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Clinical Fellow

Biography

Marlee McCadden is an attorney whose work focuses on direct services representation and advocacy for immigrants. Marlee McCadden is the Clinical Fellow for the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services (CARES) where she co-teaches the clinic seminar and supervises student advocates working on immigration legal services.

McCadden is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and admitted to practice in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She has served as the Advocacy Liaison and Co-Asylum Liaison for the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Prior to her work with CARES, McCadden served as a staff attorney at HIAS Pennsylvania, specializing in removal defense and humanitarian forms of relief. She is a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law, where she was an Eve Biskind Klothen Law Student Pro Bono Distinction Award Recipient.

Practice Experience

• Removal Defense & Asylum Staff Attorney, HIAS Pennsylvania
• Clinic Student, Federal Litigation and Appeals Clinic – Philadelphia, PA
• Legal Intern, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center – El Paso, TX
• Co-op Legal Intern, HIAS PA –ÌýPhiladelphia, PA
• Legal Intern, Ferreira Law – Philadelphia, PA
• Legal Intern, Esperanza Immigration Legal Services – Philadelphia, PA

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