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Nicholas joined DMCA in January 2012 after practicing immigration and circle of relatives law within the Washington, D.C. metro area for a couple of years. He earned a Bachelor of Arts at Utah State University in which he graduated summa cum laude and turned into honored as the valedictorian of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. He earned his regulation degree from George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia. As a scholar, Nicholas served because the Senior Articles Editor for the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy and co-founded and served as president of the regulation college’s student chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). Nicholas also interned with the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) and the Office of the Chief Immigration Judge (OCIJ) in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Nicholas’s time at DOJ furnished him with treasured insight that he uses to put together triumphing strategies at the trial and appellate degree of immigration complaints. Nicholas is an performed author and drafted the appellate briefs within the case of Prudencio v. Holder, 669 F.3d 472 (4th Cir. 2012) (to be had online at http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinion.pdf/102382.P.pdf), in which the Fourth Circuit overturned the Lawyer General’s procedural framework in Matter of Silva-Trevino for analyzing whether an alien has been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude. He is also the writer of Legal Insights: Arizona Immigration Law Negatively Impacts Border Security, The CIP Report, Vol. nine No. 3 (Sept. 2010), to be had online at http://cip.gmu.edu/archive/CIPHS_TheCIPReport_September2010_BorderSecuri..., in which he argued that most of the provisions contained in Arizona’s anti-immigrant bill (S.B. 1070) would improperly divert the federal government’s restrained resources faraway from its top enforcement priorities and result in a much less-stable America. Nicholas is admitted to practice law by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and his exercise in Texas is confined to immigrat › ›
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Graduation year: 2006
Graduation year: 2000
