Kansas City-area immigration attorney Mira Mdivani to discuss immigration law at Dorothy Thompson Lecture March 12 at K-State

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007

KANSAS CITY-AREA IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY MIRA MDIVANI TO DISCUSS IMMIGRATION LAW AT DOROTHY THOMPSON LECTURE MARCH 12 AT K-STATE

MANHATTAN -- Immigration attorney Mira Mdivani will present "Brown is the New Black and Green Cards are Pink: Immigration Law for Normal People" as part of Kansas State University's Dorothy L. Thompson Lecture Series on Civil Rights.

Mdivani's lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 12, in Forum Hall at the K-State Student Union.

Mdivani is an immigration attorney with the Mdivani Law Firm in Overland Park. Her areas of expertise include business and family immigration. She frequently writes and presents on immigration law, and has provided expert testimony to members of the Kansas Senate and Kansas House of Representatives. She serves of the board of directors for the Association for Women Lawyers in Greater Kansas City and chairs its Community Support Committee. She is a member of the Kansas and Missouri bar associations and Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association's committees for employment and labor and for international law.

Mdivani earned her law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, where she received the American Jurisprudence Award for the highest academic achievements in philosophy and the law and in gender jurisprudence.