Lecturer Bios
Eugene Glicksman
Eugene J. Glicksman has been a full-time husband since 1984, and took on the
added responsibilities of fatherhood in 1989. When not engaged in these pursuits, he is an
attorney who has devoted the major portion of his practice to the field of immigration and
nationality law for over thirty years. His partner in the firm of Glicksman & Cardoso is Patricia
Cardoso, a former General Attorney with the “Legacy” Immigration & Naturalization Service.
Mr. Glicksman has lectured on immigration and nationality law at seminars conducted
by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the New York County Lawyers' Association
and the World Trade Institute. He has been a guest lecturer to students of immigration and
nationality law at Fordham University School of Law and New York City College (C.U.N.Y.),
and has appeared before industry trade groups and on radio.
Mr. Glicksman received his B.A. from Brooklyn College/CUNY and his J.D. from
Brooklyn Law School. He is admitted to the bars of the State of New York, the United States
District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, the Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Glicksman is the Co-Chair of
NYCLA’s Committee on Immigration and Nationality Law since 2007, having previously served
as Chair from 1994 to 1997 and from 2002 to 2006. A member of the New York Chapter of
the American Immigration Lawyers Association, he is the former Chapter Treasurer (1993-
1994) and former Co-Chair of the Vermont Service Center Liaison Committee (1995-1996),
among other positions held. He is also a member of the New York State Bar Association.
Mr. Glicksman is cited in Marquis’ Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in America, and
Who’s Who in the World, and has been awarded a 10.0 “Superb” rating by AVVO.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Glicksman worked as an Immigration Inspector for
the “Legacy” Immigration & Naturalization Service at John F. Kennedy International Airport
from 1976 to 1980.
Linda Kenepaske
Linda Kenepaske has been practicing immigration law in New York City for more than
20 years.
She handles all types of immigration cases, including family and employment based
immigrant and non-immigrant visas, naturalization matters and removal defense. She
is currently chair of the Immigration and Nationality Law Committee of the Bar of the
City of New York. Ms. Kenepaske is also very active in the American
Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) on both the local and national levels. She
lectures frequently on immigration topics before bar associations.
George A. Terezakis, Esq.
Mr. Terezakis grew up in Commack, New York and went on to attend the State University of New York at Buffalo. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, with a B.A. in Political Science in 1982. Thereafter, he attended the University at Buffalo School of Law, from which he graduated, with honors, in 1985, and by which he was awarded the annual “Law Faculty Award.”
Mr. Terezakis’s study of international relations while in college led him to become involved in the Central American human rights movement during the 1980’s and 1990’s. He traveled to Nicaragua and El Salvador with human rights delegations and worked with the Non-governmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvador, in El Salvador, during the fall of 1989.
For more than 30 years, Mr. Terezakis has proudly served as an advocate for members of Long Island’s Hispanic Community and has earned a reputation as a tireless and effective litigator, whose practice is concentrated in the areas of: criminal and deportation defense, family based immigration, asylum, and the interplay between criminal and immigration law.
Mr. Terezakis is the current Chair of the Immigration Law Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association, and serves as the Co-Chair of the Association of Deportation Defense Attorneys. He was past President of the Nassau County Criminal Courts Bar Association, and has served on the Board of Directors of the N.Y.S. Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, as well as on the Board of Directors of the Immigration Law Section of the Federal Bar Association. He received the Nassau County Criminal Courts Bar Association’s Practitioner of the Year Award in 2013; the Long Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s 2011 Community Advocate of the Year award; and also received an award from the Central American Refugee Center for his pro bono work on behalf of Long Island’s immigrant community.
As a result of his expertise in the field of criminal-immigration law, Mr. Terezakis frequently lectures at continuing legal education programs sponsored by the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Federal Bar Association, the Nassau and Suffolk Bar Associations, New York County Lawyers Association and the New York City Bar Association. For many years now, Mr. Terezakis has trained members of the criminal defense bar in the critical importance of ascertaining, and reviewing, with their non-citizen clients, the direct immigration consequences of any proposed plea agreement, and on strategies for avoiding deportation. Since 2010, after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Padilla v. Kentucky, many defense attorneys seek Mr. Terezakis’s guidance to ensure their compliance with their obligation under Padilla.
Mr. Terezakis is fluent in Spanish and frequently travels throughout Latin America.
Reported Decisions:
- Dickson v. Ashcroft, 346 F 3d 44 (2d Cir. 2003)
- In re Jurado-Delgado, 24 I&N Dec 29 (BIA 2007)
