Members
of our staff belong to a variety of organizations
and associations, which are described below.
The American Immigration
Lawyers Association (AILA) is
the national association of nearly 8,000 attorneys
and law professors who practice and teach the
highly specialized field of immigration law. AILA’s
mission is to promote justice, advocate for fair
and reasonable immigration law and policy, advance
the quality of immigration and nationality law
and practice, and enhance the professional development
of its members. AILA Member attorneys represent
tens of thousands of U.S. families who have applied
for permanent residence for their spouses, children,
and other close relatives to lawfully enter and
reside in the United States. AILA Members also
represent thousands of U.S. businesses and industries
who sponsor foreign workers seeking to enter the
United States on a temporary or permanent basis.
AILA Members also represent foreign students,
professionals, entertainers, athletes, and asylum
seekers, often on a pro bono basis. AILA is an
Affiliated Organization of the American Bar Association
and is represented in the ABA House of Delegates.Member
of AILA: James P. Gagel.
The Inter-American
Bar Association (IBA), Was founded
in l940 by a group of distinguished lawyers and
jurists representing forty-four professional organizations
and seventeen nations of the Western Hemisphere,
in order to provide a permanent forum to promote
the Rule of Law and protect the democratic institutions
in the Americas. The IBA’s mission is to
establish and maintain relations among organizations
of lawyers in the Americas, to advance the science
of jurisprudence; to disseminate knowledge of
the laws of the Americas, to promote the Rule
of Law and the administration of justice, to encourage
the establishment and maintenance of independent
judicial systems in all countries of the Americas,
to preserve and defend human rights and liberties,
and to guarantee to the peoples of the hemisphere
the free exercise of their civil and political
rights under democratic principles.Member
of the IBA: James P. Gagel,
as a Senior Member.
The New York Bar
is one of the oldest organizations for attorneys
the United States. The New York Bar is comprised
principally of practicing lawyers, judges, court
administrators, law teachers, public service attorneys
and many non-practicing lawyers who are business
executives, government officials, etc. with ties
to the country’s most important financial
and business community. Member of the New York
Bar: James P. Gagel, (Admitted upon examination
in 1983.)
The
Florida Bar,which began as a voluntary
organization 1889, is now the third largest mandatory
state bar in the United States, with over 70,000
members. The Florida Bar reflects an honorable
and noble tradition of service for the public's
good. Its headquarters is in the State Capitol
of Tallahassee, Florida, with branch offices in
Orlando, Tampa, Ft. Lauderdale and Miami. The
Bar offers continuing legal education, as well
concentrated information, seminars, newsletters
and publications in specific areas of law to its
members. Membership also provides attorneys with
access to other lawyers who share similar interests
in a specific legal field. Member of the Florida
Bar: Georgia Gillett.
(Admitted upon examination in 1996).
The District of
Columbia Bar is the second largest
unified bar in the United States. The D.C. Bar
was created in response to the legal community's
desire to have a single organization that could
uphold the profession’s ethical standards
and rules of conduct. The Bar's mission is to
provide service to the profession, the courts,
and the community, and to aid the court in carrying
on and improving the administration of justice;
to foster and maintain high ideals of integrity,
learning, competence in public service, high standards
of conduct; to carry on a continuing program of
legal research and education, and to make recommendations
regarding legal practice and procedure, so that
the public responsibility of the legal professional
is more effectively carried out. Member of the
D.C.
Bar: James P. Gagel,
(Admitted upon examination in 1983.)
The New Jersey Bar is the state
organization to which James
P. Gagel was admitted upon examination in
1982, and sworn into by the Honorable Herbert
Susser, the Superior Court Judge whom he served
as a judicial clerk that year. The New Jersey
Bar is comprised principally of practicing lawyers,
judges, court administrators, law teachers, and
public service attorneys, and is active in promoting
the same ideals and principles as those of the
of the New York Bar, the Florida Bar and the District
of Colombia Bar. (Admitted upon examination in
1982).
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