AMY SCHROEDER IRELAND, ESQ.

Prior to founding Schroeder Ireland, LLC, Amy Schroeder Ireland focused primarily on employment-based immigration as an attorney with Leonard, Street and Deinard, one of Minnesota’s oldest and largest law firms.  She also worked as an attorney for the Refugee and Immigrant Program at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, and as both a law clerk and paralegal at two boutique immigration law firms in Minneapolis.  Amy is a frequent lecturer on immigration-related topics.

PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES

• American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
      Member, AILA National, EOIR Reform Committee, 2006-2007
      Chair, Young Lawyers Division, AILA Minnesota/Dakotas Chapter, 2004

• Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
      Member, Refugee and Immigrant Program Steering Committee, 2003 – present
      Volunteer Consulting Attorney, Refugee and Immigrant Program, 2003 – present
      Volunteer, Oromo Project, 2006, 2007

• Member, Minnesota State Bar Association

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Immigrants and Refugees Navigating the Legal System, held by the Hennepin County Bar Association (December 13, 2007).

Christopher Wendt and Amy Schroeder Ireland , Is You Is, or Is You Ain’t, An Applicant?, 11 Benders Immigration Bulletin 1280 (November 15, 2006).

The ICE-Man Cometh: Immigration-Related Criminal Prosecution of Employers, held by the South Dakota State Bar Association (April 13, 2007).

Pending Immigration Legislation: What Employers Need to Know, held by the Hennepin County Bar Association (June 7, 2006).

EDUCATION

J.D., cum laude, University of Minnesota Law School
B.A., cum laude, German and Political Science, Macalester College
Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany

ADMISSIONS

• State of Minnesota
• Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals