Our latest featured speaker is Marisa Casablanca from Akerman LLP!

Marisa will be speaking for us at our upcoming Immigration 101 South Florida Conference in Fort Lauderdale on October 18-19! 

Marisa is a repeat speaker for us, having previously been on the faculty panels at our Immigration 101: A Comprehensive Immigration Practice Program and Visa Processing seminar, where attendees gave her glowing evaluations. Welcome back, Marisa!

Maria “Marisa” Casablanca has dedicated herself to the practice of U.S Immigration and Nationality Law for 25 years. Her practice involves representing corporate clients and individuals in obtaining immigration assistance and benefits. Marisa is Board Certified in Immigration and Nationality Law by The Florida Bar, and was a member of The Florida Bar’s Certification Committee for Immigration and Nationality Law.

Marisa counsels her clients on a wide array of immigration related issues including obtaining assistance and benefits such as employment visas (EB-5) as well as business related visas and residency for foreign nationals, representing family members of permanent residents and United States Citizens, and assisting those seeking asylum.

An experienced litigator, Marisa practices in all areas of Immigration law and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Immigration Court, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Southern District Court and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She has filed a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court on an immigration issue that conflicted with different states. She advises employers on compliance procedures and counsels individuals on how to maintain their status in the United States.

Our latest featured speaker is Christine Alden from Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney!

Christine will be speaking for us at our upcoming Immigration 101 South Florida Conference in Fort Lauderdale on October 18-19! Christine has previously spoken for us at our 2016 Immigration 101: A Comprehensive Immigration Practice Program where attendees said she was very knowledgeable and extremely professional. Welcome back, Christine!

Christine J. Alden provides customized immigration solutions for a global clientele. As a naturalized citizen herself, she recognizes the importance of U.S. citizenship and the opportunities and security it brings. She is also able to identify with each and every one of her clients, no matter the situation or walk of life.

Christine serves individual clients, especially unique and complex cases, as well as business and corporate clients across a variety of industries – in the U.S. and abroad. Over the last two decades, Christine has helped countless individuals successfully immigrate to the U.S. including foreign nationals and entrepreneurs investing in the U.S. and creating jobs. She has helped meet the business needs of American companies in securing visas to bring their skilled workers, multinational executives and managers to add to their workforce and contribute to the U.S. economy. Additionally, she has helped individuals who qualify to self-sponsor in the extraordinary ability and national interest waiver categories obtain permanent residence. She has also been honored to help reunite families and loved ones, creating a positive impact on their lives and helping strengthen their communities.

Her entire career has been focused solely on immigration. She is currently the President-elect of the South Florida chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).

Within the AILA South Florida, she is the Chair of Budget for the association, Coordinator of National Day of Action which consists of organizing lobbying efforts to implement common sense immigration reform, Vice Chair of the Customs and Border Protection Liaison Committee and Vice Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion committee.

Christine is also the President of the British American Business Council of Miami and very involved with the local European Union Chamber joint events.

Our latest featured speaker is Virginia Milstead from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP!

Virginia will be speaking for us at our upcoming 13th Annual CA Superior Court Boot Camp in Los Angeles on October 12th! Virginia has previously spoken for us at our 2012 and 2013 Federal Court Boot Camps, and our 2014 and 2017 Superior Court Boot Camps, where attendees raved about her presentations. Welcome back, Virginia!

Virginia F. Milstead has a broad commercial litigation practice, representing clients in both federal and state courts, with a particular emphasis on securities and takeover litigation, director misconduct and related claims. She has represented clients in matters involving federal securities laws, duties of corporate directors, civil RICO, unfair business practices, and various other contract and tort claims.

Ms. Milstead has been a speaker at various conferences and bar groups. In addition to speaking at events hosted by the Antitrust and Unfair Business Practices and Business and Corporations Law sections of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, she has participated in seminars related to practice in federal court, including serving as a panelist at the Third Annual William French Lecture at Pepperdine University School of Law, featuring retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor; and on three occasions she has been a panelist at the Byrne Judicial Clerkship Institute. Ms. Milstead also has organized and conducted new lawyer training related to class actions.

