PAUL KLAAS
Paul Klass is a Partner in the Trial, Regulatory, and Technology Group and Chair of International Arbitration and Litigation at Dorsey & Whitney, LLP. He has served as lead counsel in numerous intellectual-property, commercial, technology and medical malpractice lawsuits and arbitrations. Mr. Klaas has lectured at Minnesota Institute of Legal Education as well as University of Minnesota Law School, Hamine University School of Law, and St. Thomas Law School. He is also a member of the Harry A. Blackmun Lecture series faculty, which is sponsored by the Mayo Foundation. From 1981-1985, Mr. Klaas was Adjunct Professor of Law and Business Torts at William Mitchell College of Law.
Paul Klaas’ list of honors extends from “Top Lawyer” in Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine to Fellow at American College of Trial Lawyers, Delegate and Session Co-Chair at the London Court of International Arbitration European Council Symposium, and Designated Member of the International Committee, American College of Trial Lawyers.

KATHLEEN MOCCIO
Kathleen Moccio is an Attorney in the Labor practice group at Dorsey & Whitney, LLP where she practices exclusively in the area of immigration and nationality law. Ms. Mocccio is also Vice-Chair of the American Immigration Law Foundation. Since 2002, she has served as Chair of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, Nebraska Service Center and Liaison to the INS Nebraska Service Center Committee of the American Immigrant Lawyers Association, which is responsible for non-immigrant employment-based cases.

Ms. Moccio is a frequent lecturer and writer on both citizenship and immigration issues. For her liaison work with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, American Immigration Lawyers Association, she was awarded the “President’s Commendation” for dedication, tenacity and commitment.

CAROL WOLCHOK
Carol Wolchok is Staff Director of the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration Policy, Practice & Pro Bono. The Commission monitors federal legislation and litigation affecting the rights of immigrants and refugees, develops legal services and pro bono programs for newcomers, and educates members of the bar and judiciary about immigration law and procedures. Before joining the ABA in 1987, Ms. Wolchok taught at the George Washington University National Law Center legal clinics and later directed the Political Asylum Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. She has participated in delegations to Haiti, Guantanamo Bay, Indochina, Central America, Canada, and U.S. border regions. In 1999 she was an observer to a special meeting of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles in Finland.

Ms. Wolchok writes and lectures on a variety of immigration issues and is the principal editor of A Judge’s Benchbook on Immigration Law and Related Matters, published by the ABA. She is the recipient of the 1988 Pro Bono Award of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and a 2001 honoree of the Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN) in New York.

MODERATOR: T. ALEXANDER ALEINIKOFF
T. Alexander Aleinikoff is a Senior Associate at the Migration Policy Institute, working on refugee protection, international migration, citizenship, and domestic immigration policy. He is also Professor of Law, with a focus on constitutional and immigration law, at Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Aleinikoff was previously a Senior Associate with the International Migration Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 1994-1997, Professor Aleinikoff served as the General Counsel and then Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Mr. Aleinikoff has published numerous articles in the areas of immigration, race, statutory interpretation, and constitutional law, and he is also the author of the principal text and casebooks on U.S. immigration.