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: Legal Pad | LAImmigration attorney Cheri Attix with human rights award
By Jason Siegel
San Diego immigration attorney Cheri Attix will receive the George Falk Human Rights Champion Award, the San Diego Source reported.
Attix has represented over 200 asylum seekers since opening her private practice in 1997. She'll receive the aware on Feb. 24.
The award is given annually by Survivors of Torture, International - a San Diego non-profit that provides psychological, medical and case management services to survivors of politically motivated torture.
Attix served on the organization's board of directors from 1998-2003.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on February 06, 2008 (boomark / email).
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