PROFILE
Heather is a partner at the firm. She is widely recognized for her expertise in immigration law and she speaks regularly at conferences and seminars throughout the world.
Heather Segal practices exclusively in the area of Canadian immigration law and American Consular and Border immigration law. She is currently a Director on the AILA Board of Governors and has spoken at numerous AILA conferences. She is a member of the AILA Customs and Border Protection Liaison Committee. Ms. Segal is also Chair of the American Chamber of Commerce Cross Border Committee. She was voted by her peers as one of the world’s leading practitioners in corporation immigration law in Who’s Who Legal Corporate Immigration. She was the Chapter Chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Canada Chapter (2002-2004) and a liaison for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Buffalo District Office for AILA Canada (2002 – 2004). She has held the position of Vice Chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Canada Chapter (2000-2002) and Treasurer of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Canada Chapter (1998-2000). As well, Ms Segal was a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association National Office Border Issues Committee (1999-2001) and served on the national AILA Border Watch Task Force (2001 - 2002).
ADMISSIONS & AFFILIATIONS
- Called to the Ontario Bar (1997)
- Called to State Bar of California (1996)
- Law Society of Upper Canada
- Ontario Bar Association, Immigration Section
- Canadian Bar Association, Immigration Section
- International Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
EDUCATION
International Research Symposium, Hague Academy of International Law (1996)
LL.M., University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law (1996)
LL.B., Queen’s University (1994)
B.A., University of Toronto (1991)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Speaker, Annual AILA Conference, Las Vegas, NV "TN Processing," June 2009
- Discussion Leader, Annual AILA Conference, Vancouver, Canada "Tricky TN's,” June 2008
- Speaker, AILA New York conference, New York, NY, Waivers of Inadmissibility, December 2007
- Speaker, American Immigration Lawyers Association Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida “Consular Processing”, June 2007
- Speaker, American Immigration Lawyers Association Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah “Northern Boarder Challenges”, June 2005
- Speaker, American Immigration Lawyers Association Canada Continuing Legal Education Conference, Toronto, Canada “Nonimmigrant Visas at U.S. Consulates in Canada”, April, 2005
- Discussion Leader, AILA 2004 Global Immigration Summit “Thinking Beyond Borders” – New York, NY September 2004 “Citizenship Requirements”
- Speaker, Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto, Ontario, March 2003 “Border Crossing Issues”
- Speaker, Canadian Bar Association, Immigration Section, Toronto, Ontario, April 2000, 2002 “US Border Update”
- Author, After so much spent on security -- are we secure yet? Commentary, The Globe and Mail, (March 31,2004)
- Author, Is It a Documentary or Is It Entertainment? The I Visa and the Challenges Facing Canadian Media in American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Immigration Law Today, (January/February 2004)
- Author, Welcome to the Border, Commentary, The Globe and Mail, (March 7, 2003)
- Author, Online Update: Directory for Ports of Entry Along U.S Canada Border in Immigration Practice and Procedure Under NAFTA, Second Edition (August 2003)
- Author, Online Update: Directory for Ports of Entry Along U.S Canada Border in Immigration Practice and Procedure Under NAFTA, First Edition (2002)
- Author, Getting Serious about Crossing-border: Immigration Procedures. Mobility Magazine, (March 2002);
- Author, The Hidden Penalty: How a Criminal Conviction Affects Entering the United States. Mobility Magazine, (July 2000)
- Author, Walking the Thin Line into the United States. Mobility Magazine, (June 2000)
- Author, Work Issues for Cross Border North American Neighbor. Mobility Magazine, (May 2000)
- Author, Legally Speaking regular column in HiTech Career Journal (1999-2001)
- Author, “Environmental Refugees”, chapter in The International Aspects of Natural and Industrial Catastrophes. David D. Caron & Charles H. Leben, eds., The Hague Academy of International Law: Martinus Nijhoff (September, 2000)
- Author, “Transferring Employees to the United States: Avoiding Border Crossing Hassles”, chapter in Cross-Border Employee Transfers: A Complete Guide and Update for Human Resource Managers and their Counsel, published by Insight Press (December 1999)
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