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78 Fordham L. Rev. 577 (2009-2010)
Regulating Immigration Legal Service Providers: Inadequate Legal Service Providers: Inadequate Representation and Notario Fraud

handle is hein.journals/flr78 and id is 581 raw text is: REGULATING IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICE PROVIDERS: INADEQUATE REPRESENTATION AND NOTARIO FRAUD Careen Shannon* on behalf of The Subcommittee on Addressing Inadequate Representation Immigrants are often easy prey for bogus or incompetent attorneys, notarios, scam artists, and other bad actors who take advantage of immigrants' limited knowledge of U.S. law, lack of English fluency, and lack of cultural knowledge to charge exorbitant fees for wild promises of green cards and citizenship that the bad actors cannot-or in some cases never intended to-deliver. Such exploitation is merely a symptom, however, of the larger problem of inadequate access to competent legal counsel by foreign nationals seeking to navigate our labyrinthine scheme of * This Report was written by Careen Shannon (Of Counsel, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, and Adjunct Professor of Immigration Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law) on behalf of The Subcommittee on Addressing Inadequate Representation of the Study Group on Immigrant Representation. The subcommittee, cochaired by Michael D. Patrick (Partner, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, and former Special Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief of the Immigration Unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York) and Dr. William F. Kuntz, II (Partner, Baker Hostetler, and one of the leading commercial litigators in New York City), also consists of Sherry K. Cohen (First Deputy Chief Counsel, Departmental Disciplinary Committee, Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Judicial Department), Martin R. Gold (Partner, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, and a senior member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee, First Judicial Department), Daysi M. Mejia (Attorney in Charge, Immigrant Affairs Program, New York County District Attorney's Office), and Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. (Principal, Morvillo Abramowitz, and a former Assistant District Attorney with the New York County District Attorney's Office). The larger Study Group was assembled by Judge Robert A. Katzmann (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit) with the support of Judge Denny Chin (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York) and Judge Noel Ann Brennan (U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review, New York), and is administered by Peter G. Eikenberry, a longtime litigator who dedicates much of his time to pro bono and civic responsibility matters. Ms. Shannon was ably assisted in the preparation of this report by Elizabeth T. Reichard (Associate, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, and the 2008-09 Fragomen Fellow at the City Bar Justice Center of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York) and Charlotte W. Smith (Associate, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP), and gives special thanks to Sherry K. Cohen and Daysi M. Mejia for their detailed and valuable input. Please send inquiries regarding the work of the Study Group on Immigrant Representation c/o Robert Juceam, One New York Plaza, New York, NY 10004, robertjuceam@friedfrank.com.

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