Since its founding, IDP has been committed to providing legal training on issues at the intersection of criminal and immigration law.
IDP designs training for a wide range of legal professionals. Since the Supreme Court’s landmark Padilla v. Kentucky decision, IDP has focused on training public defenders, but we also customize trainings for immigration attorneys, assigned counsel, family court practitioners, BIA accredited representatives, judges, prosecutors, and community advocates.
Upcoming Trainings
2025 Seminar
Defending Immigrants Impacted by Criminalization:
Legal Strategies and Evolving Challenges
September 17 – 18, 2025
Past Trainings
A sample of trainings that IDP has given in the past.
- Litigation About the Categorical Approach: Realistic Probability, Means/Elements Divisibility, and the Burden of Proof
- Drug-related Deportability or Inadmissibility Grounds
- Litigating Post-Conviction Relief in Immigration Court
- Cutting Edge Crim-Imm Strategies in Federal and Immigration Court
- “Crim-imm 101” for Criminal Defense Attorneys Around Basic Crimmigration Concepts
- Training on Immigration Detainers
- Gathering Criminal Court Documents and How to Read Them
- Path of a Criminal Case in New York City
- Criminal Appellate and Post-Conviction Strategies for the Defense of Noncitizens
- Immigration Consequences of Domestic Violence Convictions and Orders of Protections
- The Impact of Youthful Offender and Juvenile Adjudications on Immigrants