Ms. Milstead is a graduate of Pepperdine University School of Law (J.D., 2004, summa cum laude), and was Literary and Citation Editor of the Pepperdine Law Review.

Our latest featured speaker is Germain Labat from Vedder Price!

Germain will be speaking for us at our upcoming 13th Annual CA Superior Court Boot Camp in Los Angeles on October 12th! Germain has previously spoken for us at our 2017, 2016, and 2014 Superior Court Boot Camps in Los Angeles, where seminar attendees said his presentations were really dynamic, and gave great examples and practice tips that were easy to relate to. We can’t wait to have him speak for us again, welcome back, Germain!

Germain D. Labat is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and head of the Litigation group in the firm’s Los Angeles office.

Mr. Labat is an experienced trial lawyer who advises and represents companies and their executives in complex civil litigation in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration and other ADR forums. His litigation practice focuses on all manner of complex business disputes, including commercial litigation, securities litigation, corporate governance and control disputes, commercial real estate litigation, and class action defense. His wide-ranging list of clients includes both public and privately held companies in the financial services, real estate, health care, energy, retail and technology sectors.

Mr. Labat is a forceful advocate in the courtroom, having tried numerous jury and bench trials of complex and lengthy matters, including one of the longest bench trials in California history that spanned nearly 300 trial days. While Mr. Labat typically serves as defense counsel, he also has experience representing plaintiffs, having successfully obtained multimillion-dollar verdicts for his clients.

Mr. Labat is also experienced in conducting internal investigations, acting as counsel to Special Litigation Committees in response to both external and internal allegations of impropriety, and counseling clients and their boards of directors on pre-litigation strategy and planning.

Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Labat was a partner with a leading international law firm. Before that he spent his early years of practice representing Silicon Valley start-ups and publicly traded tech companies in the Securities Litigation Group at another Am Law 100 firm.

He is fluent in Spanish.

Our latest featured speaker is Diana Iketani Iorlano from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP!

Diana will be speaking for us at our upcoming 13th Annual CA Superior Court Boot Camp in Los Angeles on October 12th! Diana has previously spoken for us at our 12th CA Superior Court Boot Camp in 2017 where attendees raved about her. We can’t wait to have Diana back! 

Diana Iorlano’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, regulatory and compliance issues, and administrative proceedings. She has litigated and negotiated matters for clients in technology, entertainment, media, financial services, real estate, insurance, retail, healthcare and other industries. Diana’s practice includes privacy and data security, entertainment litigation, trademark and copyright, unfair competition, and government and regulatory actions. She is actively involved in all phases of litigation, from pre-litigation counseling through trial and appeal, in state and federal court. She also served as Manatt’s Chief Recruiting Officer (CRO) for two years and managed recruitment of the firm’s professional talent at all levels, including equity and income partners, associates, summer associates, managing directors, advisors, analysts, and consultants.

Diana previously served as a volunteer temporary judge for the Los Angeles Superior Court from 2004 to 2010.

Our latest featured speaker is Damian Capozzola from The Law Offices of Damian D. Capozzola!

Damian will be speaking for us at our upcoming 13th Annual CA Superior Court Boot Camp in Los Angeles on October 12th! Damian is a repeat speaker for us, having previously been on the faculty panels for 12th Annual CA Superior Court Boot Camp, 11th Annual Superior Court Boot Camp, and 14th Annual Federal Court Boot Camp, to name a few! Damian routinely gets rave reviews from seminar attendees, and we are excited to have him back!

Damian D. Capozzola is a sole practitioner in his nineteenth year of litigation practice. Damian has handled significant litigation matters across a broad spectrum of industries and has represented some of the world’s largest defense contractors, food manufacturers and wholesalers, and telecommunications companies.

