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begun to inquire with Santa Ana -based immigrant rights organizations that may be interested in hosting our satellite office during our first year. Substantively, the services provided will be identical to the quality and extent of representation services that ImmDef currently provides. We intend to provide full- scale removal defense to clients served underthis grant and will represent them through final adjudication of their immigration case, which includes all EOIR hearings (detained and released), bond, USCIS applications and a limited number of BIA appeals. To expand our capacity for this project, ImmDef will either internally promote or hire an experienced removal defense attorney to be our managing attorney working under the supervision of our experienced leadership team. This managing attorney will be responsible for supervising the staff attorney who will either internally transfer or who will be hired from a pool of new applicants. To complete our Orange County team, we will transfer 25% of the time of our senior paralegal, Nadia Montenegro, onto this contract. Nadia is one of our most experienced staff members and will add greatly to the efficiency of starting this new initiative. Nadia will focus on data collection and providing legal support to our managing and staff attorney. Supervision Model: ImmDef will follow its supervision model that is used in our other representation programs. Our assigned staff attorney and senior paralegal will be closely supervised by the managing attorney, where they will have weekly one-on-one meetings and in- person check -ins to address any issues with their workloads. These meetings will contain periodic trainings and peer-to-peer presentations on current law trends and issues, including discussion of relevant case law updates, In addition, directing and managing attorneys will be available to discuss case strategy and substantive law questions. The meetings will also be opportunities for case review in a group setting with other attorneys engaged in detained removal defense, which maximizes resources and saves time. Our managing attorney will in turn be directly supervised by our directing attorney, Meeth Soni, who oversees all of ImmDef's adult removal defense programs. Meeth is also very familiar with Orange County where she worked for seven years as a staff attorney at the Public Law Center (PLC). At PLC, Meeth established and oversaw a detained deportation defense practice that focused primarily on torture survivors detained in Orange County. Meeth was also responsible for running the informal LOP at Musick which she transferred to Public Counsel upon her departure from PLC. Anticipated outcomes and Impact of Services: ImmDef expects our high-quality representation to have a profound effect on the clients we serve. In our other representation programs, ImmDef attorneys routinely utilize new, creative options to defend our clients from deportation and we have high rates of success. Even in cases where we are unable to secure immigration relief for 25B-22