MAURICE HEW, JR. Clinic Director and Associate Professor of Law Thurgood Marshall School of Law 3100 Cleburne Street Houston, TX 77004 713.313.7275(Tel) 713313-1191(Fax) MHewJr@gmail.com PROFESSIONAL LEGAL EXPERIENCE Associate Professor and Immigration Clinic Director Thurgood Marshall School of Law June 2005-present Houston, Texas Courses Taught: Administrative Trial Practice; Family Immigration Law; Nationality Law; Immigration Clinic; Immigration Writing Seminars; Professional Responsibility; and Trial Simulation. Teach doctrinal immigration law courses, Professional Responsibility, and trial simulation. Responsible for the daily managerial operations of a law firm comprised of student attorneys in their representation of at-risk and low income immigrant clients. Present research and produce written quality scholarship for publication. Frequent continuing legal education lecturer on immigration and nationality law. Senior Associate Attorney Feb 1998-June 2005 Harry Gee, Jr. and Associates Houston, Texas Representation of Fortune 500 corporations, their employees, and private individuals before the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Labor, and State. Drafted, filed, and litigated complaints, writs, petitions, and applications before the federal judiciary and the Executive Office for Immigration Review. Supervision of legal professionals and support staff. NIV and IV work. Assistant District Attorney Jefferson Parish District Attorney s Office Feb 1993-Feb1998 Gretna, Louisiana Managed felony and misdemeanor trial dockets on behalf of city, parish, and state governments. Bond hearings, motion practice, plea negotiations, first and second chair prosecuting attorney for jury and judge trials. Supervision of district attorney investigators and support staff. PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITIONS 2010 Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) National Annual Pro Bono award recipient appellate immigration litigation. http://cliniclegal.org/sites/default/files/july%202010%20newsletter_3.pdf 1
ADMISSIONS, LICENSURES, and CERTIFICATIONS 2003 Board Certified, Immigration and Nationality Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization, www.tbls.org; recertified until December 31, 2013; Supreme Court of the United States; 2002 State Bar of Texas, Bar # 24033817, www.texasbar.com; 2000 United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; 1999 US District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Bar #22866; 1992 State Bar of Louisiana, Bar # 21293, www.lsba.org; 1992 US District Court Eastern District of Louisiana; 1992 Louisiana Notary Public. License Number 35354 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Immigration and Nationality Law Examination Commission American and Houston Bar Associations PUBLISHED CASES AND SCHOLARLY ARTICLES Cr-immigration: Constitutionalization of Plea Bargaining After Frye and Lafler, 2012 Emerging Issues 6298 Lexis Nexis (April 16, 2012). The Supreme Court's Resuscitation of the Fleuti Doctrine in Vartelas, and Its Possible Applications, 2012 Emerging Issues 6292 Lexis Nexis (April 13, 2012). Under the Circumstances Padilla v Kentucky, Erroneously Excuses Fundamental Fairness and Leaves Professional Responsibility Lost. 32 B.C. J.L. & Soc. Just. 31, (2012). The Moment of Perception Triggers the Plea for the INA 212(c) Waiver or the St. Cyr Analysis, Not the Plea of Guilty or the Date of the Judgment of Conviction. 38 U. Mem. L. Rev. 799 (2008). The Fence and the Wall (Mart) Maginot Line Mentality, 39 U. Conn. L. Rev. 1385 (2007). Prosecutorial Discretion: An Opportunistic Defense to Employer Sanctions Following Katrina, 31 T. Marshall L. Rev. 463 (2006). Vasquez-Martinez v. Holder, 564 F.3d 712 (5th Cir. 2009). Cano-Miranda v. Ashcroft, 262 F.3d 477(5th Cir. 2001). CALI (Computer Assisted Legal Instructor) Immigration Author. EDUCATION Loyola University School of Law College of Arts and Sciences New Orleans, Louisiana Juris Doctor Bachelor s Degree in Arts 2
