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Zool Suleman, the founder of Suleman & Co., is a graduate of Dalhousie Law School (1989) and served as a Law Clerk at the Federal Court of Canada (Appeal Division) in 1990-91. He articled with a national law firm before establishing his own firm (1992).
Mr. Suleman is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia, the Canadian Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the American Immigration Lawyers' Association. He has extensive experience in Canadian immigration law matters and restricts his practice to this area of law.
He has organized seminars, made presentations, and published papers on various immigration topics for the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia, the Canadian Bar Association (at the National and the Regional level), Amnesty International, Insight Seminars, and the American Immigration Lawyers' Association (at the National level). He has also presented talks on immigration and social justice issues at the University of British Columbia Law School and at the University of Windsor Department of Communications.
Mr. Suleman is often called upon to comment on Canadian Immigration topics and has done so for regional, national and international media outlets.
In addition to his immigration interests, Mr. Suleman has been active in supporting and arts and multicultural activities. He has served on the Boards of several arts organizations and from 1991-1996 was the Editor of the arts journal - Rungh (www.rungh.org). He is a founding member and Director of the MARU Society (www.maruworld.org [1]) and is a member of the research team at MARU's stop racial profiling project (www.stopracialprofiling.ca [2]).
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Canadian Bar Association [6]
Suleman & Co., has been a member of the Canadian Bar Association since 1992.
Zool Suleman has been an active member of the CBA, both in British Columbia
and Nationally. He has organized and participated in many CBA conferences
dealing with Canadian Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship law matters.
As the Canadian Bar Association site states:
"The CBA is the essential ally
and advocate of all members of the legal profession; it is the voice for all
members of the profession and its primary purpose is to serve its members;
it is the premier provider of personal and professional development and
support to all members of the legal profession; it promotes fair justice
systems, facilitates effective law reform, promotes equality in the legal
profession and is devoted to the elimination of discrimination; the CBA is a
leading edge organization committed to enhancing the professional and
commercial interests of a diverse membership and to protecting the
independence of the judiciary and the Bar.
The Canadian Bar Association is a professional, voluntary organization which
was formed in 1896, and incorporated by a Special Act of Parliament on April
15, 1921. Today, the Association represents some 35,000 lawyers, judges,
notaries, law teachers, and law students from across Canada. Approximately
two-thirds of all practicing lawyers in Canada belong to the CBA."
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American Immigration Lawyers Association, Canada Chapter [10]
Suleman & Co. has been a member of AILA since 1996. While Suleman & Co.
restricts its practice to Canadian Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship law
matters, it provides assistance to AILA member lawyers and to many Citizens
of the USA (individuals and companies) who wish to live, work, study, and
immigrate to Canada. In 1999, Zool Suleman presented a paper on Canadian
Immigration law issues at the National AILA Conference held in Seattle,
Washington, USA.
AILA is one of the primary lawyers associations advocating for the interests
of immigrants in the USA.
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