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Julia Alonzo

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Julia Alonzo is the Litigation Department Legal Director.  She works closely with the department’s co-chairs to manage its business and operations, and works with the entire department to execute on its strategic plan.  As a long-time Proskauer lawyer, and an accomplished member of its Litigation Department,  Julia has taken on an additional firm-wide leadership role that focuses on building a community that  provides fair opportunities for women attorneys across all departments and at all stages of their careers.

Julia also serves on the Firm’s Hiring Committee and Summer Program Committee.

Until 2024, Julia was a Senior Counsel in Proskauer’s Litigation Department, with a focus on securities, corporate governance, and restructuring litigation.

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News sources have widely reported that beginning in 2019, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) began expelling from the United States immigrant women who recently gave birth, as well as their U.S. citizen infants.  These actions were part of the former administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, which, among other things, intentionally separated thousands of families at the border.  Regardless of any right to asylum, these women were expelled from the country days after giving birth.  Even though their U.S-born children would have been U.S. citizens, many mothers were not even given birth certificates for their children.  Making matters worse, these women were often forced into dangerous conditions, having to sleep in shelters or on the streets in Mexico with their newborns.