Despite the oft-repeated phrase, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,” I am bravely willing to throw caution to the wind and re-cap this year’s American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) annual conference that ran from June 23rd through the 25th in Las Vegas, Nevada. Both Protima and I attended three days of meetings held at the Cosmopolitan Hotel on the Vegas strip where thousands of lawyers swarmed a hotel typically filled with gamblers and partygoers. We did our best to fit in.
Read moreFrom One Canyon to the Next
After I celebrated summer solstice this week in New York City's canyons, I departed to Las Vegas for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) summer conference. In between informational seminars and chatting with US Citizenship & Immigration Citizenship (USCIS) officers about how they're adjudicating cases these days, I managed to sneak out to the Grand Canyon. Sadly I didn't get a good sunset photo as I had to head back to the conference. But on the plus side so far I've managed not to gamble away the firm!