Damian has successfully first-chaired nine jury trials, three bench trials, and two arbitrations, and has contributed to successful trial results and settlements in a number of other matters while practicing at three leading national law firms and then since 2013 as founder of his own firm. He has extensive experience in taking and defending depositions, and he has written and lectured on litigation strategies — including the effective use of technology in the courtroom — and working with experts. Since 2006 he has been the co-author of the Thomson Reuters/West Trial Practice Series treatise Expert Witnesses in Civil Trials: Effective Preparation and Presentation.

Damian also has experience with a range of employment, personal injury, and environmental issues, from mass tort litigation to multi-party groundwater contamination mediations to advising clients on discrete issues. Finally, through the years, he has devoted a significant amount of pro bono time prosecuting misdemeanor crimes for two local municipalities. Most recently, Damian secured guilty verdicts on both counts in a two-day bench trial in which the defendant was represented by an attorney with an established track record of filing civil rights lawsuits alleging officer misconduct.

In 2011 Damian was appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger (and was subsequently reappointed by Governor Brown) to the California Law Revision Commission, which he chaired in 2014. He is also a Past-President of the Los Angeles Italian-American Lawyers.

Our latest featured speaker is Min Wu from CanAm Investor Services!

Min will be speaking for us at our upcoming EB-5 Investor Based Immigration Conference in Los Angeles on October 4th and 5th! This is Min’s first year speaking with us, and we can’t wait for her presentation!

Min Wu is a Vice President of U.S. sales at CanAm Investor Services, the broker dealer arm of CanAm Enterprises. Mrs. Wu has worked with hundreds of EB-5 investors from all over the globe advising them on the EB5 investment process. She has more than 8 years’ experiences working as financial analyst and institutional sales manager on Wall Street. Most recently, Mrs. Wu was Director of Investor Relation at a New York based boutique advisory firm focusing on investor outreach and strategic communication for publicly traded companies in the pharmaceutical and financial technology industry.

Mrs. Wu is a Charted Financial Analyst and holds the FINRA Series 7, and 63 license. She graduated with a masters degree in financial manager in the U.S. and earned her bachelors degree in accounting & taxation in China.

Our latest featured speaker is Jay Rosen from Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP!

Jay will be speaking for us at our upcoming EB-5 Investor Based Immigration Conference in Fort Lauderdale in 2019! Jay was on the faculty panel for our 2015 EB-5 Investor Based Immigration in Orlando, where our attendees raved about his presentation! Welcome back, Jay!

Jay M. Rosen is a partner in the Miami office of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP. He is a member of the firm’s Corporate Transactions & Counseling and Securities Practice Groups.

Mr. Rosen focuses his practice in general corporate and securities law. He has represented both public and private companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, public and private offerings of securities and SEC disclosure, as well as corporate governance, debt and equity financing and general corporate matters. Mr. Rosen’s practice also includes specializing in private offerings under the EB-5 immigrant investor visa program. He serves as lead attorney on numerous projects from inception to closing, including contract negotiation and preparation.

Mr. Rosen’s practice includes serving in the role as outside general counsel to various corporate clients, coordinating all legal issues related to their day-to-day business operations. In addition, he has represented various clients with respect to mergers and acquisitions transactions, including drafting and negotiating complex stock and asset purchase agreements, operating agreements, letters of intent, due diligence documentation, non-competes, confidentiality, and non-disclosure agreements and related financing documentation.

Our latest featured speaker is Rob Lee from Elite EB-5 Solutions, LLC!

Rob will be speaking for us at our upcoming EB-5 Investor Based Immigration Conference in Los Angeles on October 4th and 5th! This is Rob’s first year speaking with us, and we can’t wait for his presentation!

Mr. Rob Lee has helped hundreds of EB-5 clients since May of 2010 and has utilized that experience to help clients structure a strong process management team to efficiently streamline the application process. Prior to EB-5, Mr. Lee began his career working for three of the major movie studios as he managed forecasting, reporting and analysis teams responsible for big-box retail accounts in the US and Canada.  He then worked as the Director of Financial Planning & Analysis for a mid-sized jewelry company with 16 locations and backed by private equity funds. Mr. Lee is a graduate of UCLA with a BA in Economics and also received his MBA from Pepperdine’s Graziadio School of Business.