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The New Lawyer Supplement

Nov. 26, 2013

Asylum cases give UCLA student experience, satisfaction

Friyana Dadabhoy sat in an immigration court in August as the sole representation for a client seeking asylum.


By Kylie Reynolds


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - Friyana Dadabhoy, a law student at UCLA, sat in an immigration court in August as the sole representation for a client seeking asylum.


The case was unusual for Dadabhoy, 27, who spends most of her time as an extern with the Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project filling out asylum applications for men at the Adelanto Detention Facility in Los Angeles. She worked on the case - that of a Fi...

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