expatriate U.S. citizens living overseas.  They also assist individuals in cases involving family immigration, political asylum, and naturalization. 

Sam Myers is a 1972 graduate of the University of Virginia Law School.  He is a cofounder of the Minneapolis-based law firm, Myers Thompson P.A., a firm with a national immigration law practice.  Mr. Myers is a former two-term president and five-term board member of the International Institute of Minnesota.  He is a former six-year Board Member of the Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, where he served as a mentor to direct service-attorneys representing, pro bono, asylum clients.  From 1985 and 1991 he served as an adjunct professor of law with the William Mitchell College of Law where he taught a pro bono immigration law clinic, which he co-founded.  He has been a guest lecturer, for many years, at Professor David Weissbrodt’s and adjunct professor Laura Danielson’s University of Minnesota School of Law School class on Immigration Law.  He was a cofounder of the Minnesota-Dakotas Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).  He is a permanent Board Director of AILA and, from 1991-1992, served as AILA's President.  In 1992, he founded, and serves as Chair of, AILA's Board of Publications.  Between 1992 and 1999, he served on the Board of Trustees of the Immigration Law Foundation and served as Chair of that Board between 1994 and 1998.

This human rights speaker series will be held on the third Thursday of each month throughout 2003.  Lectures are free and open to the public (registration required).  For more information, please contact Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.  You may find directions to Fredrikson & Byron at: www.fredlaw.com/contact.htm

Please R.S.V.P. to Rose Park at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights by noon on Tuesday, July 15th