Derek A. DeCosmo
The DePersia Building, 511 Market Street, Camden, NJ 08102
About Derek A. DeCosmo
Practice Areas
- Immigration
- Criminal Law
Education
- Rutgers School of Law - Camden, Camden, New Jersey, 2005J.D.
- Albright College, 2001B.A.
- Major: Communications
- Major: History
Classes and Seminars
- Author, Guide to Immigration Consequences for Criminal Defendants in New Jersey, Published by Rutgers School of Law December 2021
- Co-Author, Impact of Marijuana Legalization in Criminal and Immigration Law, The Barrister, March 2021
- Presented CLE course to the Camden County Bar Association on—“Everything a criminal defense attorney needs to know when representing a noncitizen client.”, , 2018 - Present
- Author, New Hope in Deportation Defense During a Time of Otherwise Great Uncertainty, The Barrister 2016
- Presented CLE course to the NJ Chapter of the Federal Bar Association on - “Immigration Executive Orders and Deferred Action.”, 2015 - Present
- Presented CLE course during the Camden County Bar Association’s Black Letter Blast on Criminal Law on – “Immigration Consequences of Criminal Activity.”, 2015 - Present
- Presented CLE for the Camden County Bar on – “Avoiding Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claims, a New Jersey Defense Attorney’s Guide to Representing Non-Citizen Clients.”, 2014 - Present
- Presented CLE for the Mercer County Bar Association on “Immigration Issues in Family Law.”, 2012 - Present
- Co-Author, Understanding the Immigration Impact of Your Clients Case Before You Resolve It, The Barrister, March 2011
- Presented to the Rutgers School of Law on “Impact of SB 1070, Arizona’s Anti-Immigration Law”, 2011 - Present
- Presented to the Rutgers School of Law on “Immigration Law and Politics”, 2010 - Present
- Presented, Immigration Law: What Every Attorney Should Know, New Jersey State Bar Association, 2017-Present
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court District of New Jersey
- U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
Other Affiliations
- American Immigration Lawyers Association (“AILA”) - New Jersey Chapter (Chairman)
- NJ Chapter of AILA (Chairman)
- PA Chapter of AILA
- Camden County Bar Association, Immigration Committee, 2017 - Present (Chair)
Office Info
Other Colleagues
Nearby Lawyers
- Immigration
- Criminal Law
- 1.7 miles away
- 2.5 miles away
- 2.2 miles away
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