Lea Webb, one of the founding members of Webb & Pillich, is a mother, wife and attorney who has lived in the Cincinnati-area since 1992. She is licensed in Kentucky and practices immigration law.
Lea is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Law. In 2001, she was among the first graduates who completed a joint J.D. and M.A. with the university’s Center for Women’s Studies and was awarded the faculty award for Outstanding Woman Graduate. Before entering the JD/MA program at UC, Lea was a buyer for Mercantile Stores Co. She graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky in 1992, with a bachelor’s degree in Government.
Before going into private practice, Lea worked as a staff attorney for Legal Aid of the Bluegrass (LAB). Upon completion of her JD/MA, she was awarded a fellowship by the National Association of Public Interest Law (NAPIL, now Equal Justice Works). In the two year fellowship, Lea designed and implemented a program for LAB providing an array of much needed legal services to immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and trafficking in persons.
Lea still works on issues surrounding immigrant victims of crime through the battered women’s shelters, rape crisis programs, and Legal Services offices in Cincinnati and Kentucky and through the YWCA and the Kentucky Domestic Violence Association.
Lea is an advocate for immigrants through the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) as well as the National Lawyers Guild’s National Immigration Project.
Lea frequently presents at community invitations and continuing legal education seminars in regards to immigration, immigrant family law matters and language accessibility.
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NEWS:
- January, 22, 2010: Lea Webb will be presenting at the Kentucky Domestic Violence Association on January 22, 2010. The day of training is called: Eliminating The Language Barrier: Strategies for Language Accessibility.
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 from
10 AM - 3 PM. This workshop will discuss the responsibilities of recipients of federal funds to provide language assistance and meaningful access to non-English speakers, strategies to ensure language assistance while keeping maintaining expertise and how to manage an interpreted session. We will also discuss the role of the interpreter during the provision of services and the necessary components of a language accessibility plan. Please see http://www.kdva.org for details or to register.
- March, 14, 2010: Lea Webb will be participating in a presentation for Immigration Reform on March 14, 2010 from 1:00-2:45. The event is at Xavier University, Bellarmine Chapel, Cincinnati and open to the public. Download the event flyer. (72 kb pdf file)
- July 2010: Lea Webb has been invited to lead a panel of attorneys and government representatives at the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Conference in July 2010. The conference will be held in the Washington, D.C. area. Lea will be sharing her guidance as a long-time practitioner of immigration under the Violence Against Women Act.
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