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Legal Guide to Doing Business in South America, Second Edition
Commission on Hispanic Legal Rights & Responsibilities
The Hispanic Commission focuses on developing and supporting initiatives and research to educate lawyers on how best to serve, promote civic responsibility within, and address the key legal challenges facing Latino community in the United States.
Chair's Message
August 8, 2019
The weekend of August 3 & 4th, 2019 had one of the deadliest attacks on Americans in U.S. history with 22 being killed and 26 wounded in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. In Dayton, Ohio, 9 were killed and 27 were injured in the city’s entertainment district. The El Paso mass killings represented the worst attack on the Latino community in the history of our country. The common denominator in these attacks was that fact that assault weapons were used to inflict the deaths and injuries. In El Paso, racism was the motivating factor These acts strike at the heart of the ABA Commission on Hispanic Legal Rights and Responsibilities as the killings in El Paso specifically targeted Latinos, many of which were American citizens. The stories from the families of the survivors are heartbreaking and the fact many were doing back to school shopping for their children furthers the tragedy.
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Leadership and Staff 2019-2020
Chair
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Richard Pena
Law Offices of Richard Pena, P.C.
Austin, TX
Commissioners
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Jason Jose Goitia
Tampa, FL
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Matthew Kline
Seattle, WA
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Jessica A Massey
Rogers, AR
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Veronica Marson
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Edith G Osman
Miami, FL
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Federico Rodriguez
Chicago, IL
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Thomas Saenz
Los Angeles, CA
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Caroline Shoenberger
Chicago, IL
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Henry Talavera
Dallas, TX
Board of Governors Liaison
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Michelle Wong Krause
Dallas, TX
Director
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Skip Harsch
American Bar Association
Chicago, IL
ABA News
Statement of ABA Pres Bob Carlson Re: Improving the U.S. Immigration System
As tensions escalate on the Mexican border, the American Bar Association urges Congress and the White House to craft a comprehensive, peaceful resolution to our nation’s immigration challenges and to devote more resources to alleviate the backlog of asylum claims on the border and in United States’ immigration courts.
Read - Full Statement here
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Your support of the Hispanic Commission’s work is greatly appreciated and will help expand on our accomplishments and activities to date. The Commission is working on a variety of programs, including unauthorized practice of law (Notario Fraud), language access in the courts, voting rights, and much more.
Practitioner Resources
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Reinventing the Practice of Law
Publications | E-Book
The ABA Spanish Legal Phrasebook (ebook)
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Narrowing the Gap: Legal English for the New International Legal Practitioner
Publications | E-Book
Narrowing the Gap (Spanish Edition) E-Book
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ABA Commission on Hispanic Legal Rights & Responsibilities: 321 N. Clark St., Suite 1700 Chicago, Illinois 60654 | Tel: (312) 988‐5137 | Email: skip.harsch@americanbar.org for inquiries