Jaime Farrant

Farrant PLLC provides legal advice and consultation in US family and business based immigration law.

Provide leadership, strategic planning and management to efforts in the legal, social services, language access and immigrant communities. Assure organizational financial integrity and compliance with all requirements. Lead development efforts that improved the organization’s financial health by more than $200,000. Craft proposals for all the organization’s programs. 2013 Recipient of American University’s Goldman Grossman Award, for dedicated service to Latin American community.

• Research and analyze Arizona legislative measures. • Draft bilingual updates and educational materials on monitored initiatives. • Serve as registered organizational lobbyist before the Arizona legislature. • Provide expert immigration and civil rights policy analysis to media outlets. • File administrative complaints on behalf of victims of civil rights abuses. • Regular public speaker on state immigration enforcement issues.

Responsible for designing, managing and budgeting the program, as well as operational and staffing plans for the office. • Recruited legal, psychological and investigative team to manage cases of child abuse and trafficking in persons. • Responsible for establishing and developing relationships with governmental and non governmental organizations. •

• Established and directed country office after conducting expansive survey to identify potential case law areas and partners. • Crafted strategic and business plans, budget, costs and security program to protect potential risk to staff and avoid unnecessary danger. • Recruited legal, social and investigative team and managed active cases of child sexual abuse. • Interacted directly with victims, family members and government authorities. •Contributed to the placement of victims in shelters.

• Progressed from legal intern to special counsel for interventions before assuming lead counsel position for Latin America, providing legal advice and representation in international matters on issues like property rights, illegal detention, human trafficking, child sexual abuse, street children, human rights abuses and oppression. • Engaged in fund-raising activities to support development of IJM offices. •Responsible for studying and analyzing the region, and identifying potential opportunities.

• Represented government agencies in the preparation of bids, contract exemptions, requests for proposals and civil litigation. • Participated in meetings with public corporation officers and directors to discuss administrative, procurement and contract issues. • Conducted legal research on various matters such as terminations for convenience, approvals of change orders, requests for extensions and payments, differing site conditions, force majeure, culpa in contrahendo and claims of expropiation.

• Conducted legal research on corporate and tax law. • Drafted motions, memoranda, private contracts and other legal documents, among them, articles of incorporation, corporate bylaws and shareholder agreements for business and not-for-profit entities.