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HIP attorneys volunteer at Citizenship Day

October 30, 2013 – HIP immigration attorneys Mary Beth Leeper and Meghan Kelly-Stallings volunteered this Saturday at Citizenship Day, a twice-yearly event organized by Washington New Americans, a collaboration between One America and the Washington membership of American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).

Mary Beth volunteered at the Des Moines site and helped prepare citizenship applications for those who attended. Meghan was the AILA site coordinator for the Pasco cite and focused her efforts on recruiting and supervising volunteers. The next Citizenship Day will be held in April 2014, with four sites located throughout the state. For more information about this program and upcoming events, check out http://weareoneamerica.org/become-citizen.

HIP celebrates grand opening of Centro Rendu

October 14, 2013 – Representatives from HIP’s immigration and family law practice groups attended a celebration to mark the grand opening of Centro Rendu, a community outreach program of St. Vincent de Paul of Seattle/King County, located in Kent, Washington. Centro Rendu offers a wide range of social services to the local Hispanic community, including literacy, ESL, computer, and citizenship classes as well as youth service and legal orientation programs. HIP immigration attorneys volunteer twice monthly at Centro Rendu to provide free immigration legal consultations and orientations to the Hispanic community. For more information about Centro Rendu, please see http://www.svdpseattle.org/centro-rendu/.

Mary Beth on Univision TV news program!

October 11, 2013 – Mary Beth was on Univision TV news program last night at 6pm. She went with a new Kent organization called Centro Rendu which is part of St. Vincent de Paul as part of their new Hispanic outreach program. Our department attorneys are providing free consultations at the center twice per month to assist their efforts with the local Hispanic community. The segment is about the opening of Centro Rendu and they invited Mary Beth to accompany them. Congratulations Mary Beth!

Attorney Mary Beth Leeper to speak at Pacific Lutheran University on immigration policy

September 16, 2013 – Mary Beth Leeper has been invited to speak as part of a panel on immigration policy at Pacific Lutheran University for an event celebrating Constitution Day. In addition to Mary Beth, the event features renowned immigration advocate Leno Rose-Avila, as well as a PLU student and faculty member, all of whom will be commenting on the impact of immigration policy in the Pacific Northwest.

The event will take place on Tuesday, September 17 from 4:00 to 5:30 PM at PLU. It is free and open to the public.

Mary Beth Leeper

mleeper@hiplawfirm.com

253.520.5000

HIP legal assistant Katherine Brennan leaves to begin law school

Hanis Irvine Prothero would like to wish immigration legal assistant Katherine Brennan a fond farewell and the best of luck as she leaves us to begin her first year of law school at the University of Washington this Fall. Katherine joined the firm fresh out of college and quickly became an integral part of the busy Immigration Department team. She will be sorely missed. Thank you Katherine for all your hard work and dedication to HIP and to our clients! We look forward to hearing about all of your success.