Patrick Taurel
Associate Attorney

EMAIL:                                               ptaurel@andradelegal.com

PHONE:                                              (208) 342-5100

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Removal defense, immigration consequences of criminal convictions, asylum.

Immigration bond/release from detention.

EDUCATION

J.D, Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, New York, June 2010: cum laude

B.A., Philosophy, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, May 2004

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

New York State Bar Association

*authorized to practice before federal immigration agencies in any state.

National Immigration Project of the National Lawyer’s Guild

American Immigration Lawyers Association  

American Bar Association

ACADEMIC COMMENDATIONS & AWARDS

CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Terrorism & Civil Liberties Seminar (awarded for earning the highest grade in the class).

Richard Elliott Blyn Memorial Prize (highest grade in the course in Civil Liberties).

Nathan Dechter Memorial Scholarship (public service through excellence in clinical law), Academic Achievement Scholarship, Prince Scholarship, Dean’s Merit Scholarship.

BACKGROUND

Mr. Taurel joined Andrade Legal as an associate attorney in January of 2011 to work on the firm’s deportation defense, naturalization, family-based immigration, and asylum docket.  Patrick gained considerable exposure to immigration and social justice issues through work with prominent national organizations and direct services to low income communities.   

In law school, Patrick worked at the nexus of criminal and immigration law with the Immigrant Defense Project.  He subsequently participated in impact litigation involving issues related to evidence in removal proceedings and the prolonged detention of immigrants with the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project in New York.

As a law student, Patrick successfully represented a Tibetan woman in her asylum application and later collaborated with Hong Kong’s only direct service organization that represents asylum-seekers before the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.  Previously, Mr. Taurel worked as a student extern with the Legal Aid Society criminal defense division and parole revocation unit.

Patrick is currently co-authoring an article that criticizes a BIA decision denying asylum to women from China subjected to the forced insertion of intra-uterine devices.

LANGUAGES

Portuguese, Italian, French, Spanish

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