Education:

• LL.M. (1976), Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois
• LL.B. (1975), University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
• 2006-07 - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland-Graduate Studies in Political Science
• 2005 - University of Michigan-Ann Arbor - Special Student - Department of Political Science
• 1973-75 - Wayne State University - Detroit, Michigan, Graduate Student - Department of Political Science
• 1970-72 - University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - Undergraduate-Political Science Major

Licensure:

State of Illinois, 1977; State of Michigan, 1979; U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois, 1978; U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan, 1980; U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1987

Awards and Professional Recognition:

• Martindale Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Attorneys "av" rated
• DBusiness Magazine 2010 Top Lawyers
• 2006-07 Johns Hopkins University Scholarship
• 1975-76 James Nelson Raymond Fellow, Northwestern University School of Law

Teaching:

• Adjunct Professor, College of Graduate Studies, Central Michigan University
• Courses: Administrative Law and the Regulatory Process; International Law

Scholarly Publications:

• "Civil Liberties and the Canadian Bill of Rights," 4 Policy Studies Journal 167 (1975).
• "The Supreme Court, Civil Liberties," (1976) in Civil Liberties, ed., S. Wasby: Lexington Press.
• "Copyright Law Undergoes Major Facelift," JAMA March, (1979): 1019-20.
• "The Diminishing Prospects for Legal Immigration: Clinton through Bush," 19 St. Thomas L. Rev., 329 (2006).
• "Court Stripping: Limitations on Judicial Review of Immigration Cases," 28 Justice System Journal 104 (2007).
• "The Rise of the Administrative State: A Prescription for Lawlessness," 17 Kansas J. of Law & Public Policy, 362 (2008).
• "Race and the Shaping of U.S. Immigration Policy," 28 UCLA Chicano/Latino L. Rev. 1 (2009).
• "Challenging the Doctrine of Consular Nonreviewability in Immigration Cases," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal (forthcoming, 2010).
• Behind the Greencard: An Insiders Look at America's Immigration Mess, book, (forthcoming).

Bar Association and Professional Publications:  

• "Major Revisions in Immigration Law", Laches, Oakland County Bar Association, July 1991.
• "Overhaul Proposed to Legalize Undocumented Immigrants," International Bar Assn. Newsletter, Corporate Immigration, June 8, 2007
• "Alternatives to H1-B Visas: Exceptional Aliens and National Interest Waivers," International Bar Assn. Newsletter, December 7, 2007.

Featured in the Following Outlets:

• Immigration Law Professor Blog
• Administrative Law Professor Blog
• Legal History Blog
• ILW.COM
• Interpreter Releases
• International Bar Association
• Canadian American Bar Association

Presentations:
"The Diminishing Prospects for Legal Immigration: Clinton through Bush," paper presented at the Law & Society Annual Meeting, July 2006, Baltimore, Maryland.
"The Rise of the Administrative State: A Prescription for Lawlessness," and "Race and the Shaping of U.S. Immigration Policy," papers presented at the Law & Society Annual Meeting, June 2008, Montreal, Canada.

Career:
Mr. Dobkin acts as a consultant to the firm in the areas of medical immigration with emphasis on exceptional and extraordinary aliens.

After graduating from Northwestern Law School (LL.M.), Mr. Dobkin began his legal career in Chicago, Illinois. He was the immigration counsel to the American Medical Association in Chicago, Illinois from 1976 to 1979. In 1979, Mr. Dobkin founded his own law firm in Southfield. Michigan From 1979 to 2004, Mr. Dobkin was Senior Partner of Dobkin & Associates, P.C. based in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

Mr. Dobkin is an internationally renown immigration attorney, having handled over 5000 cases in his career. He is also a prolific author - his writings on immigration law, administrative law, civil liberties, constitutional law and political science have been published in numerous law reviews and journals. He has lectured and given seminars on immigration in the United States, Canada and England. Mr. Dobkin is a past chairperson of the Oakland County, Michigan Bar Association, Immigration Law Section.

Mr. Dobkin holds the highest rating "av" accorded to lawyers by the prestigious Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory having achieved this honor at age 32. He was recently inducted into the Martindale Bar Register of Preeminent Attorneys in the United States.
E-mail: xgreencard@aol.com