The U.S. Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) is seeking qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join its immigration judge corps. Interested parties are invited to attend a virtual information session where senior EOIR staff will discuss the immigration judge career path, duties, qualifications, and benefits of being an immigration judge. There will also be information about applying for immigration judge positions when they become available, as well as a Q&A session. For more information or to register, please click here. 

The next immigration judge position is scheduled to open in early April. Interested parties can receive a notification when the announcement is posted on USAJOBS, by signing up for EOIR's Adjudicators Announcement listserv.

For more information on the immigration judge career path, benefits, qualifications, etc., please click here.

Minnesota Lawyer’s annual awards luncheon celebrates the future leaders of the legal profession alongside those that actually keep the wheels of justice moving.

AWARDS
Up & Coming Attorneys are those who have in their first 10 years of practice distinguished themselves by their:
• Professional accomplishment
• Leadership
• Service to community/profession
• Achievement as in-house counsel

Unsung Legal Heroes are important to their colleagues, their clients and their communities.

They make the lawyers look good in court and the offices look good all the time. And, even more remarkably, they not only can keep their cyber worlds safe and secure, but they also can speak technology to lawyers.

Click here for additional information.

Minnesota Lawyer is proud to celebrate our In-House partners at the annual In-House Counsel Awards. Minnesota Lawyer will recognize Minnesota’s in-house counsel at all levels who among other things, navigate complicated contract negotiations, defend their companies in high stakes litigation and defend some of an organization’s most important assets.

Minnesota Lawyer will recognize Minnesota’s in-house counsel at all levels who among other things, navigate complicated contract negotiations, defend their companies in high stakes litigation and defend some of an organization’s most important assets.

Information on nominations and the event are available on their website.

Join the Very Asian Foundation (VAF) for a mixer at Asian-owned Arbeiter Brewing in Minneapolis. VAF is partnering with We Need Diverse Books to deliver more than 70 books to two Twin Cities schools through the May Book Project, which aims to help schools and libraries build and maintain robust Asian American youth literature collections for all readers, and provides funding to donate books to at-need libraries. Come to learn more about the project, the foundation, and meet other incredible professionals and creators in the Twin Cities. For more information, please click here.

VAF is co-founded by former Twin Cities journalist Gia Vang and St. Louis-based journalist Michelle Li in response to a racist voicemail sent to Li on New Year’s Day in 2022 in a movement to shine a light on Asian experiences through advocacy and celebration. To lean more, please click here.

The Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association's 18th Annual Gala will take place on March 23 in person at the Hilton Minneapolis. The keynote speaker will be Sylvia Acevedo, a trailblazer who started as a rocket scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratories, and also worked as a tech executive at Apple, Dell, and IBM, as White House Commissioner, and as former CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA. For more information or to register, please click here.

LCL's Stepping Up Breakfast encourages the legal community to Step Up and meaningfully address well-being within the legal profession. This year's theme is "Stepping Forward Together." The keynote speaker will be Myrna MacCallum, host of The Trauma Informed Lawyer podcast, and will discuss the importance of understanding how trauma can affect us individually and as a profession, and how as a community we can step forward together. For more information or to register, please click here.

Join the Minnesota Disability Bar Association and the University of Minnesota Law School Well-Being Initiative for an informal networking mixer. Refreshments will be provided. For more information or to register, please click here.

Twin Cities Diversity in Practice is excited to bring its recent report, "Eliminating the Barriers Employers Face in Retaining Attorneys of Color" to life with the talents of Blackout Improv. The report speaks to the experiences of attorneys of color in the Twin Cities based on a series of anonymous interviews conducted last year. This event is eligible for CLE credit. For more information or to register, please click here. Please note that this event is open to only those at TCDIP member organizations. 

The Minnesota State Bar Association D&I Council, Minnesota Coalition of Bar Associations of Color, and the Minnesota Chapter of the Federal Bar Association have put together a conference focused on criminal justice and eliminating racial disparities, featuring keynote speaker former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. There will also be panel presentations by national leaders on the following topics: (1) analyzing federal sentencing disparities, (2) incorporating lessons learned from state reform efforts, (3) leveraging community-based initiatives, and (4) exploring innovative programs from federal districts across the country. For more information or to register, please click here.

Building on the success of the original exhibit in 2018, former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice and NFL Hall of Famer Alan Page and his daughter Georgi, the director of the Diane and Alan Page Collection, are again presenting their exhibit of Americana from slavery to today, with renewed calls of action.

Selections from the family's extraordinary collection of African American art and artifacts will be on display at the Cargill Gallery, accompanied by TESTIFY Tuesday workshops and mainstage programming designed to help bridge divides, deepen dialogue, and encourage action on justice. For more information, please click here.