SCHOLARLY IMMIGRATION PRESENTATIONS Collateral Consequences of Conviction, Matagorda/Wharton County Indigent Defense Clinic, Matagorda, Texas October 2012. Gouging the Plenary Power Doctrine, TMSLAW International and Immigration Institute October 2012. 9 th Annual Federal Bar Association conference on Immigration and Nationality Law, Memphis, TN May 2012. Collateral Consequences of Conviction, Matagorda/Wharton County Indigent Defense Clinic, Matagorda, Texas September 2011. If you don t know your client s alienage, are you Padilla effective counsel? Federal Public Defender s Office, USDC E.D.LA, New Orleans, LA October 2011. The Constructive Denial of Counsel in Criminal Immigration Proceedings: Pleading Fundamental Fairness as an Alternative to Strickland s prejudice prong, Second Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Chicago, IL October 2011. Padilla v KY, Professional Responsibility Still Lost, Southeast Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Hilton Head, South Carolina July 2011. Young Immigration Scholars Conference, Washington, D.C. May 2011. 8 th Annual Federal Bar Association conference on Immigration and Nationality Law, Memphis, TN May 2011. Naturalization, AILA Texas Chapter s Conference, Oklahoma City, OK April 2011. Birthright Citizenship, South Texas Law School Houston, TX March 2011. Padilla v Ky, Is Professional Responsibility Still Lost, Thurgood Marshall School of Law Quodlibet IX Houston, TX October 2010. Padilla v KY, A Shallow Victory From A Grunt s Perspective, Thurgood Marshall School of Law Houston, TX October 2010. Immigration Removal following Padilla v KY, Third National People of Color Conference, Seton Hall University, Newark, New Jersey, September 2010. 3
Adjusting Status for those who have not been inspected and admitted, T, U, and VAWA, University of Texas Conference on Immigration Law, San Antonio, Texas October 2009. FGM a Basis for Asylum, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Quodlibet VIII, Houston, Texas January 2009. The Board of Immigration Appeals Practice Manual, University of Texas Conference on Immigration Law, San Antonio, Texas October 2008. The Dream Act, Southeast/Southwest People of Color Conference Durham, North Carolina, April 2008. Law Institute Houston, Texas April 2008. Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Quodlibet VII, Houston, Texas March 2008. University of Memphis School of Law, Memphis, Tennessee February 2008. AILA s Houston Chapter, Houston, Texas November 2007. LatCrit XII, Miami, Florida October 2007. Law Institute Houston, Texas April 2007. University of Connecticut Law School, Hartford, Connecticut October 2006. Law Institute Houston, Texas October 2006. Jefferson Parish Bar Association, Lake Charles, Louisiana April 2006. Law Institute Houston, Texas April 2006. Immigration Reform KTSU radio Houston, Texas April 2006. Immigration Reform Univision radio Houston, Texas March 2006. Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Quodlibet V, Houston, Texas March 2006. 4
Congressional Tri-Caucus Town Hall Meeting, Houston, Texas February 2006. Houston Bar Association, Houston, Texas; January 2006. Thurgood Marshall School of Law, The Earl Carl Institute for Legal and Social Policy, and the Institute for International and Immigration Law, Houston, Texas November 2005. University of Texas Conference of Immigration Law, San Antonio, Texas September 2005. Global Films Conference, State Bar of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana March 2005. Institute for International and Immigration Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas March 2005. State Bar of Texas, Houston, Texas February 2005. American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Texas Chapter s Fall Conference, Houston, Texas November 2004. University of Texas Conference on Immigration Law, San Antonio, Texas October 2004. AILA s Houston Chapter, Houston, Texas January 2004. State Bar of Texas, Houston, Texas May 2003. Institute for International and Immigration Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas March 2004. INS may split under the roof of DHS, KPFT News Radio, September 2002. Jefferson Parish Bar Association, Biloxi, Mississippi May 2001. 5