Crimmigration 101: What Criminal Defense and Immigration Attorneys Should Know About Each Other's Practices

Michael G. Freedman, Principal and Founder of the Freedman Firm, is an experienced trial attorney and former federal prosecutor who represents individuals and companies nationwide against all types of criminal charges and in high-stakes civil litigation and appeals. His clients, who often include executives, doctors, lawyers, celebrities, politicians and government officials, entrepreneurs, and cannabis companies, benefit from his courtroom skills, strategic guidance, and ability to discreetly navigate and successfully resolve the most challenging matters. Since founding the Firm in 2021, Freedman has avoided federal charges for dozens of clients, won the dismissal of numerous criminal charges even after filed, and has defeated criminal charges at trial, including winning an acquittal in the Southern District of New York and an acquittal of an attorney charged with criminal contempt.

Atyria S. Clark is an attorney licensed in the States of California and Florida. Ms. Clark is the owner of THE COMMUNITY LAW FIRM based in Van Nuys, California. Throughout Ms. Clark’s career she has assisted many people defending deportation/removal from the United States through asylum and withholding claims for clients who have suffered persecution in their home countries, through cancellation of removal for many clients who entered the United States without inspection but were able to establish that their removal would result in extreme and unusual hardship to certain qualifying relatives, and through adjustment of status for various clients who were eligible to obtain legal status in the United States through a spouse or an employer while in removal proceedings. Ms. Clark has also consulted numerous clients about how to remedy certain criminal convictions that would have led to the automatic removal of these clients from the United States.